Ted is absolutely right. These aren't isolated cases. It goes back
much, much earlier than that, too. Besides the Indiana Martian from the
1930's found in a drawer, consider the cases of Zacatecas (1792), or,
Durango (1800's) supposedly from Chihuahua, or jejeje - how about
Tucson's own epic op
Bob wrote:
"What are the coordinates for the Lafayette (stone)?"
Hi Bob, they are the coordinates of the Purdue University Earth
Sciences Department where Farrington found the Lafayette nakhlite in a
drawer in the geology department (1931). No doubt you can speak for Los
Angeles. The question
Michael B. wrote:
"The barn stone was coupled with the stone that fell at the feet of the
barn owner."
Michael's quoted statement is inaccurate. (Kindly note that my comment
and his quote are both unrelated to the stone being sold in the ad).
Many nice collectors asked me about this, and I
Hi Michael, Fare thee well in the New Year.
With reverence towards the enduring patience of the Angel that
enlightens
the rarest amongst us, I would more easily believe that neither of the
Southerners would lie than that Cap'n Blood would not muck it up. You
certainly are not to deny whatever y
Hi Martin,
Your estimates give an average density of 7.54 g/cm3 (7.54 ton/m3) for
the whole kit and kaboodle.
That's about 93 cubic meters of 'rites which compacted, theoretically
makes a cube with a sides of 4.5 meters.
That is double the size of my bedroom ... just to find an adamant
bal
Dear List,
With an abyss in my stomach and many tears for a beautiful Country in
the year of its both its proud centennial of the Revolution and
Bicentennial of Independence, I would like to express my condolences
for the adventurous soul who is likely no longer with us after going to
the All
Hello from Sunny Texas, under clear and starry-eyed skies at the moment,
A few stones were found right at the time of the fall, however, they
were not definitively identified as meteorites - though that was the
suspicion and they were saved.
We (Doug Dawn, Dmitry Sadilenko, Sergey Petukov) dr
Hello Rob, Listees,
While I understand your concerns regarding meteorite fever of others, I
would like to assure you that our team flew Dr. Rubin material found by
our fortunate team, and placed it in his hand in less than 72 hours
after it was hot, or better, I should say cold. He actually wa
Hello Rob, Listees,
While I understand your concerns regarding meteorite fever of others, I
would like to assure you that our team flew Dr. Rubin material found by
our fortunate team, and placed it in his hand in less than 72 hours
after it was hot, or better, I should say cold. He actually wa
Hello List,
I don't know if this information was shared anywhere, but hopefully it
can quell any rumors regarding our total finds. They were:
12 specimens (11 were fully fusion crusted)
Total weight of these, a bit over 10 ounces, distributed among six
parties.
Note: I am finally going thro
Hello List,
I don't know if this information was shared anywhere, but hopefully it
can quell any rumors regarding our total finds. They were:
12 specimens (11 were fully fusion crusted)
Total weight of these, a bit over 10 ounces, distributed among six
parties.
Note: I am finally going thro
Hi List,
I heard some large stones were found near Buffalo, but it really
doesn't make much sense... probably rumors.
If anyone wants to kindly share their coordinates, we will be
publishing a strewn field map of the portion of the first recovered
stones in about one month. It would be great
Hello Walter, List!
This theft of Moon rocks story has seriously been the embarrassment of
the century for JSC. Thankfully time is passing and wounds are healing.
It was a very sad chapter for responsibility and ethics for the entire
academic community.
Mike said:
"Tie up the thieves to pole
Mike, Looking more angritish now?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120397007921
Best wishes,
Doug
-Original Message-
From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks
To: Meteorite List
Sent: Sun, 10 May 2009 10:22 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] Angrite or not?
Hi List,
I've seen t
Dear List,
Happy anniversary to the Butsura meteorite (H6), whose anniversary of
its fall from the heavens on May 12, 1861 is today.
If today is your birthday whether you be in India, Mexico or Germany,
... happy birthday!
Did anyone notice Svend's site has a writeup on this fall with the
Dear List,
Please enjoy a photo of Zacatecas (1792), perhaps it is helpful.
http://www.diogenite.com/zacs92.jpg
Sorry I am quiet lately, I am recovering from surgery and it hurts to
even type, so any emails I owe, kindly be patient.
Best wishes
Doug
-Original Message-
From: Michael
Dear Bernd, List,
Thanks for the interesting post on this curious case.
