[meteorite-list] AD: Meteorites and Book Collection for sale

2011-04-22 Thread Bruce Wegmann
Doing the final switch-over from meteorites to rare watches...can't afford to do both. Available now: Allende CV3, outstanding, pristine specimen purchased 25 years ago, from the Frederick Pough material collected immediately after the fall. 231.75 grams Comes with custom rosewood

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorwrongs and Meteorites

2011-04-22 Thread Martin Altmann
Short practical question, Carl, if you don't mind? Up to which monetary sum you'd think it would be justified to measure random stones, in the hope to find once an unknown meteorite species? (And what would the gain for mankind, to have found such, regarding the used financial means, which could

[meteorite-list] AD - New Meteorites (Rare Types), New Amber/Copal, Dinosaur Bone, Cretaceous Teeth, more!

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Gilmer
Hi Friends and Collectors! I have added several new meteorite listings today, including some rare types never offered before. I have also listed more than 40 pieces and lots of amber. Between new meteorites and new amber, I have spent the better part of the last 3 days processing this new

[meteorite-list] Tweetup At NASA's JPL Previews Missions To Mars, Jupiter And More

2011-04-22 Thread Ron Baalke
April 21, 2011 Stephanie L. Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierh...@nasa.gov Veronica McGregor Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9452 veronica.c.mcgre...@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-122 TWEETUP AT NASA'S JPL PREVIEWS MISSIONS TO MARS,

[meteorite-list] Big ebay sale: Martians and Lunars and more (oh my!)

2011-04-22 Thread Walter Branch
Hello Everyone, Once each year I sell off specimens I am no longer interested in or have duplicates of or whatever reason. Last year, at about this time, my posted meteorites sold out within 24 hours. I have some exceptional lunar and martian meteorites listed on ebay. Over a dozen active

[meteorite-list] POP QUIZ FRIDAYS

2011-04-22 Thread Shawn Alan
Hello Listers   Its been a slow week on here and I would like to announce today is a POP QUIZ.   The 10th Lister that emails me the correct answer will win a free Saratov meteorite fragment over 100mg the fell in 1918 in Russia.   Question   True or Fale   The current classification scheme for

[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: April 18-22, 2011

2011-04-22 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES April 18-22, 2011 o Arsia Mons Flows (18 April 2011) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5624 o Gullies (19 April 2011) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5625 o Arda Valles (20 April 2011) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5626 o Dunes (21 April 2011)

[meteorite-list] Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail

2011-04-22 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26667/?ref=rss Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail The Physics arXiv Blog April 20, 2011 The latest measurements of Pluto's tenuous atmosphere indicate that it may be shaped into a comet-like tail, say astronomers Pluto's has a highly elliptical

[meteorite-list] AD - ebay: ALH76009 (Antarctica!), ALLENDE, stunning HED's, new Brachinite, Ureilite, CK6(!), CK3, CV3, ...and more!...

2011-04-22 Thread Peter Marmet
Hello All, On ebay I'm selling a part slice(!) of ALH76009, a very nice Allende slice, more stunning HEDs and several other rare meteorites: historic ones (Buy It Now), CCs, a puzzling new Brachinite and more... The auctions will end in about two days. Please have a look:

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail

2011-04-22 Thread Richard Montgomery
Ron et al, Here are a few more neophyte questions: Has the term dwarf so far and recently been attributed soley to Pluto's rocky size with no regard for undiscovered atmosphere anomolies cited here? And to whit, what about our gas-planets stature in the planet definition? -Richard

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Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail

2011-04-22 Thread KB2SMS
I'm guessing the flyby will be a LITTLE sooner than this!;) Quote: The world's telescopes will be increasingly trained on Pluto as the arrival of the New Horizons mission draws near. Its flyby is scheduled for 2105. __ Visit the Archives at

[meteorite-list] Identified Flying Objects - Wethersfield, Connecticut, Meteorite Fall

2011-04-22 Thread Paul H.
Identified flying objects byRon Robillard 04/22/2011, Identified flying objects Wethersfield Post, April 22, 2011. http://www.zwire.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1662dept_id=11233newsid=20460368 http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20460368BRD=1662PAG=461dept_id=11233rfi=6 The article

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail

2011-04-22 Thread lebofsky
Richard: The atmosphere of Pluto has been known since 1985. The reclassification of Pluto was in 2006 and was based solely on dynamical considerations (a sphere but has not cleared its orbit, i.e., there are other large things in similar orbits). Its physical properties were not taken into

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail

2011-04-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
scheduled for 2105... 2105 == 2015 Awards are being sent to the Society of Astrophysical Typesetters right now... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Tom Randall (KB2SMS) tommy2...@hvc.rr.com To:

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail

2011-04-22 Thread Tom Randall (KB2SMS)
I'm guessing the flyby will be a LITTLE sooner than this!;) Quote: The world's telescopes will be increasingly trained on Pluto as the arrival of the New Horizons mission draws near. Its flyby is scheduled for 2105. __ Visit the Archives

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail

2011-04-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Dear List, Quoting from the PDF of the paper: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1104/1104.3014v1.pdf The CO layer estimated to extend out to ~4 R[adii of Pluto] is thus inside this flow zone and can be expected to be stable. Strobel (2008) models a slower hydrodynamic outflow inside this