Re: [meteorite-list] Fake moon and mars meteorite NWA's

2012-06-07 Thread Rob McCafferty
Hi list I would like to thank everyone for this informative thread. I have not bought any lunar/martian meteorites for quite a few years now but as the owner of a decent collection of planetaries, bought from a small number reputable dealers whom you will all know well that i(we) trust

Re: [meteorite-list] Paris Hammer Stone?

2011-10-11 Thread Rob McCafferty
The photo to me looks promising. Would like to see a closeup of it. Mike G. yes, this one appears to be genuine. No fantastical claims, just a rock in the loft and it looks like the real deal at this first glance Rob McC __ Visit the Archives

Re: [meteorite-list] FWD from Mike Farmer - Robbery in Kenya

2011-10-10 Thread Rob McCafferty
A horrifying story. Glad you're ok Mike. Best regards and stay safe. Rob McC __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Sedimentay Rocks: Where are they?

2011-03-21 Thread Rob McCafferty
Walter, There is also the intriguing possibility that they may be rather hard to spot after they land. Once the crust has weathered, they may look almost identical to terrestrial sedimentary rocks. It's a strange idea but there must also be earth meteorites lying around but none in our

Re: [meteorite-list] The Human Presence in the Solar System

2011-03-21 Thread Rob McCafferty
The nature of this list means that I am certainly preaching to the converted but I'll have my say anyway. Research and discovery for it's own sake is uniquely human. It is true that it costs a lot of money but we all know it's very little in the grand scheme. As a gross oversimplification of

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Unique Meteorite

2011-01-30 Thread Rob McCafferty
Arrgh! I am such a grammar nazi! It cannot be very unique. It's either unique or it isn't. I'm so very, very sorry. Please beat me around the head with a set of clubs for being such an appalling pedant. Rob McC --- On Sun, 30/1/11, Ruben Garcia mrmeteor...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ruben

Re: [meteorite-list] Organics on Mars

2011-01-13 Thread Rob McCafferty
The problem with these data is that the Atacama Desert is considered to be a sterile environment with no microbes in the soil as well. You can have organics but that's nowhere near the same as having life. So they have proved that there may be organics in the perchlorate rich soil of mars, just

Re: [meteorite-list] Fossils on Mars?

2010-05-05 Thread Rob McCafferty
Xeno biology If life ever began on Mars, I believe that it will still be there. The climate cannot have changed quickly enough to extinguish microbial life and it should thrive there not just cling on to existence. I accept that the magnetite found in martian fossils could be a local

Re: [meteorite-list] Christian Anger

2010-01-16 Thread Rob McCafferty
I am deeply saddened by the death of Christian Anger. I had dealings with him several times and donated mineral samples to him on a couple of occasions and found him to be a kind and generous man. My fondest regards go to his family at this time. Rob McCafferty

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Self-Pairing = No-No!

2009-11-12 Thread Rob McCafferty
Greg Wrote I am very passionate about what I do and try to keep it as accurate as possible. When games and fraud is perpetrated by those who do not care about the science or collectors, I get upset and tend to be vocal. If I seem too quick to reply, or type a single word in haste or anger, I

Re: [meteorite-list] Big Bang Origin Of The Moon (Tektite Related)

2009-10-28 Thread Rob McCafferty
Can somebody please explain to me two things? 1: How does this sort of crap get published 2: Why anybody thinks that publishing it is helpful when we live in a world of idiots who only believe things that can be explained in less than 30 seconds. Rob McC --- On Thu, 10/29/09, Michael Groetz

Re: [meteorite-list] Risk assessment of Tunguska class events

2009-09-29 Thread Rob McCafferty
I too, would love to read the document when it's ready. I always think this sort of thing is like trying to work out the odds of you winning a raffle. You may have some sort of idea how many people are entering it but you're really just guessing. Am I the only one who feels uneasy that some

Re: [meteorite-list] Orange Dust

2009-09-24 Thread Rob McCafferty
- From: Rob McCafferty rob_mccaffe...@yahoo.com To: Phil Whitmer prairiecac...@rtcol.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:56 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Orange Dust Yeah, I made this mental link too, although I hear the dust over cities