So everyone can enjoy this 0.25cm "fossil" "meteorite" which Kyte
classified as a "CV, CO, or CR carbonaceous chondrite", here is an
original image in color:
http://tinyurl.com/qf8u9w
The "meteorite" is also described a
from the bottom...
Also it should be noted that the classification of Eltanin is "probably
mesosiderite", allowing for the possibility that it is not, but
confirming it is an official meteorite anyway.
Best wishes,
Doug
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From: Mexicodoug
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Sent: Thu, 21 May 2009 4:49 pm
Subject: The COMET that killed the dinosaurs
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Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:01:26 -0400
From: Mexicodoug
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] K
Hi Ruben, Greg, and a big hello to Dean,
Ruben you almost did get it (You didn't see us, but we heard you :-),
though we never saw you. You were there just a couple of days before
Greg flew in. The locals with the guy from Mora told me about the iron,
though I wasn't very interested. The find
Hi Ed, Dr. Bunch,
Not quite sure I follow what you mean by a long period comet becoming a
short period comet and apparently circulating for millions of years. I
thought such comet lifetimes are significantly less than that and if
the literature I saw is to be believed, along the P-Tr unconform
Dear Dorothy, I am heartbroken to hear this terrible news, and greatly
missed Richard in the recent fleeting years. Richard was a true
inspiration. Like all things beautiful - a meteor crossing the heavens,
the sound of a beautiful symphony, the tender caress of a loved one,
the whiff of fresh
Carl said:
"First of all registered mail must be secured using paper tape which
cannot be removed and the tape is date stamped all along every edge of
the tape (this assures that the tape has not been tampered with)."
Martin said:
"(I remember a country, where, before it joined EU, people havi
Pete wrote:
"can a meteorite hit earth and eject debris which (maybe) land on the
moon or Mars? What would we call such a meteorite---Earthoid, or maybe
Earthite?"
Hi Pete,
Generally the splashed and splattered material from a meteoroid impact
on earth are called "Tektites", or if it was fr
Dr. Grossman wrote:
"I think most scientists would call it a terrestrial meteorite, or
perhaps a terran meteorite."
Hi Jeff,
Definitely those are viable options, though I think this subject would
spark more debate than Pluto, Plutonian and Plutonic in these extended
circles if it ever had a
"Pathogens and their hosts are, quite literally, made for each other."
I understand this statement but disagree with it in the terms of the
current debate. It presupposes our thoughts from our experience with
life on earth and the equilibrium life has here. At a basic level we
are just bags of
--> Martian. (Martinus, says Martin, the Martian).
Mercur, Mercuris ---> Mercurian. Venus, Veneris ---> Venerian. (cause I
read somewhere Venusian) Hmm the Doug "Dawn"-space probe is on the way
to
Vesta. Vestalian meteorites sounds a little bit)
Uuh, a
Hi Geo,
Since regmaglypts are the result of airflow (and only when it travels
relatively fast in sufficiently dense atmosphere), I would suggest that
their sizes of regmaglypts are both proportional to the size of the
piece when it is subject to the turbulence (requires piece to be moving
fas
Hi Linton, List,
How sad! - this smacks of Nininger's closing of his museum at Meteor
Crater (Though I am sure the Barringers can identify with it as well).
Lowell is the most deserving of institutions, but it looks like the
meteorite is now in the part of the visitor center that requires more
Great article, though this paragraph about other "meteors" being found
need editing:
"Other meteors have been located in ancient ruins of the Americas, as
well as around the world, ranging in size from the three ounce
Pojoaque meteorite, found in an ancient pottery bowl near Santa Fe,
N.M., to t
material and methods, with Wasson, Moore and Co.,
and appreciate their work with Greg in getting this interesting find
done relatively quickly.
Best wishes, Doug
----
-Original Message-
From: Sterling K. Webb
To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Mexicodoug
Sent: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11
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-Original Message-
From: Zelimir Gabelica
To: Mexicodoug ; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 8:59 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The tale of a falling star
Hi Doug,
Didn't you forget Winona ?
See here a quite in
Darren rote:
">Bernd - 0% Ni content ;-)
Oh, you are some percent Ni. The 0% is likely a rounding error.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel#Biological_role";
Hi Darren,
I don't think there was any concern with about the floating point
arithmetic facing programmers with the 0%. Bernd was precise
Here's the first public photo from China's first Moon orbiter launched last
month.
