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2011-12-12 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2011-12-12 Thread valparint
Bondoc TS http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange Meteor

2011-12-12 Thread Jim Wooddell
Hi Phil! I hope all that are seeing this sort of thing are reporting it on the AMS Fireball sight! It really helps us all reporting it there. Very easy to do and only takes a few minutes. http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball2/form2.php Happy Holidays! Jim Jim Wooddell https://k7wfr.us

[meteorite-list] Oregon Trails: Meteorites

2011-12-12 Thread Mike Groetz
Good Morning-    This is a pretty interesting article. It is written fairly reasonable and is not sensationalized as most are. http://kdrv.com/oregon_trails/233107   I am having trouble getting the video to run past the advertisement. Will keep trying. The initial photo though looks promising.

[meteorite-list] Annual Antarctica Meteorite Search

2011-12-12 Thread Paul H.
1. At the bottom of the world, a controversial search for cosmic leftovers, The Washington Post, December 4, 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/at-the-bottom-of-the-world-a-controversial-search-for-cosmic-leftovers/2011/12/02/gIQAUU8hTO_story.html 2. Antarctica Shines as

[meteorite-list] SW Auzzie hole in the ground

2011-12-12 Thread Paul H.
“in “SW Auzzie hole in the ground” at: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2011-December/081755.html Mike wrote: “Came across this Dec. 3, 2011 posting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYjpfYyH2wo Would seem fantastical for it to actually be an impact crater within a dried up stock

[meteorite-list] Is Vesta the 'Smallest Terrestrial Planet?'

2011-12-12 Thread Ron Baalke
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09dec_vestaplanet/ Is Vesta the Smallest Terrestrial Planet? NASA Science News December 9, 2011 NASA's Dawn spacecraft spent the last four years voyaging to asteroid Vesta - and may have found a planet. Vesta was discovered over

Re: [meteorite-list] Rare Moon Set Lunar Eclipse Vantage Point

2011-12-12 Thread Graham Ensor
Sounds like a dream of a night out in the desert. Nice photos Jonathan. Thanks for sharing the experience. Cheers and a merry Xmas from soggy England, Graham On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Jonathan Abel abelcomp...@cox.net wrote: List - Sentiments of the Season!! They showed my lunar

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar eclipse Jim Shorten IMCA #6204

2011-12-12 Thread Graham Ensor
Hi Jim, Very good of the moon and Earth to position themselves perfectly for such a magnificent shot down past the OK Corral. Was strolling down there just over a year ago. Cheers, Graham On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:44 AM, John.L.Cabassi j...@cabassi.net wrote: Apologies once again Jim and

Re: [meteorite-list] LOTS OF MOON ROCKS GONE?

2011-12-12 Thread Randy Korotev
I'd like to address this issue of missing Apollo samples as a researcher. I just checked my inventory. I have 999 (really!) line items of samples from the 6 Apollo and 3 Russian Luna landing sites from NASA. I can think of only 1 or 2 other researchers who might have more. The total mass

[meteorite-list] Allende meteorite selling for around $40 a gram!!!

2011-12-12 Thread Shawn Alan
Hello Listers Now I know Allende has always had a stable value per gram which has been around $10 to $12 a gram depending on the market or collection it comes from. But now, it seems that the value has jumped up for one auction on a 23gram slice, selling for $1000 at the Natural History

[meteorite-list] Allende meteorite selling for around $40 a gram!!!

2011-12-12 Thread Shawn Alan
Message body Hello Listers Now I know Allende has always had a stable value per gram which has been around $10 to $12 a gram depending on the market or collection it comes from. But now, it seems that the value has jumped up for one auction on a 23gram slice, selling for $1000 at the Natural

[meteorite-list] HED fell in Tata morocco?

2011-12-12 Thread Francesco Moser
Hi folks! Anyone have some information about an HED meteorite fell in Tata on november 11 of this year (11.11.11) ??? Thanks! Francesco IMCA #1510 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] LOTS OF MOON ROCKS GONE?