Re: [meteorite-list] OT - Gold Hoard Found in England

2009-09-24 Thread Rob McCafferty
It's also worth pointing out that UK law is generally pretty generous regarding prospecting. If you own the land, anything you find on it belongs to you. The exceptions are Gold and Silver. If you find them, either as mineral deposits or as relics, they are automatically owned by the Crown

Re: [meteorite-list] Orange Dust

2009-09-23 Thread Rob McCafferty
No, it's the DNA of space aliens delivered by panspermia, just like that red dust found in india a while back. (or more likely, what you said, something they never noticed before or what Sterling said...which I think is what the alien DNA truned out to be in India) --- On Wed, 9/23/09,

Re: [meteorite-list] Orange Dust

2009-09-23 Thread Rob McCafferty
Yeah, I made this mental link too, although I hear the dust over cities in Australia is red, isn't it? That, also is known to come from the outback desert. I remember as a child, dust form the Sahara being blown up to Northern Europe. I even remember seening it on the headlights of a car that

Re: [meteorite-list] Credit where credit is more than due

2009-09-21 Thread Rob McCafferty
I too, have nothing but good things to say about Eric. When I first got into meteorites, I bought a lunar (DaG400) and a martian (SaU008) from him. These are both major outlays for a noob and I(partly due to dyslexia) entered his paypal address incorrectly. He was patient, understanding,

Re: [meteorite-list] Idle speculation on panspermia

2009-09-21 Thread Rob McCafferty
I agree, at least in part. Panspermia may not be the motivation to explore Europa and in truth, a decent sub-surface examination of that world will require a far greater commitment than $4Bn. The NEO programme needs a far greater commitment, as does any programme to counter such a threat that

Re: [meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!

2009-09-19 Thread Rob McCafferty
      To me---believing that all life has originated here on Earth and then spread out from here is like saying that the Earth is still the center of the solar system or Universe. Andwe don't believe that anymore, now do we?? That is not what Mark said and to imply that he did is

[meteorite-list] cooling rate of irons. drifting to Planetary atmospheres

2009-09-08 Thread Rob McCafferty
) rather than 1 of 4. Rob McC --- On Tue, 9/8/09, Darren Garrison cyna...@charter.net wrote: From: Darren Garrison cyna...@charter.net Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Slow cooling rate of irons in space To: Rob McCafferty rob_mccaffe...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 4:22 AM

[meteorite-list] Venus, Earth and Widmanstatten lines

2009-09-07 Thread Rob McCafferty
of irons in space To: Rob McCafferty rob_mccaffe...@yahoo.com, meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 5:21 AM Hi, Venus they're not sure about. One thing I think we can be sure about is that no one will ever use the phrase so darn cold about Venus, as we

Re: [meteorite-list] Slow cooling rate of irons in space

2009-09-05 Thread Rob McCafferty
The so darn cold thing refers to objects not being lit/heated by their star. Day sides will heat up until they radiate more heat than they absorb. Night sides will cool as quickly as physics (and any atmosphere) allows. If one face of Mars stayed pointing at the sun all the time, it would be

Re: [meteorite-list] the chemistry of the universe

2009-09-02 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: How many unknown minerals, and chemicals have we yet to discover? We're assuming that everything is pretty much the same throughout the universe chemically. I ask you this. How can we state that unequivocally? We can't..

Re: [meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted

2009-08-28 Thread Rob McCafferty
That is just hogwash in my opinion---the Drake Equation proves that life MUST exist elsewhere. ERRMM! So what happens to the result if just one of the many factors happens to have a value of zero? __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted

2009-08-27 Thread Rob McCafferty
47 Intelligence at the Human Level Is Rare Yes, it seems to be pretty rare on earth as well __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted

2009-08-27 Thread Rob McCafferty
From: Becky and Kirk ba...@chorus.net Seems to me that the Mars rovers have pretty much proved that at one time Mars probably supported life based on their findings and observations Really? I don't see that at all. Maybe it was the way you worded it but it being damper there 4Ga ago than

Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Farmer Eats Moon Mars Rocks!