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n620682/n639462/132125.html
Not bad for the Chang'e ship (apparently pronounced "Ch-ong-er" after the
snooping woman in her husband's personal items, who feared being caught, ate
Mike wrote:
"... chondrules in most pieces ...
if some ... chondules ... then it is a chondrite,
if ... a chondrite, it cannot be an Aubrite."
Dr. Grossman posted that the aubrite classification, or the E-chondrite
classification, like all classifications in the Bulletin, is not peer
reviewed
Hi Dean,
Yes this is very confusing and unscientific. As you deal in fossils, I
think you have a gut appreciation of what a fossil is (rare occurence, once
living, formed in a long process, from sediment deposition) and what it is
not (an inorganic rock). For example, Adam Hupe has been conf
Hi Pete and welcome to the meteorite world online!
"Also, the heat of the entry into the atmosphere will kill any magnetism of
the meteorite"
This wouldn't usually be expected to be true - and though this would be more
likely for an iron meteorite, other fine structures (and even volatiles) a
"I think you are confusing Cali with Caracas... Matt"
Hi Matt,
Was there a recent fall in Venezuela?
Best wishes,
Doug
--
Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
P.O. Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215 USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTEC
http://www.diogenite.com/maybe.html
Dear Listees,
I quickly just wrote up the circumstances of a new UFO (Unidentified Found
Object), and hope the great list can give me some meteorite-relevant
comments relating to the form and texture of this iron object. It seemed to
be the only metallic
Mike wrote:
"Only one way to know, cut it, etch it, do a ni test. Otherwise it could be
anything."
Hi Mike,
By posting, I just hoped to get some opinions on the shape, which I am
purposely not commenting on as it relates to meteorites in order to get some
feedback. Like someone's mother
iter are thought to have basically non metallic cores, so my take-way is
that any power dissapated from such hypothesized eddy currents is minor
compared to other interactions with Jupiter. This is a PS because it is
based on volcanically shaky ground, but I thought you might appreciate that,
Tracy wrote:
"Thought experiment... Jupiter is known to have some heavy magnetic fields,
as well as intense radiation. Would an iron asteroid spending several
thousand years or so whipping through Jupiter's magnetic field develop a
notable magnetism of its own? "
Hi Tracy, Listees[3rd posting a
Hi Pete, List
Thanks for the extra kind post. Of course, if the object orbiting
physically flipped that would be one heck of a magnet! On the other hand,
there is nothing preventiing a liquid metallic core from reorienting in a
"sinusoidal" (sorry for the five-dollar word, but you said you w
ossible. In any case I would imagine the
magnetization will be so minimal that you will need to make compass needles
out of them and float them on water to see this effect...
- Original Message -
From: Erich Kern
To: mexicodoug ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tuesday, Dece
Hi Elton, Listees,
I'm appreciating everyone's super comments and will respond to these kindly
offered ideas (optimistic, realistic and negative) and friendly concerns
weighed together, in one email after hopefully even more feedback.
But Elton needs more data, this is the best I can do (and
Pete wrote:
"When the sun gives a large flare, what if the meteorite passed thru the
flame portion of the flare? Does the flare have enough energy to magnetize a
meteorite? The flare energy is typicaly 10 to the 27th ergs per second."
Jerry answered:
"Passing THRU a solar flare would put this
Hi Steve, Grail Purveyors, Listees,
The grail requires a romantic quest for something plausible yet not provable
nor obtainable. It must be legendary and miraculous and an object of only
the most religious passion, controversy, as well as a dark side of greed; be
erroneously linked with an ex
[Strangely, the trail to finding the tusks began at a fossil sale in a motel
in Arizona. ... Recalling previous visits to the annual Tucson Gem and
Mineral Show, West says, "A bulb went on in my head;"]
A candidate for a real meteorite fossil (with no "quotes"?)
http://www.nature.com:80/news/2
Or so the story goes ...
anyways that's why CD would be spherules and not ellipsoidules or splatules
(if they were hot enough to penetrate bone appreciably) :-)
General comment: We got the idea! ... it *is* quite a far flung theory ...
but then again, like it or not, there are some parallels t
Jason and Sterling chatted::
"But we have to account for a crater (well, impactor at least - or maybe
just call it a 'body') large enough to deposit such a layer of dust, and I
don't think that you're going to get that from such a small impact."
