[meteorite-list] impact melts

2002-04-25 Thread David Calongne

  why are they so expensive, hi all, why aren't they common as brecca
the make-up of a creater would seem to be half brecca and half impact
melt   happy collecting david


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Re: [meteorite-list] Stable Nantan Huh???

2002-04-25 Thread SHELLY1999

Hello Jeff,
It sounds like the plastic bag is made from PVC plastic which over time will
exude that color of residue. I am also a coin collector and have found that
this type of plastic will ruin coins and any other item placed into it. PVC
is found in the softer plastics. The harder the plastic the less PVC or none
at all. I would remove any item you wish to maintain over a long period of
time from it. If I can be of any assistance please let me know. I also have
some ideas on preservation that I have been trying you might be interested
in.
Yours,
Michael Mikowski

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 G'day List,

 Well just when you think you have that elusive Stable Nantan;
 HHEELLOO RUST! I just found a single 90g Nantan that I forgot
about
 and left in a small, sealed, plastic bag. It is showing some very slight
 signs of rust, but what intrigued me was a pale green oily residue that
has
 formed inside the bag all by itself. I've decided to just leave it for the
 moment and see what happens, but does anyone else have any idea what it
 could be?

 Oh, and by the way. I think the term Stable Nantan should probably be an
 'oxymoron'. Which I guess would make Rusty Nantan a 'tautology'!

 Happy Nantan cleaning,

 Jeff


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[meteorite-list] Thursday's Shameless Ebay Auction Plug

2002-04-25 Thread Jim Strope



Incredible bargains still available of run-of-the-mill meteorites that 
everyone probably already has in their collections. See link:

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[meteorite-list] Insurers Are Now Looking At Some Far-Out Risk Possibilities

2002-04-25 Thread Ron Baalke


http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/Business/34294740D43F660A86256BA6000AB26E?OpenDocumentHeadline=Insurers%20are%20now%20looking%20at%20some%20far-out%20risk%20possibilities%20

Insurers are now looking at some far-out risk possibilities
BY PHILIPP GOELLNER
Bloomberg News
April 24, 2002

ZURICH - What could be worse than the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11? A meteor falling on a world capital or a tidal
wave flooding the U.S. East Coast, scientists working for
reinsurance companies say.

Swiss Reinsurance Co. and Munich Re are looking for future
calamities that could cost their companies billions of
dollars in claims, or bankrupt them. Their risk experts
monitor science journals and news reports and draw up
mathematical models to put a price tag on potential
tragedies.

A meteorite crashing into Earth could cause many times the
estimated $58 billion in damage from the attacks of Sept.
11, leveling an area the size of three cities and sending
up a huge dust cloud capable of chilling the global
climate for decades, according to Munich Re. In another
scenario, parts from old satellites and rocket stages slam
into Los Angeles or London.

Before September 11, the public would have considered
these threats too remote to be taken seriously, said
Ernst Rauch, a geophysicist who heads a team of 20
scientists, meteorologists and hydrologists in the global
risk research unit at Munich Re, the world's biggest
reinsurer, We would have been laughed at.

The purpose of the research is not just to identify
once-outlandish risks. Insurers and reinsurers - which
assume the risk of disaster for insurers - say they need
to review the wording of policies to exclude or limit
coverage for losses from meteors or other previously
unimagined disasters.

We're now taking a different view on risk, said Marcel
Burge, head of risk engineering services at Zurich-based
Swiss Re, the world's second-biggest reinsurer. We have
to protect the bottom line.

Traditional worst-case loss scenarios didn't contemplate
teams of terrorists commandeering commercial jets and
crashing them into buildings. The attacks on the World
Trade Center towers and the Pentagon killed more than
3,000 people. The attacks caused the insurance industry's
largest-ever loss.

Because insurers didn't exclude terrorism-related costs as
they do damage caused by war, the Sept. 11 attacks led to
claims against almost all lines of insurance, including
property, life, worker's compensation, business
interruption, accident and health and aviation and space.