2009-08-16 Thread Rob McCafferty
Nothing unusual about this. My first ever meteorite was a 25mg piece of Dhofar 1084. Tasting it was one of the first things I did. I don't recal ever having tasted a martian though it is a distinct possibility and I was thoroughly underwhelmed by the experience. I can tell you that eucrite

Re: [meteorite-list] Gotta love freedom of speech

2009-07-25 Thread Rob McCafferty
-list] Gotta love freedom of speech To: Rob McCafferty rob_mccaffe...@yahoo.com Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 8:25 PM Hi Rob, List, No need for any apology at all... You've said what's on your mind and I've said what many wanted to say but were

[meteorite-list] Gotta love freedom of speech

2009-07-24 Thread Rob McCafferty
I go away for a couple of weeks and suddenly I have to spend nearly an hour deleting vitriol. While I do not agree with any form of censorship in a public forum, with that liberty comes responsibility. A community can only exist while people benefit from it. It is important that fraud is

Re: [meteorite-list] Shuttle Carry

2009-06-18 Thread Rob McCafferty
to the pilot. Rob McCafferty --- On Thu, 6/18/09, Sterling K. Webb sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Sterling K. Webb sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Shuttle Carry To: cdtuc...@cox.net, Simon sbdeb...@wightman.ca, meteoritelist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] When the Moon hits your eye like a really, really, really big pizza pie

2009-06-16 Thread Rob McCafferty
Seriously, I'm in the wrong job. I've spent much of the last year putting together a mission to Mars game for our school. You can select individual crew members. For example, one is from the Kashmir region of India, one of her languages is a local dialect and her name is a traditional

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Re: When the Moon hits your eye like a really, really, really big pizza pie

2009-06-16 Thread Rob McCafferty
IMCA 5829 Rob McCafferty rob_mccaffe...@yahoo.com wrote: Seriously, I'm in the wrong job. I've spent much of the last year putting together a mission to Mars game for our school. You can select individual crew members. For example, one is from the Kashmir region

Re: [meteorite-list] Panspermia and Mars back contamination

2009-06-05 Thread Rob McCafferty
On a more realistic note...(though I applaud the jocularity) The whole fear that return samples from Mars, either by robotic mission or manned, seems thoroughly irrational to me. The very idea that a microbe that MAY exist on present day Mars that will have spent 3 Aeons adapting to a cold,

Re: [meteorite-list] A question????? another answer

2009-06-05 Thread Rob McCafferty
This is a recurrent theme, one I am interested in myself and when I first joined this list I heard a lot of really good stuff but never saved the mails. Earth vs lunar is quite easy to nail down. The geology of lunar meteorites tend to be rather similar despite different physical appearances.

Re: [meteorite-list] When is a fall...?

2009-04-27 Thread Rob McCafferty
Falls are surely when recoverable material makes it to the surface. It would be classified as a find if material is recovered but the fireball was not witnessed. This suggests serendipitous discovery but is obviously not always the case (Antarctica and hot desert finds are the result of

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion. Part 2 UAE, Shock wave distribution proto Solar System

2009-04-11 Thread Rob McCafferty
Great postings Elton. They take the whole discussion to a far greater level and I fo one applaud you for it. I like to think there are others that appreciate it and thin this is what this list should be about. As an addition to what you say I will say the following. The short half life of

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion.

2009-04-07 Thread Rob McCafferty
is big enough, (which provides enough radioactive material to generate the heat AND enough lying over the middle to prevent the heat escaping, the body will melt... How big is big enough? Eric Rob McCafferty wrote: Hi Eric You are correct in thinking that electrostatics

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion.

2009-04-06 Thread Rob McCafferty
Hi Eric You are correct in thinking that electrostatics causes the initial clumping. The early sun would have been extremely energetic and X-ray and UV radiation would produce electro static charging of small particles. Once they begin to clump to a sufficient size, they will attract particles

Re: [meteorite-list] Artificial Lunar Meteorites?