Dear Listees,
Tusk, tsk ... Sounds like it woul
Hello List,
Surprised this unprecedented video recording of a Geminid (?) long lasted
splintering fireball imaged from the helicopter hasn't made it to the list
yet...
http://www.thisismereporting.com/view_video.php?viewkey=7ddef7f2c4f25dc8fa86
Best wishes and Life,
Doug
_
Ed wrote:
"It seems to me that in the real world, the gravitational effects of the
Earth+Moon system should draw items in, gradually
changing their orbits from those passing near to ones which intersect."
Hello Ed,
Mabe, but the Solar System is a pretty "happening" place, and if it is an
Ear
r 17, 2007 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Phoenix desert fireball
for me is a satellite
matteo
--- mexicodoug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
Hello List,
Surprised this unprecedented video recording of a
Geminid (?) long lasted
splintering fireball imaged from the helicopter
hasn&#x
Larry wrote:
"something like 30 years ago. It would be nice if people gave credit where
credit was due."
Hi Larry, List,
I agree with your complaint that it is a more satisfying existence to give
credit when expressing ideas, to those upon whose shoulders one is
peering from. The press and 'dis
"It's even hard to predict the exact results..."
Hola Listees,
Yes, this is what Larry and I had already stated, Sterling. While on the
subject of James Clerk Maxwell, I wanted to add two interesting footnotes,
(1) Decated to Sterling, a guitar fellow with Maxwell (and not to forget
E.P.'s
Greg wrote:
"Lets say for conversation sake that the asteroid does hit Mars. Would there
be a "Rover Extinction", and if so, should we name it "Rover Ratatouille",
keeping in line with the recent "Mammoth Stew" thread?"
I bet most of us have been over-gorged and over-stuffed on Mammoth stew.
Hola Listees,
A couple of you asked me about the Rudolph comment I made for Christmas Eve
sight involving Mars. It is fairly well covered in some places, but I
thought it wouild be a good idea to post it for us. What could be better
for Christmas than a Lunar collision with Mars??? That's e
Dear Listees,
Here's a kind wish from us for peace and happiness, especially those who
have had a difficult year, for renewed hope and happiness. Written over
home-made egg nog (commercially nearly impossible to find in Mexico), I hope
it is still ok in the morning...
The Tale of Happy
Hi Pete,
It is 20% of less than 100 grams;
20 grams if more than 100 grams.
So if we grossed up the 90 grams it would not be 112.5 grams per guidelines,
but rather 110 grams. However, if we read the email, it seems the writer
seemed not to believe any was removed from the 90 grams yet, so the
Tim,
I give up, what are you thinking - to sell them unclassified except for a 2
gram stone and then give a scientist 0.4 grams in exchange for classifying
the entire fall? Naughty naughty
Doug
- Original Message -
From: "Timothy Heitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Timothy Heitz" <[EMAIL
paired to the ones that were used for the typing work.
Best wishes, Doug
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From: "Timothy Heitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mexicodoug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Samples
Doug
Hello Listees,
http://quadrantid.seti.org/
An interesting post just showed up in the meteor observing forum.
The subject is an airline mission cramming lots of neat instruments and
scientists like sardines into a jet that could be the subject of a Gary
Larson "Far Side" cartoon is the prettie
Hi Ed, Chris,
I also posted a reply to this along the lines Chris did, but it didn't show
up. Ed, I am gathering from Chris' conclusions from your post that you've
mixed up visible light with gamma rays as sources of neutrons because they
are both radiation?
Best wishes,
Doug
my original b
Hi Darren and friends,
I think your geometry is mostly fine though there is an easier way to check
the nuclear reaction asserted, left in the wake of the meteoroid. It's more
accurate and you don't even need to truncate the atmosphere:
Try this:
Km^2 "nuclear reactor" meteoroid=Pi*.5^2
=0.7
might well be
totally correct musing (I think so; it hangs together; we all
love a good synthesis), but it's brain gas just the same. So
is the theory of gravity, but I can see it work a thousand
times a day. I can't see a big impact that often, not even
once a lifetime. No observations. And
that you are terrible with homework,
and would solve world hunger before settling down to do what the professor
assigned...
Best wishes,
Doug
- Original Message -
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mexicodoug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sen
with comets...and there is plenty of
semiheavy water in the ice caps :-)
What about 10-Be or Uranium ratios (238/235) I had mentioned. Any hope for
them IYO?