2011-12-12 Thread Benjamin P. Sun
Hi Randy and List, My first post on this thread was more in regards towards loss coming from loans for display to museums, observatories, and the Goodwill stones to countries and states, ect. And that not so much of the loss was coming from the scientists who actually need the material for

Re: [meteorite-list] Allende meteorite selling for around $40 a gram!!!

2011-12-12 Thread Darryl Pitt
Hi, After having curated the sale of more than 1000 specimens in traditional auctions since having introduced the auction of meteorites in the mid 90s, I can tell you Mike is 100% correct. There are trends, and there are aberrations---and this is an example of the latter. That is,..for

[meteorite-list] Some eBay Auctions... - AD

2011-12-12 Thread Greg Hupé
Happy Holidays! I loaded up a few eBay auctions that you may like. http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault Best Regards, Greg The Dead Horse Society-EL3 Dead Horses Can't Live Until They Are Buried Standing UP! Greg Hupé The Hupé Collection gmh...@centurylink.net

Re: [meteorite-list] Allende meteorite selling for around $40 a gram!!!

2011-12-12 Thread Graham Ensor
In my experience at the big public auctions the smaller exotic items nearly always seem to go for lot more than the market price...especially Lunar meteorites. The only good deals are usually the larger museum quality pieces if you are lucky enough to find one without a high reserve and have deep

[meteorite-list] New Southern AZ cold find

2011-12-12 Thread U.S. Airborne
Its been quite some time since I last posted to the list . I think it was last summer when I was in Shetland Islands up in the arctic circle helping film whale wars with animal channel Sea Sheppard . Hunting for meteorites in old Scottish rock walls was about as exciting as my summer of

Re: [meteorite-list] LOTS OF MOON ROCKS GONE?

2011-12-12 Thread Impactika
Thank you Randy for this accounting. But it seems to me that other factors are being ignored. First of all some of your experiments and analysis are necessarily destructive, and you cannot account for material that has been vaporized, or dissolved. Also, some of that material has been cut

[meteorite-list] [AD] New Website, Ebay Auctions Ending, All-New Meteorite Men Tonight

2011-12-12 Thread Meteorite Men
Dear Listees: I am very pleased to announce the launch of a new website, Meteorites.co, which focuses on selections from my personal collection, as well as some high end meteorite specimens: http://meteorites.co In addition, we have a number of Ebay auctions ending in a couple of hours. Of

[meteorite-list] TEST delete

2011-12-12 Thread Ruben Garcia
-- Rock On! Ruben Garcia Website: www.MrMeteorite.com Articles: www.meteorite.com/blog/ Videos: www.youtube.com/profile?user=meteorfright#p/u __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing

[meteorite-list] NASA's Dawn Spirals Down to Lowest Orbit Around Vesta

2011-12-12 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-384 NASA's Dawn Spirals Down to Lowest Orbit Jet Propulsion Laboratory December 12, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta today, beginning a new phase of

Re: [meteorite-list] Allende meteorite selling for around $40 a gram!!!

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Spratt
Gee I hope so! I could then sell a couple of pieces of mine so I can pay my dog's vet bills! Chris Spratt Victoria, BC (Via my iPhone) __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] Ontario Canada / NE USA Bolide

2011-12-12 Thread drtanuki
Dear List, Bolide was seen 12DEC2011 ~6:00 pm in Ontario and NE USA: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/12/canada-ne-usa-bolide-meteor-12dec2011.html Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] Allende meteorite selling for around $40 a gram!!!

2011-12-12 Thread Shawn Alan
Hello Listers, I think Michael Farmer made a good point and it seems his post didnt make it on here yet. This is what he said Allende is one of the most important meteorites on the planet. Extremely undervalued due to the sheer amount which fell. Try getting it today. Not easy. I second

Re: [meteorite-list] Allende meteorite selling for around $40 a gram!!!

2011-12-12 Thread Doug Ross
Hi Shawn, I attended the Bonham's auction yesterday, and I was indeed shocked by the bidding war over that Allende piece. On the other hand, I was equally shocked by the many other meteorites which went unsold, despite low starting bids in some cases. A 910mg slice of lunar Dhofar 1180