[meteorite-list] Some of my Meteorites in 3-D

2008-07-21 Thread Jay Annette
Hi gang, since there has been a lot of talk of the Mars 3-D pictures, I'll throw out my 3-D pics of some of the meteorites I found. I've always wanted to do some 3-D pics of the meteorites, so I did it. I found a neat little program to make them and had a fun time doing it. Here is the link

[meteorite-list] email adress Hans Koser - paper on the Ziz meteorite (NWA 854)

2008-07-21 Thread Svend Buhl - Meteorite-Recon.com
Dear list, may someone know, how our friend Hans Koser can be reached best? It seems his netgate.com.uy email adress isn't working properly. Besides I have been trying to locate the following paper on the Ziz iron meteorite: Horejsi, M.; Cilz, M.: From the Strewnfields: The Irons of Ziz:

Re: [meteorite-list] Some of my Meteorites in 3-D

2008-07-21 Thread Nicholas Gessler
Hi All, I had my students working with PhotoShop to make 3D images. You don't need a special camera, just take two photographs about 15 degrees apart. For more depth, make the spread larger. For less, make it smaller. You don't need to keep the separation to the distance between your eyes.

[meteorite-list] Glorieta meteorite damascus knives /ad/

2008-07-21 Thread Mike Miller
I think I had my formatting set wrong so I apologize if this comes across twice. Hi all I have just up loaded three more unique Glorieta Meteorite damascus knives to my web site. They are all unique and there is a different style in this group as well. Pretty cool stuff worth a look even if you

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - July 19, 2008

2008-07-21 Thread Mike Jensen
Hi Michael and list The text list this stone as a ACHANOM or achondrite anomalous. But if you look it up in the MB database it is listed as a Eucrite. http://tinyurl.com/5f4hxy According to several papers that were reference it has always been classified a Eucrite. If a change in classification

[meteorite-list] Re-2: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - July 19, 2008

2008-07-21 Thread bernd . pauli
Hi Fabrice, Mike and List, Mike wrote: The text list this stone as a ACHANOM or achondrite anomalous. But if you look it up in the MB database it is listed as a Eucrite ... So you could have Eucrite anom ... YAMAGUCHI A. et al. (2003) An anomalous eucrite, Dhofar 007, and a possible genetic

Re: [meteorite-list] Re-2: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - July 19, 2008

2008-07-21 Thread Mike Jensen
Hi Bernd Yes I saw both of those abstracts. Unfortunately abstracts carry almost no weight as they are not peer reviewed. So the most correct classification based on the original work would be a Eucrite. Though ultimately I would strongly suspect they are correct and in the future it will be

[meteorite-list] William Barriere - Youth of Canada be warned!

2008-07-21 Thread Martin Altmann
That is almost unreal. http://www.meteorites.bw.qc.ca/meteorites1/index.html Press: recommencer... and then enjoy. I'm curios about your opinion. Martin Now I have to read the second adventure... __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] William Barriere - Youth of Canada be warned!

2008-07-21 Thread Nicholas Gessler
My French is not that good and I didn't have time to click through the whole story, but what I did see looked great!!! Congratulations to the authors and artists!!! Nick At 12:36 PM 7/21/2008, Martin Altmann wrote: That is almost unreal. http://www.meteorites.bw.qc.ca/meteorites1/index.html

Re: [meteorite-list] William Barriere - Youth of Canada be warned!

2008-07-21 Thread Martin Altmann
Hehe, Nick, Good that you haven't clicked through the whole story. Such a style of propaganda I saw the last time in Romania, where a Christian sect distributed comic booklets, of really rude contents. (Family the same, Mother Father Sun Daughter Dog). Hehe, anti-propaganda, I just

[meteorite-list] AD - Sale page update

2008-07-21 Thread Peter Marmet
Hello All, I just added a stunning new LL4 condrite to my sale page: http://www.marmet-meteorites.com/id1.html Other sale pages: Carbonaceous chondrites: http://www.marmet-meteorites.com/id43.html Achondrites: http://www.marmet-meteorites.com/id41.html Museum pieces:

[meteorite-list] Fourth Dwarf Planet Named Makemake

2008-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
International Astronomical Union Paris, France For more information, please contact: Dr. Edward L.G. Bowell IAU Division III President Lowell Observatory, USA Tel: +1-928-774-3358 Mike Brown Professor of Planetary Astronomy California Institute of Technology Phone: +1-626-395-8423 Lars

[meteorite-list] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night

2008-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/release.php?ArticleID=1796 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 21, 2008 TUCSON, Ariz. -- To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a

Re: [meteorite-list] Fourth Dwarf Planet Named Makemake

2008-07-21 Thread lebofsky
This is the first time, as far as I can tell, that an IAU press release actually says that plutoids are a subset of dwarf planets. If you ask the right people (and refer back to the original defining of dwarf planets), in the IAU resolution, it states that: An IAU process will be established to

Re: [meteorite-list] William Barriere - Youth of Canada be warned!

2008-07-21 Thread Rob Wesel
So happy they were to see their name in the museum. The only inconsistency I saw was that there was only one collector after them and they took the first offer. Rob Wesel http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com -- We are the music makers... and we are the dreamers of the dreams.