Best wishes,
Doug
- Original Message -
From: "Rob Matson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mexicodoug&q
Hi Göran, Rob, Sterling, Darren, Ed, and other nuclear meteoriticists,
What an impressive post from Göran, don't you think? Rob has given us an
interesting option to think about measuring residue from a nuclear blast
during the time frames of interest.
While I'm not able to judge the preferr
Would that be the cowboy Charlie Brown's photo that Nininger used to show
around, which was a somewhat helical smoke train?
Best wishes,
Doug
- Original Message -
From: "Francis Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Who was
Rob wrote:
"I'm referring to is inertial electrostatic confinement, where the energy
required is very modest. It's not that difficult to produce neutrons with a
tabletop device using nothing other than electricity"
Hi Rob,
That is a very "long-shot" in more ways than one. Unless I also
misu
Rhonda wrote:
"I'm not sure you have to have a metorite in your
posession to be in love with metorites ... want
the first one to be special and I can't figure out what
exactly it should be."
Dear Rhonda and List friends,
This was one topic that was (for me) really not meteorite related at all,
Ruben wrote:
Here's is a link toa funny post that kinda
illustarates my point.NOT THAT I MIND
THIS TYPE OF WOMAN!!I DON'T!!
http://www.nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=12123";
Stay tuned till next time while lusting after special meteorite finds
for a profligate, "Love in the Time
Hi Mark, Marco, and others who enjoyed the Parker Bros. Napoleonic "Risk"
game as kids*,
Been playing around with this "DIY Map" software (macromedia based) since
Mark first posted. I think I like the Meteorite bulletin - USGS Google
Earth interface better, and would encourage you to check in
hich could save some
problems, though I imagine if the coordinates are used for Erfoud or Agadir,
etc., it would look funny. Not much we can do about that mess, though...
Best wishes, Doug
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mex
ssage -
From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mexicodoug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite List"
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Simple mapping software? (A little OT)
There was a bug on the MetBull da
"I am looking for a source for very inexpensive irons. They should be small
(around 10-15g) and $0.20 to $0.30 each...At the lower end, I could buy a
couple hundred of them."
Hi Bob,
Two cents per gram and classified means at best you could manage $40 to $60
for 2Kg to 3Kg of conveniently si
Hi Sterling, List,
While the international politics of Iraq is out of my league to comment on,
I must comment how I was very saddened to read this article.
It was 2012, then 2015, then 2020 or 2025 ... there is a trend here and it
is crap for most all of us. Let me tell you IMO what's broke
I'd guess "Park Forest", because more list members were picked up then than
at any other time, it probably was relfected in the Database as well. Unless
all the continued Franconia, Gold Basin, Campo or Brenhem would do it?
Moss probably came in closebut doesn't have the three year benefit...
Hey Martin, I had my guesses so thy are used and this is in response to it
not being the obvious:
Probably MIHONOSEKI or maybe CARANCAS caught up in spite of the short time
due to the scandal :-)
If it isn't the obvious, it'll be a surprise, but I doubt any NWA can do it
...
Doug
- O
Hi Michael, Twink and friends,
"Gold Basin Birthday Cake To the Tucson Meteorite Auction and it will
contain 3 gold basin meteorites (careful chewing!)"
Thanks Twink for volunteeing such great Tucson hospitality - again! The
Gold Basin Birthday Cake is the greatest!
Is it OK to run a detec
Dear List,
Please refer to the links for the 1.2 kilogram Benguerir, Morocco piece.
It is a very attractive piece about 94% crusted with nice black fusion
crust picked up close to the time of the fall. The piece has become
available after a museum offer fell through last year and it was put
Hello Michael and Moni,
It is a real pleasure that Michael has been recognized. The RFSPOD's
are a great perk from Michael and participating list members, for the
rest of us
and I love 'em.
Thanks for the post Moni,
Doug
-Original Message-
From: Moni Waiblinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Michael B. wrote:
"If you want to be really fussy, (I am) rinse with 95% to 99% alcohol
after and dry in the oven with the pilot light.
The very cheapest you can get is in Mexico - any drug store."
Hi Michael and McCartney, List amigos,
Of course, you can never be too "fussy", cutting meteori
Hey Michael,
...all this time I thought you were practicing batik ;-( Doug
Michael wrote:
"Say Mr,
Watch what you say about tie-dyes!