2009-03-20 Thread Rob McCafferty
In response. Yes you could do that though I don't think it'd be of any scientific significance to do so. The initial impulse required to eject rocks with enough speed to get to earth may produce some shock effects in the rock. You may prefer to use rockets if you wanted pristine rocks so

Re: [meteorite-list] WEST TEXAS METEORITE HUNT

2009-03-03 Thread Rob McCafferty
wow, what a great site. Thanks for the link Rob --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Michael Johnson mich...@spacerocksinc.com wrote: From: Michael Johnson mich...@spacerocksinc.com Subject: [meteorite-list] WEST TEXAS METEORITE HUNT To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Tuesday,

Re: [meteorite-list] FOR THE RECORD

2009-02-27 Thread Rob McCafferty
$100/g may seem pricey but then we are collectors of extraordinary (indeed, extraterrestrial) material. If commercial value is to be placed on such items, I think the rarity of such material would qualify it as more valuable than they actually sell for. Out of interest, just how much do dealers

Re: [meteorite-list] West Specimen for sale AD

2009-02-23 Thread Rob McCafferty
I thank everyone for their responses to my posting. I am also delighted with the clear and civil nature of the responses. It seems that my concern was largely misplaced. I have great respect for the hunters out there getting their hands dirty to feed my obsession and without doubt, science

[meteorite-list] Thanks

2009-02-23 Thread Rob McCafferty
Apologies if this is a repeat posting, I thought I sent one earlier today but it seems to be missing. Maybe the original will turn up later. Many thanks to those who have replied to my mail and as so often, I was not in full posession of the facts. In light of that, I'm delighted I to find I

Re: [meteorite-list] West Specimen for sale AD

2009-02-22 Thread Rob McCafferty
I don't know if I'm the only person who feels this or not. I personally felt that the offering of this new material before it was officially classified was distasteful. Collectors are constantly being branded as bounty hunters or treasure seekers. Surely, all collectors can see that to

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball dynamics questions:

2009-02-19 Thread Rob McCafferty
Here's what I know 1a. Speed of sound at sea level? 1500 meters per second? no, it's 340m/s 2. What is the approximate maximum distance a ground observer can see fireballs over the horizon as limited by the curvature of the earth? my memory also says 250 miles I remember

Re: [meteorite-list] What are the top 10 most scientificallyimportant meteorites?

2009-02-14 Thread Rob McCafferty
Many people have put a lot of thought into this question. I can't promise to provide 10 but I do have a few suggestions Ensischeim must top the list as being the first undisputed from outer space. Canyon Diablo for it's influence in the acceptance that cataclysmic impacts can occur on earth

Re: [meteorite-list] What are the top 10 most scientificallyimportant meteorites?

2009-02-14 Thread Rob McCafferty
An adept postulate most erudite in its expression. I could not have put it better myself. Rob McC (I'm assuming that anyone not needing a dictionary for the above will realise I'm not being sarcastic) --- On Sun, 2/15/09, Sterling K. Webb sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From:

Re: [meteorite-list] Fairly odd meteorites...

2009-02-07 Thread Rob McCafferty
The first photo on the list looked wierd and certainly looked oily in patches. As a lifelong skeptic, my answer to what do I think would be that this was a premature April 1st joke. Serious answers would be a: If it really is oozing something, I've no idea what it could be b: following from

[meteorite-list] Space related but OT. Ice ages

2009-02-07 Thread Rob McCafferty
I found this and I thought it was pretty interesting. For those who don't believe in the global warming bull we're being fed, it's hugely affirming. It makes interesting reading anyway, particularly the statement that the earth cooled by 0.7deg last year. http://www.dailygal axy.com/my_

Re: [meteorite-list] Green spot in chondrite

2009-02-01 Thread Rob McCafferty
Wow. Very interesting. I have no idea but memories of the microscope scene in the Satan Bug spring to mind. --- On Sun, 2/1/09, bernd.pa...@paulinet.de bernd.pa...@paulinet.de wrote: From: bernd.pa...@paulinet.de bernd.pa...@paulinet.de Subject: [meteorite-list] Green spot in chondrite To:

