[meteorite-list] Meteorite Category Chart (Spring 2006 update) available online

Anyone wanting a PDF copy of my latest update (Spring 2006) can download it from http://notsafe.org/Meteteorite Categories SP06.pdf Dale __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] new eucrite NWA 3159

Hello friends, today arrived my slice of NWA3159 I got from Greg Hupe. WOW, this is one of the best eucrites I have ever seen. Best regards Hanno Strufe Langenbergstrasse 32 66954 Pirmasens Germany IMCA # 4267 www.strufe.net __ Meteorite-list mailing

[meteorite-list] MeteoriteTimes Mystery Meteorite - April answer

Hello all, For those interested, the answer for the April quiz can be found at: http://www.meteoriteimpact.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=295 All the best, Frank __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Cometshop

Marcin Cimala - PolandMET wrote: Hi What happend to Cometshop of Sergey Afanasjev ? Maybe they're too busy making another new pallasite to sell to their customers. I know that's a mean thing to say, but I'm still out over $500 from Serge. I chalk it up to my own stupidity though. David

[meteorite-list] Unexplained Explosion Heard in Romania

http://www.daily-news.ro/article_detail.php?idarticle=25453 Unidentified explosion in Bacau Andreea Pocotila Bucharest Daily News April 20, 2006 A strong blow was heard yesterday morning in the area of the Comanesti city, in Bacau County, but authorities were unable to explain what caused the

[meteorite-list] Los Alamos Scientists Hope Two Asteroids Offer Insight to the Origins of the Solar System (Dawn)

http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/nw_science/article/0,2668,ALBQ_21236_4633359,00.html Los Alamos scientists hope two asteroids offer insight to the origins of the solar system By Sue Vorenberg The Albuquerque Tribune April 19, 2006 Trying to see what our solar system looked like before there were

RE: [meteorite-list] Re: Odour of meteorites

Good Evening List, I have an 80 gram Murchison specimen that I keep under a bell jar. When I lift the jar it contains the aroma of a fine whisky. With 98 identified amino acids and 13% water by volume perhaps this explains this wonderful smell. I never tire of it. All the best, Greg Greg

[meteorite-list] Re: Odour of meteorites

Hello again, I almost forgot one other aspect of meteorite smells. After you grind or polish just about any chondrite, the freshly ground surface smells of sulfur, undoubtably from troilite. Bob mail2web - Check your email from

RE: [meteorite-list] re:Odour of meteorites

Hi, Yep certain falls definitely have an odor, even O'C's have a metallic smell (to me anyway!?)it seems to be strongest after cutting, so I wonder if some of it is actually just the fine dust left over from the cutting process? I once tried to train my dog (Cleo) to recognize an Allende

Re: [meteorite-list] odour

I have a part slice of NWA 096 (H3.8) that when I first got it in Tucson a few years ago, smelled just like bubblegum! The odor has since gone away. David H. --- Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have been in contact with the persons who found the Ourique meteorite, and all of

Re: [meteorite-list] New to list - an introduction

Hi Mike, Welcome back to meteorites and Welcome aboard! It is good to have a few more collectors around in Washington State. One of my main goals is to find the sixth meteorite every found in this state. I believe I found a very small one some time back in Lake Washington with a magnetic

Re: [meteorite-list] Cometshop

From what I heard from two independent sources, we will not being seeing any bulk Sikhotes Alins lots or material from Oman from the Russians at any more shows. If true, which I have no reason to doubt, that means no more going through kilos of Sikhotes in Denver, Tucson and other shows on the

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite odours

I must say I have never noticed smells from meteorites but this week I have run an exhibition which included several large meteorite samples. What I estimate to be over a third of the people who saw and handled them -and there were several hundred people involved - said they did smell funny.

[meteorite-list] mike cottingham email me

Mike: You were inquiring about a piece, but left me no email. Please contact me via this address. Thanks. -- Matt Morgan Mile High Meteorites http://www.mhmeteorites.com http://www.mrmeteorite.com P.O. Box 151293 Lakewood, CO 80215 USA eBay user id: mhmeteorites

[meteorite-list] Lessons from an Odd Kuiper Belt Object (2003 EL61)

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1716_1.asp Lessons from an Odd Kuiper Belt Object By David Tytell Sky Telescope April 20, 2006 To date astronomers have found more than 1,000 Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) beyond Neptune, and the strangest one of all might just be the key to understanding