Swiss Re posted a loss of about $120 million (200 million
Swiss francs) last year after $1.79 billion in claims from
the attacks of Sept. 11. Munich Re's 2001 profit fell 86
percent partly because of $1.9 billion in attack losses.
Lloyd's of London had a loss of $4.51 billion (3.1 billion
pounds) last year after the terrorist attacks left the
three-centuries old insurance market with its biggest-ever
bill from a disaster.

Reinsurers say they can't afford another terrorist attack.
Many have excluded terrorism-related losses while raising
rates on other lines. Swiss Re, Allianz AG, Zurich
Financial Services AG, XL Capital Ltd. and Hannover Re
said this month they are forming a joint venture to offer
property coverage against terrorist attacks on buildings.

Actuaries rely on historical data to assess the chances of
disasters such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and wind
storms. As a result, reinsurers are able to make a profit
by charging more in premiums than they would be required
to pay out under normal risk conditions. The hard part is
defining normal.

Like airborne terrorist attacks on Manhattan, meteorites
that strike the earth are rare. Around 100 tons of dust
and small stones reach the earth's atmosphere every day,
according to a study by Munich Re, and most burn up in the
atmosphere where they can be seen as shooting stars. Only
larger objects with a diameter of several meters reach the
ground intact.

About 100 such strikes were documented in the last
century. A 98-foot meteorite that exploded over the
Tunguska region of Siberia on June 30, 1908, created a
shock wave that felled all trees in an area the size of
Berlin, Moscow and London put together. No deaths were
reported.

Ivo Menzinger, one of 17 specialists studying natural
catastrophe risks at Swiss Re, said the company has been
looking at the possibility of a huge tidal wave spawned by
underwater volcanoes or earthquakes. One scenario
contemplates a large chunk of the Canary Islands breaking
off and triggering a megatsunami that reaches Manhattan,
Menzinger said.

Not all reinsurers are devising meteor and tidal wave
scenarios. Lloyd's of London regularly draws up what it
calls realistic disaster scenarios, such as two large
planes crashing into a big city or a tall building
collapsing, said spokeswoman Sara Chorley.

At Converium Holding AG, the Zurich-based reinsurer spun
off from Zurich Financial in December, actuaries said the

[meteorite-list] UFOs Sighted In Beijing Sky

2002-04-25 Thread Ron Baalke



http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2002/0425/cn9-2.html

UFOs sighted in Beijing sky
Shanghai Star
April 25, 2002

MONDAY between 7:00pm and 9:00pm, many Beijing residents were
startled to spot four spiraling and sparkling unidentified
flying objects (UFOs) in the evening sky near Asian Games
Village, Wa Li and Qing He. Over 10 readers called local media
about the strange appearance, Beijing Times reported.

At about 8:00pm, four sparkling UFOs appeared in the southwest
sky, but no strange noises accompanied them, according to
observations of one reporter.

These unknown UFOs moved across a wide range and were
surrounded with a kind of light yellow brightness.

According to a reporter's estimates, they were flying at about
10 kilometres high. For most of the time the objects were
visible, they moved in two groups of two.

At about 9:00pm, the UFOs disappeared under gradual cloud
cover.

The UFOs attracted many people, with most saying they had
never seen such strange things.

Though there are piles of reports about unknown flying objects
from home and abroad, nothing has yet been proven, according
to the deputy director of Beijing Planetarium surnamed Zhang.

There has never been an official conclusion providing a
scientific explanation for UFOs, according to Zhang.

Over the last hundred years, there have been more than 10,000
records of UFO sightings, according to Lan Songzhu, engineer
of Xinglong Observation Station of Beijing Astronomical
Observatory.

About 95 per cent of these sightings have been shown to be
phenomena related to astronomy, atmospheric or the globe
magnetic field. There is still no proof of the existence of
extraterrestrial life, noted Lan.