[meteorite-list] Artifacts Embedded in Suevite Reported from Malaysia

2009-01-30 Thread Rob McCafferty
Stone tool artifacts discovered in suevite in Malaysia http://www.researchsea.com/html/article.php/aid/3937/cid/6/research/usm_archaeological_discovery_can_change_world_history.html?PHPSESSID=b8204aec6f223e9ca02c1eae347bf168 An interesting article but maybe someone can explain to me how a

[meteorite-list] Bush, Obama, the alien perspective and a bit of science, too

2009-01-20 Thread Rob McCafferty
I apologise for adding to this contentious issue but as a British subject, I feel appropriate to make a few points 1: Yes, Mike. I think you're right, most of the rest of the world accepts Barak Obama with open arms. There can be no denying that most of the rest of the world thought Bush Jr.

Re: [meteorite-list] Is there smelly life out there?

2009-01-15 Thread Rob McCafferty
I share your skeptism, Mark. I thought it had already been established that X-ray and UV dissociation of CO2 and H2O could be the source of the carbon and hydrogen in the martian atmosphere that could also produce methane in the minute quantities. Oh, sorry...that won't sell newspapers, will

Re: [meteorite-list] Rock and roll on Mars

2009-01-15 Thread Rob McCafferty
This is a wonderful explanation. It is incredibly simple but almost certainly right. I have seen a similar effect on the windswept beaches of the Western Isles. OK, we're only talkin about a few feet but you get a similar effect (before the tide comes in and wipes it clean). Often I have seen

Re: [meteorite-list] Comet smashes triggered ancient famine ???

2009-01-10 Thread Rob McCafferty
This is not a new idea. Mike Baille's book Exodus to Arthur makes interesting reading on the idea that comets may have triggered many human catastrophies in the past. His book is based on dendochronology with support from other sources. At the time of publishing c.2000, there was a gap in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Comet smashes triggered ancient famine ???

2009-01-10 Thread Rob McCafferty
be long gone! The Earth's orbital velocity is about 30 km/s and its diameter is about 12,750 km. So the Earth moves its diameter in about 425 seconds. If the comet pieces were farther apart than that, only one piece would hit. Larry On Sat, January 10, 2009 4:06 pm, Rob McCafferty wrote

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad New Canadian Meteorite for sale

2008-12-06 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- On Sat, 12/6/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I highly doubt it will be in Tucson, if it is then it is illegal, and I would not touch it. India doesnt scare me much, but Canada sent people to Tokyo two years back to look for fossils. They don't play games. Michael

Re: [meteorite-list] Argentine Campo Investigation

2008-11-20 Thread Rob McCafferty
So it appear that it is true. If Eric can be accused then we must all be pirates. Please excuse me while I jet off to Somalia to hijack another oil tanker. Cordially Rob McC --- On Thu, 11/20/08, Eric Twelker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eric Twelker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [meteorite-list] Million Dollar Fake Meteorite Bust

2008-11-04 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Million Dollar Fake Meteorite Bust That story makes absolutely no sense as presented. There must either be some mistake an translating the currency ($4.5

Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life - shame on NASA

2008-11-03 Thread Rob McCafferty
that. As a UK citizen, I'm not footing the bill) Rob McCafferty --- On Tue, 11/4/08, Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life - shame on NASA To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Tuesday, November 4

Re: [meteorite-list] Tangible assets

2008-10-13 Thread Rob McCafferty
I agree. Meteorites are tangible and the market will recover at some point. Whatever their value in $/£/Y/Euro/etc following the recovery, meteorites will retain their market value. A £1000 piece of moon rock will be worth its equivalent, whether that is $10 or $100,000 following the recovery

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites 'Cause Volcanic Eruptions'

2008-09-11 Thread Rob McCafferty
Quote the following lines: Volcanic eruptions occur when the gas, which arrived when the world was in a molten state and is trapped in the deep Earth, melts Prof Ballentine and his team also identified a second signature, obtained via studying CO2 gas from the Colorado Plateau, which is

Re: [meteorite-list] A question about Antarctica vs Alaska meteorite hunting.