[meteorite-list] Daughters of Deep Impact: Two University of Maryland-Proposed Missions Could Help Clear Suddenly Clouded Comet Picture

http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20060420.094212time=10%2004%20PDTyear=2006public=0 Daughters of Deep Impact: Two University of Maryland-Proposed Missions Could Help Clear Suddenly Clouded Comet Picture COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Over the

[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: April 17-20, 2006

MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES April 17-20, 2006 o Feature of the Week: Mamers Valles http://themis.asu.edu/feature o Small Dunes (Released 17 April 2006) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060417a o Wall Failure (Released 18 April 2006) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060418a o Channel Landslide

[meteorite-list] The Danger of Asteroid Strikes

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060421/46773736.html The danger of asteroid strikes Yury Zaitsev RIA Novosti April 21, 2006 MOSCOW - Colonel General Vladimir Popovkin, commander of the Russian Space Force, told a news conference that the national satellite cluster lacked a spacecraft capable

[meteorite-list] Two More Meteorites Found in Kansas

http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/2671991.html Two More Meteorites Found In Kiowa County KAKE News April 20, 2006 Meteorite madness hitting Kansas with two major discoveries Thursday. The Kansas meteorite hunter is building up quite a collection. These massive objects from space are worth

Re: [meteorite-list] new eucrite NWA 3159

I second that, got my partslice with vesicles, flowing rock and fresh rock fragments yesterday. Now I'm looking forward to see some scientific reports on this meteorite as I have a lot of questions. How did it form? What was the cooling rate / burial depth. When did it form? What gas made the

[meteorite-list] One-Of-A-Kind Meteorite Unveiled (Tagish Lake)

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/uoa-omu042106.php Public release date: 21-Apr-2006 Contact: Beverly Betkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-3808 University of Alberta One-of-a-kind meteorite unveiled Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -- The depths of space are much closer to home

[meteorite-list] ad Ebay auctions ending soon: old rare stuff etc.

http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPageuserid=zagami Howdy Folks, Just a brief heads-up that my auctions of old, rare, often small stuff on ebay is ending soon. A couple noteworthy pieces include a Parnallee LL3 slice, Kesen Japan slice, Shelbourne Canada crusted fragment, 14g Nuevo

[meteorite-list] Meteorite strikes

Dear List:I thought no dog was ever killed by the Nakhlameteorite; but this link tells a different story!http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/icq/meteorites.htmlI wonder how could the Tunguska eventcould have killedhumans when the area is very sparsely populated? AlsoI though that it was only the

Re: [meteorite-list] Unexplained Explosion Heard in Romania

Hi list The boom was heard over few hundred kilometers across Bacau, Neamt, Vrancea and Harghita districts. There were some eye witnesses seing the meteorite falling in a forrest nearby Comanesti. I spoked with my friends from the local astronomy club and a team is curently searching the area

[meteorite-list] Meteorite-Times Update

Dear List, Jim and I have completed all of our major new features to Meteorite-Times with the last changes being a new pop-up dictionary available starting in the May issue and the last being a URL change that will hopefully benefit the magazine in the long term. Our original URL is being

[meteorite-list] AD- Pultusk 136 gram endcut and others

Hello all Here are a few ending Saturday eve http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnakhladog Also, the website has been updated with lots of new material, have a peek http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com Rob Wesel http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com -- We are the music makers... and we

[meteorite-list] Greetings

Hello everyone, my name is Luke Hill, i'm 21 and i currently live in London, UK. I am new to meteor collecting and hope to perhaps do my first search at some point but i just wanted to say that it's great being on this list because of all the different things i've learned already, smelly meteors,

[meteorite-list] 20 Million $$$ Mars Meteorite

Hello All, I have made an appointment, weekend after this one, to visit the people who have this thing on eBay for $20mil. I will bring my closeup digital camera and rare earth magnets. There is a piece sliced off so I'll get closeups of the inner composition too. Can anyone thing of

Re: [meteorite-list] Cometshop

Its many time I not seen big pieces of sikhote on ebay, max 100 grams or under pieces...the last 2 I have seen of 1.5 and 7.6 kg. I have buy personaly all 2. Matteo --- Adam Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: From what I heard from two independent sources, we will not being seeing any bulk

[meteorite-list] Re: Ebay 20 mil Meteorite...

Hello Everyone!..I'm new to the list,but Ihave conversed with a few of you..:),I'm just an Amateur rockhound/meteorite enthusiast, anyway's..I have a chip of that Rock on Ebay.."martian" that he want's to much for?..the one from New Hamshire?..I think we're talking about the same one.anyway's the