Lan said there UFOs come in four types. One is the appearance
of satellites, dust storms, meteor rains or sparkling clouds.
The second kind of UFO can be broken piece of a flying object.
The third can be big throngs of locust or butterflies. The
last can be planes.

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[meteorite-list] Mystery Meteorite with a Molten Past (NWA 011)

2002-04-25 Thread Ron Baalke


http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current/article_585_1.asp

Mystery Meteorite with a Molten Past 
Sky  Telescope News Brief
April 25, 2002

Planetary scientists suspect that many primordial asteroids must 
have grown large enough to melt completely, yielding iron-rich 
cores and silicate crusts before being shattered to pieces. After 
all, the iron meteorites reaching Earth comprise dozens of unique 
compositional types. Yet, among the thousands of known meteorites, 
only a relative handful consist of basalt, the igneous rock type 
that would be most common in those asteroidal crusts - and until 
recently all of them seemed to have come from a single source, 
4 Vesta. In the April 12th issue of Science, Akira Yamaguchi 
(National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo) and nine colleagues 
argue that a 40-gram stone called Northwest Africa 011 is a basaltic 
meteorite entirely unlike those from Vesta. Its parent body is unknown; 
one candidate is 1459 Magnya, an outer-belt object that was found to
have a basalt spectrum two years ago. Still, though lacking a pedigree, 
NWA 011 is a significant find. As asteroid expert Richard P. Binzel 
(MIT) explains, Yamaguchi's results (and those for 1459 Magnya) are the 
'eureka' that complement what the iron meteorites have been telling us: 
there must have been other Vestas out there. 

Online access to Science is restricted, but Yamaguchi's abstract can be 
found at:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/296/5566/334. 

--

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/296/5566/334

A New Source of Basaltic Meteorites Inferred from Northwest Africa 011  

  Akira Yamaguchi,[12*] Robert N. Clayton,[3] Toshiko K. Mayeda,[3] 
  Mitsuru Ebihara,[4] Yasuji Oura,[4] Yayoi N. Miura,[5] Hiroshi Haramura,[1] 
  Keiji Misawa,[12] Hideyasu Kojima,[12] Keisuke Nagao[6] 

  Eucrites are a class of basaltic meteorites that share common 
  mineralogical, isotopic, and chemical properties and are thought to 
  have been derived from the same parent body, possibly asteroid 4 Vesta. 
  The texture, mineralogy, and noble gas data of the recently 
  recovered meteorite, Northwest Africa (NWA) 011, are similar to those 
  of basaltic eucrites. However, the oxygen isotopic composition of 
  NWA011 is different from that of other eucrites, indicating that NWA011 
  may be derived from a different parent body. The presence of basaltic
  meteorites with variable oxygen isotopic composition suggests the 
  occurrence of multiple basaltic meteorite parent bodies, perhaps 
  similar to 4 Vesta, in the early solar system. 

  1 Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar 
Research, Tokyo 173-8515, Japan. 
  2 The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Tokyo 173-8515, Japan. 
  3 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. 
  4 Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, 
Tokyo 192-0397, Japan. 
  5 Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan. 
  6 Laboratory for Earthquake Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 
113-0033, Japan. 

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[meteorite-list] Ensisheim -- Looking 1-2 gram slice

2002-04-25 Thread SSachs9056

Greetings list,

Received my Ensisheim art print and it is absolutely beautiful. Am looking for 1-2 
gram slice to put on display with print. Please contact me off list if you have a 
slice for sale. Matteo...do you still have your specimen for sale?
Best,

Steve

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[meteorite-list] Stable Nantan Huh???

2002-04-25 Thread Bernd Pauli HD

Hello Michael, Jeff, and List,

 It is showing some very slight signs of rust, but
 what intrigued me was a pale green oily residue
 that  has formed inside the bag all by itself.

 It sounds like the plastic bag is made from PVC plastic
 which over time will exude that color of residue.