2008-07-25 Thread Rob McCafferty
I highly recommend the book Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica - A personal account by William A. Cassidy. It goes into all sorts of technical stuff and the whole history and difficulty of the operations but is also a corking good read. My personal favourite anecdote involves 2 grad students and

Re: [meteorite-list] A million $ rock on eBay

2008-07-19 Thread Rob McCafferty
If, as quoted in the description, a picture is worth a thousand words, you'd imagine them putting a better picture. Mind you, with perfectly rectangular clasts, that's got to be a one off :P I could find a thousand words to describe it. I'd just need to look up rubbish and all its synonyms in a

Re: [meteorite-list] A million $ rock on eBay

2008-07-19 Thread Rob McCafferty
meteorite is posted on here, there is an uproar, tons of interest. When a real new meteorite or a fall is posted, the silence is most often deafening. Michael Farmer --- On Sat, 7/19/08, Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] Asteroid Deflection Research Center Established at Iowa State

2008-05-30 Thread Rob McCafferty
Hmmm! This seems like a bad idea. Have they not seen Superman 2? hehe --- On Thu, 5/29/08, Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [meteorite-list] Asteroid Deflection Research Center Established at Iowa State To: Meteorite Mailing List

Re: [meteorite-list] Phoenix Lander and Mars Colors

2008-05-28 Thread Rob McCafferty
Red is present. In the terms of light, Yellow is a 50/50 mix of red and green. So strictly speaking you'd only need colours on your calibration to perform your tests. A green filter would eliminate red from the yellow. A Red filter would eliminate the green. I suspect they used blue because pure

Re: [meteorite-list] comet/asteroid classification

2008-05-22 Thread Rob McCafferty
It's a simple case of the terminology being outdated. The term comet dates back to Aristotle and the name means star with hair in Greek. A lovely term that a child could sketch. The term Asteroid is much more recent (19th Century). The word means star shaped probably because that's how they

Re: [meteorite-list] Terrestrial meteorites on the Moon

2008-05-09 Thread Rob McCafferty
This is what I thought but Sterling did some hunting around and produced some numbers that I checked. Now I'm not sure of my maths but is seems to be the case that an object can leave the earth and hit the moon with only its escape velocity. At that speed the impact prssures are not enough to

Re: [meteorite-list] Superheavy element found in nature

2008-05-02 Thread Rob McCafferty
If this element is confirmed, even if it is 1:10^-12 ratio with thorium, I suspect supernova would be the source. These are found on earth and are not subject to quite so many cosmic rays That they are found in thorium, an already heavy element seems to suggest this may well be the case To

[meteorite-list] Mars climate (slightly OT)

2008-04-24 Thread Rob McCafferty
Following an email I recieved about Mars' climate in the past, I recalled an article I read some time ago. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html For those of you who suspect that all this talk of global warming is just a good excuse to tax us for not freezing

Re: [meteorite-list] Book review of History of Meteoritics...

2008-04-23 Thread Rob McCafferty
Nice review.From it I am left with a sense of disbelief that many prominet scientists seemed to refuse to believe that rocks fell from the sky. I assume in the book there is a reference to Anaxogoras in ancient Greece who was the first to suggest thatvery thing...although Diogenes is the one

Re: [meteorite-list] Curious - what is the biggest (TKW) Martian Meteorite?

2008-04-23 Thread Rob McCafferty
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites states Zagami as the largest TKW at ~18,000g. Nakhla weighs in at ~10,000g and SaU--8 at 8579g. Though these data are somewhat old now, I don't think anything rivalling Zagami has arrived since 2001 Rob McC --- On Wed, 4/23/08, Michael Gilmer [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Curious - what is the biggest (TKW) Martian Meteorite?