Michael"
on 3/7/08 12:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael B. wrote:
"If you want to be really fussy, (I am) rinse wi
McCartney T. wrote:
"One picture can say so much...Riddle me this, and Riddle me that,
Can't you all guess where the meteorites at?"
Hi McCartney,
Cat. Hat. In French, chat chapeau. In Spanish, el gato in a sombrero.
(The picture is saying to me ... You pulled it out of your sombrero!)
Que Su
Steve, do you mean the world's tallest?
As for Michael Casper: He was(is?) the 'adjunct curator' (there was no
chief curator) of the meteorite collection at Cornell, held by SPIF.
Just ask Rick Kline at Cornell's Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility
(SPIF). I am sure he could comment on th
Robert W. wrote:
"VERY rough ESTIMATE of the spread of time by simply dividing the
length of the strewnfield by a max free fall speed of ~ 200mph??? ...
IF all the above is even halfway accurate, could one safely say that
during a "typical" fall, meteorites are impacting down the length of
the
Pete wrote:
"Some will be blown up and some will be blown down."
I believe this is a common misconception for many in the meteorite
community and common thought. I don't think anything is "blowing up".
Simply fragmenting. Each part of the original whole maintains its
portion of momentum u
http://www.explorernews.com/article/show/21655
Don't miss Twink's great article about the display of some of Jim
Kriegh's meteorites in Oro Valley! Best,
Doug
Kriegh's rocks from the sky on display in OV
Guest column by Twink Monrad
-
L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
- Original Message - From: "Bob Loeffler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Further thoughts
Hi mexicodoug, et al,
Does anyone have evidence of
Al M. wrote:
"It is their rarity that makes us take notice and ponder them."
Not for me Al. We all have our personal reasons for collecting. I
don't think Darren and Walter deserve any moral criticism. Also, they
were not unrealistic, as if that had any bearing. For example, would
you ra
Larry A. wrote:
"Does a hammer stone this make?"
Hello Larry, Bernd, Listees,
Most definitely does IMO, but better than that, it sounds more like the
unique delivery the Courier service from the Heavens "left on the front
door", and whoever left it was nice enough to ring the celestial
doorb
Anita W. wrote:
"Would that be a hammer hammer?"
Hi Anita,
... maybe a "hammered stone", to complement a "stoned hammer"?
When a meteorite hits a Mars Exploration Rover, what an opportunity for
a naming party :-)
(Human, Animal, Manmade, MER).
Best wishes
Doug
-Original Message---
Michael B. wrote:
"If, as stated, even if it struck a tree first it landed on a "welcome"
mat of its own momentum, there is a strong argument for calling it a
hammer."
Hi Michael, Bob, Listees,
It's quite silly (but fun) too make up arbitrary definitions of what
consists of a 'hammer' and w
Barb B. wrote:
"If there is ejecta from earth floating around in space, are there
meteorites of earth origin that have been found and classified"
Hi Barb,
This is a recurring question among meteorite enthusiasts.
At the moment, the only confirmed place lots of ejecta is floating
around is i
Hi Ed,
Since ejecta would start out with the same rotational motion as the
Earth, at what point and by what mechanism would you inferring that it
"decouples" from Earth and looses that rotational component of its own
motion? Good question, though!
Best wishes,
Doug
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Hi Goran, Chris (and Larry L, who sent and excellent private reply),
Coriolirees,
The Paris Gun alledgedly demonstrated that shooting heavy oriented
shells at 1.6 km/s required a 1% correction over 130 kilometers range
for their particular situation. However, I tend to agree with Goran in
t
On "regmaglypts" in LDG...
Sean M. wrote:
"I called them "Pseudo" in the description, because, well, there is
still a lot of debate about them being formed from traveling through
the atmosphere"
Hello,
"Still a lot of debate"? Could you kindly elaborate where atmospheric
aerodynamic shapi
Hi Norm,
Running a little slow in my emails, thanks for the (much earlier) reply
and nice to see you're still in touch...
Best wishes,
Doug
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From: Norm Lehrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Gilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sterling W. wrote:
"Both Schultz and I calculate that the object was still supersonic when
it hit, still enclosed in a "detached" shock wave, so the sides never
ablated at any point."
Hi Sterling,
Yes, but to Schultz's credit, he has put a novel mechanism on the table
for scientific conside
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