You should also consider the occurrence of  l a w r e n c i t e !

References:

NORTON O.R. (1998) RFSII, pp. 169-170.

NORTON O.R. (1999) Is Lawrencite a myth?
(M!, May 1999, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 22-23).

and a very thorough discussion of the lawrencite
problem with chemical reaction formulas:

NORTON O.R. (2002) Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites, pp. 61-63.


Best regards,

Bernd

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[meteorite-list] Plotting Months and Days - Part 1

2002-04-25 Thread Bernd Pauli HD

AL recently had a brilliant idea:

 I wonder if anyone has tried to plot months and days related to
 meteorite classes to see if any correlation of types on certain
 fall days exists? If streams could be predicted then we could have
 watchers for this material coming down, plotting the falls with
 various observers or camera networks.

A tremendous amount of database work - and I have only
been able to do the query for H chondrites so far - but the
first results look very, very promising!!!

In a first run, I've looked for multiple falls for all of the 12 months
and the respective days of the months for all of the H3, H4, H5, H6
chondrite falls. I did not include the H3-4, H3-5, H3-6, H4-5, and
the H5-6 types because, statistically, they are irrelevant.

Here are my first results:

a) Total H4 chondrites Oct 31: 02

b) Total H5 chondrites Feb 26: 02
c) Total H5 chondrites Apr 10: 02
d) Total H5 chondrites May 02: 02
e) Total H5 chondrites May 24: 02
f) Total H5 chondrites May 27: 02 [time interval between (e)/(f)]
g) Total H5 chondrites Jun 16: 02  [only three days] 
h) Total H5 chondrites Jul 24: 02

 i) Total H5 chondrites Aug 11: 02*
 j) Total H5 chondrites Aug 12: 02*

 k) Total H5 chondrites Sep 04: 02**
 l) Total H5 chondrites Sep 05: 03**

m) Total H5 chondrites Oct 11: 02
n) Total H5 chondrites Nov 12: 02
o) Total H5 chondrites Nov 17: 02
p) Total H5 chondrites Nov 26: 02
q) Total H5 chondrites Dec 30: 02

 r) Total H6 chondrites Jan 19: 03***
s) Total H6 chondrites Jun 12: 02
t) Total H6 chondrites Sep 23: 02
u) Total H6 chondrites Sep 29: 02
v) Total H6 chondrites Oct 20: 02
w) Total H6 chondrites Nov 05: 02

* There is a noticeable clustering around Aug 11, 12
   with four H5 chondrites on two successive days !

** An even denser clustering for Sep 04, 05
with a total of five H5 chondrites !!

*** Three H6 chondrites on Jan 19! But, as AL already mentioned
 the next step would be that one has to find out whether there
 is a leap year not only for these three falls but for all of them!

We should always keep in mind that this is a purely statistical survey
and thus should not infer too quickly that these clusterings represent a
true orbital distribution of meteorite groups - Corrections would have
to be made for the Earth's diurnal and annual rotation, time zones, the
meteoroids' orbital parameters and orbital dimensions, just to mention
a few that come to mind! But still I think that we have just begun to
scratch the tip of the iceberg !

More will follow soon - time permitting ... My next database query will
more closely examine the H chondrites with subsequent fall days, i.e.:
Apr 17 and Apr 18, etc.


Best wishes,

Bernd

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[meteorite-list] Thanks and Ebay Auctions.....

2002-04-25 Thread Michael Cottingham



Hello Everyone,


Many thanks to everyone who sent kind and 
thoughtful
prayers and remarks to me last week! It 
really helped
me a lot and during my darkest hour...lightened 
things
a bit.My 
family is still recovering and the progress will 
be slow, but some things will take forever.

It felt good to get back to meteorites a 
bitalmost
a form of therapy at this time.for me at 
least.

I managed to get 68 auctions on ebay for this 
week.
Please check them out.