2008-04-23 Thread Rob McCafferty
Apologies if this is a repeat post. Yahoo said it failed to send. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites lists the largest SNC as Zagami 18,000g Nakhla 10,000g SaU008 8579g The data goes back to 2002 but I don't think anything bigger than Zagami has arrived since Rob McC --- On Wed, 4/23/08,

Re: [meteorite-list] Futures Market for Meteorites?

2008-04-09 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- Michael Gilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be interesting if there was a futures market for meteorites? That would add some price stability... The nature of meteorites is not the same. The random nature of their arrival makes the whole thing unpredictable. Can you imagine

[meteorite-list] FAO Harald Stehlik, need your assistance

2008-03-04 Thread Rob McCafferty
Harald Please could you contact me off-list as a matter of urgency. In anticipation Best regards Rob McCafferty Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http

Re: [meteorite-list] Why doesn't Mars look like Mars?

2008-02-19 Thread Rob McCafferty
Can you direct me to the info showing the return data matching the shergottites? I was not aware of this (I have a young family and full time job, I cannot read it all). That, to me is fascinating evidence I was not aware of. My understanding was that SNC probably sample only two of sites on

Re: [meteorite-list] Re Aubrite

2008-02-05 Thread Rob McCafferty
Sorry, came to this discussion late. I agree, I think it is a meteorite and even I can see it looks like a CV3.? slice. The certificate with +ve test for nickel confused me. Do CV's contain nickel? I didn't think they did. --- Jason Utas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola Pete, All, It's a

Re: [meteorite-list] Being courteous

2008-02-04 Thread Rob McCafferty
In response to Moni's posting I post here when I want to ask a question. I've always found the responses well measured and reasoned. The ONLY exception was my fault and vowed not to do it again. Today I pontificate. I find people as I recieve them and this list has given friendships, despite

[meteorite-list] Mecurian Meteorite??? Don't think so

2008-01-23 Thread Rob McCafferty
Well, though I'd love angrites to be shown to be from Mercury but I've looked at some of the papers and they sit neatly within the CV3 realm for oxygen isotope and thermal metamorphosing of CV3 seems to give a pretty good approximation of angrites. I suspect angrites are not from Mercury (though

Re: [meteorite-list] Holy Grail

2007-12-09 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- Peter A Shugar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My primary collection is Texas, of which I have 42. So for me the Holy Grail is any Texas that I don't have. As to your question, I only have 2 Martians NWA 998 and NWA 1195 and I can't decide which is my favorite. They both display very

Re: [meteorite-list] Peruvian Petrol prices

2007-10-04 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- Randall Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You paid the police a service fee for driving you out to the site in their 2 trucks. Gasoline is very expensive there. Four dollars $4 a gallon if I recall. I gotta move to Peru. That's about half the cost of gasoline in the UK at the

Re: [meteorite-list] Question about shock veins...?

2007-10-03 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- ensoramanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is...Could it be possible that the shock veins were produced as a direct result of the hypervelocity impact or is that not possibleare they much more likely to be formed in space during asteroid impacts. O. Richard Norton's

Re: [meteorite-list] Ancient bacteria could point to life on Mars

2007-08-29 Thread Rob McCafferty
Though I cling to my belief that Mars is a dead rock, the more time goes by the more I realise I know nothing. Still, it'd be nice to br right on something. This debate reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's books where a discovered microbe was declared probably terran. I seem to remember one of

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread Rob McCafferty
Meteor Crater is pretty much square. I believe weathering has a lot to do with it. Even a desert gets a fair bit of rain in 50,000 years. I think I read that the original crater has been half filled with weathered material though why it would be square following this is anyones guess. Why not (?)

Re: [meteorite-list] Searching for Earthites on the Moon

2007-08-27 Thread Rob McCafferty
More than a little ambitious if you ask me. This is assuming that any evidence isn't vapourised by the impact of such earthites hitting at a minimum of 2.?km/s and also assuming that such unmolested evidence is present wherever they intend to drill for it. They'd be better off waiting until the

Re: [meteorite-list] Study: Martian soil may contain life

2007-08-24 Thread Rob McCafferty
Hmmm! I thought Norman Pace a comedian famous for microwaving a cat? Brits, help me out. It'll be on Youtube somewhere. It's all very amusing (the life on Mars thing, not the stuff to do with cats) --- Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All, Not everybody likes this idea...