Go to:

http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/

Thanks  Best Wishes

Michael Cottingham


Re: [meteorite-list] Plotting Months and Days - Aubrites

2002-04-25 Thread FRANK B CRESSY

Hello Bernd, Al and all,

I had already done this for the aubrites (easy, there are only nine falls).
Although its a very small group and may not be statistically relevant, there
are two clusters; one at April 8  9, and one at August 2  3.
The aubrite falls, from earliest to most recent are:
Sept. 14, 1836 Aubres
March 25, 1943Bishopville
Dec. 2, 1852 Bustee
April 9, 1919 Cumberland Falls
April 8, 1932 Khor Temiki
Oct. 2, 1933  Pesyanoe
Aug. 2, 1946 Pena Blanca Springs
Feb. 18, 1948   Norton County
Aug. 3, 1974 Mayo Belwa

And just to get the humor out of the way, I'll be the first one who notices
that nearly half of the Aubrite falls occur in months starting with the
letter A.
A coincidence? You be the judge ;-)

Regards,
Frank


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Subject: [meteorite-list] Plotting Months and Days - Part 1


 AL recently had a brilliant idea:

  I wonder if anyone has tried to plot months and days related to
  meteorite classes to see if any correlation of types on certain
  fall days exists? If streams could be predicted then we could have
  watchers for this material coming down, plotting the falls with
  various observers or camera networks.

 A tremendous amount of database work - and I have only
 been able to do the query for H chondrites so far - but the
 first results look very, very promising!!!

 In a first run, I've looked for multiple falls for all of the 12 months
 and the respective days of the months for all of the H3, H4, H5, H6
 chondrite falls. I did not include the H3-4, H3-5, H3-6, H4-5, and
 the H5-6 types because, statistically, they are irrelevant.

 Here are my first results:

 a) Total H4 chondrites Oct 31: 02

 b) Total H5 chondrites Feb 26: 02
 c) Total H5 chondrites Apr 10: 02
 d) Total H5 chondrites May 02: 02
 e) Total H5 chondrites May 24: 02
 f) Total H5 chondrites May 27: 02 [time interval between (e)/(f)]
 g) Total H5 chondrites Jun 16: 02  [only three days]
 h) Total H5 chondrites Jul 24: 02

  i) Total H5 chondrites Aug 11: 02*
  j) Total H5 chondrites Aug 12: 02*

  k) Total H5 chondrites Sep 04: 02**
  l) Total H5 chondrites Sep 05: 03**

 m) Total H5 chondrites Oct 11: 02
 n) Total H5 chondrites Nov 12: 02
 o) Total H5 chondrites Nov 17: 02
 p) Total H5 chondrites Nov 26: 02
 q) Total H5 chondrites Dec 30: 02

  r) Total H6 chondrites Jan 19: 03***
 s) Total H6 chondrites Jun 12: 02
 t) Total H6 chondrites Sep 23: 02
 u) Total H6 chondrites Sep 29: 02
 v) Total H6 chondrites Oct 20: 02
 w) Total H6 chondrites Nov 05: 02

 * There is a noticeable clustering around Aug 11, 12
with four H5 chondrites on two successive days !

 ** An even denser clustering for Sep 04, 05
 with a total of five H5 chondrites !!

 *** Three H6 chondrites on Jan 19! But, as AL already mentioned
  the next step would be that one has to find out whether there
  is a leap year not only for these three falls but for all of them!

 We should always keep in mind that this is a purely statistical survey
 and thus should not infer too quickly that these clusterings represent a
 true orbital distribution of meteorite groups - Corrections would have
 to be made for the Earth's diurnal and annual rotation, time zones, the
 meteoroids' orbital parameters and orbital dimensions, just to mention
 a few that come to mind! But still I think that we have just begun to
 scratch the tip of the iceberg !

 More will follow soon - time permitting ... My next database query will
 more closely examine the H chondrites with subsequent fall days, i.e.:
 Apr 17 and Apr 18, etc.