Re: [meteorite-list] MARS

2007-08-02 Thread Rob McCafferty
**Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye** . Someone needs to work on their geometry. Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo!

Re: [meteorite-list] Global warming? Blame Tunguska

2007-06-21 Thread Rob McCafferty
In a message dated 6/20/2007 3:51:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this 'NEO deflection technology' that is being developed, could it not potentially also be (technically at least) used to steer an impact to occur onto a 'foreign power's country'? perhaps even

Re: [meteorite-list] OCEANS ON MARS

2007-06-13 Thread Rob McCafferty
Fascinating article from both yourself and Ron. It left me thinking I could have thought of that if only I were a little bit smarter as I knew all the mechanisms involved. To see what is right in front of your face is a constant challenge Meanwhile, we can put a sedimentary Martian Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] OCEANS ON MARS

2007-06-13 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- samc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get more convinced as time passes, that we *will* find either active or fossil life forms on Mars in my lifetime. Don't kid yourself Mark, I think you'd get better money if you put it on Mars being proven to be a lifeless lump of rock and always

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrules and Their Origins

2007-06-13 Thread Rob McCafferty
Darren, You are my hero. I've been after something like this for months and dared not spend £50 on a book (it's a wife who doesn't understand the obsession thing). I will be eternally grateful. Rob McC A while back I found a book/collection of papers called Chondrules and Their Origins on

Re: [meteorite-list] Global Warming - Scientifically proven

2007-06-11 Thread Rob McCafferty
May I draw peoples attention to a couple of points. 1: Global warming is definitely taking place. There can be no doubt over this 2: There is absolutely no smoking gun suggesting it is our fault I'm happy to accept that we would be irresponsible to ignore the phenomena and we should take steps

Re: [meteorite-list] Arrow head found in box of Moroccan Meteoritefragments.

2007-06-09 Thread Rob McCafferty
This post simply underlines a theory I had presented to me 10 years ago, that global warming is just a phase. If as little as 13000 years ago, the sahara was watered grassland, and the sahara grew before industry, how likely that we are the influence of climate change? I do not work for Shell, BP,

[meteorite-list] Qui Nhon Slope Anomaly

2007-05-25 Thread Rob McCafferty
The Qui Nhon Slope Anomaly, proposed as the source of the Australian/Indonesian Tektites seems to be a rather elusive thing to obtain iformation on. Does anyone have access to this paper? Source of the Australasian tektite strewn field - A possible off-shore impact site Authors: Schnetzler,

Re: [meteorite-list] Kalahari 009 (lunar) photo

2007-04-18 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mah. MC Mah? Persian god of the moon and queen of the night __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Asteroid 3628 Bo�n�mcov� - research paper

2007-04-16 Thread Rob McCafferty
Hi list Does anyone have access to and/or able to get me a peek-a-boo at this article. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/arizona/maps/2006/0041/0008/art3 I'd really like to peruse this. On the face of it, it looks a potentially fascinating article. Every day I learn a little

Re: Asteroid 3628 Bo�n�mcov� - research paper

2007-04-16 Thread Rob McCafferty
Many thanks to Harald and David for getting me this paper. Is there nothing you guys cannot achieve. I will read it leisurly over a glass of wine tonight Rob McC --- David Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Rob, Attached is a pdf of this article. It will be public access via ADS

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite smugglers anger scientists

2007-04-16 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But they have alreay done that, I have been to the Natural History Museum in London at least 8 or 9 times, and complete many trades with them, much of it NWA material. I think this article may be somewhat misquoted or taken out of context.

[meteorite-list] Misrepresentation by the press

2007-04-16 Thread Rob McCafferty
Nomads don't know what they're selling? --- Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with that argument is that from the stories that the people who go to Morocco tell, those nomads aren't nearly as clueless as the article writer claims that they are. They may have been at

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