 Best wishes,

 Bernd

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[meteorite-list] Starshine 2 Return

2002-04-25 Thread Ron Baalke


http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/25apr_starshine2.htm

Starshine 2 Return
NASA Science News

A glittering satellite named Starshine 2 will disintegrate in Earth's
atmosphere on April 26th.

April 25, 2002: For some months now sky watchers have occasionally looked up
and seen a curious flashing light in the sky. Pulsing as brightly as a first
magnitude star, it would appear, race across the heavens, and be gone in a
matter of moments. A high-powered telescope -- if one could be made to track
the fast-moving thing -- would reveal a half-meter wide sphere, spinning and
studded with sunlight-reflecting mirrors. A disco ball in space.

In fact, it's a satellite. Scientists and the students who helped them build
it call the orb Starshine 2. It was carried to Earth-orbit by NASA's space
shuttle Endeavour in Dec. 2001. But now, only five months later, Starshine 2
is falling back to Earth. Experts say it will disintegrate in the atmosphere
like a vivid meteor on April 26th.

I'm thrilled, says Gil Moore, the director of Project Starshine. This is
exactly what Starshine 2 is supposed to do.

Project Starshine is a consortium of volunteers supported by the US Naval
Research Laboratory, the Space Grant Program, and NASA. Together, they work
to involve school-age kids in cutting-edge research. Starshine 2 is one of
their many successes.

The satellite, which is dotted with mirrors ground by thousands of students,
is on a mission to explore the outermost reaches of our planet -- a
super-thin layer of the atmosphere called the thermosphere. The thermosphere
is so thin (1012 times less dense than air at sea level) it seems more like
a part of space than a part of Earth. Indeed, many Earth-orbiting satellites
are inside it.

There's a lot we don't about the thermosphere -- particularly how it
responds to solar activity, says Moore. Starshine 2 is helping us
understand that by falling back to Earth.

He explains: As satellites skim through the upper atmosphere, sparse
molecules of air nip away at their kinetic energy little by little. This
aerodynamic friction causes all spacecraft in low-Earth orbit to fall.
Even the International Space Station sinks, albeit slowly, and must
occasionally be reboosted to counteract the drag.

If the thermosphere were steady, figuring out the decay rates of
Earth-orbiting spacecraft would be easy. But it's not. The thermosphere
expands and contracts in response to solar activity.

Last week, for example, explosions on the Sun hurled three coronal mass
ejections (or CMEs) into space and toward Earth. When the electrified
clouds swept past our planet they warmed the thermosphere and caused it to
expand. (They also triggered beautiful Northern Lights.) The puffed-up
atmosphere exerted more drag than usual on Earth-orbiting satellites.

By monitoring the orbit of Starshine 2, we can see how the thermosphere
responds to such events, says Moore.

When Starshine 2 was launched, Moore and colleagues expected it to return to
Earth in June. It's returning early because the Sun has been extra-active
during the first months of 2002. The ongoing solar maximum is
double-peaked, explains Moore. The first peak happened in 2000. The second
peak, which no one expected, coincided more or less with the launch of
Starshine 2 -- it was perfect timing!

On April 26th Starshine 2 will sink below the stratosphere and disintegrate.
The end will be spectacular, predicts Moore. If re-entry happens at night,
sky watchers will see a brilliant fireball -- much like a bright Leonid
meteor, only slower moving. No one will know exactly where the fireball will
appear until a few hours before the end; orbital decay is that
unpredictable. Click here for the latest re-entry predictions.

There's no danger to anyone on the ground, Moore assures. We designed the
satellite so that it will be 100% consumed about 80 km up. Except for a few
small steel screws, the body of the spacecraft (including the mirrors) is
made entirely of aluminum -- a substance that will vaporize during the fiery
descent. We had no choice, quips Moore. Otherwise I was going to have to
buy a 100 million dollar insurance policy with a $50,000 premium. The
aluminum was cheaper.

The end of Starshine 2, welcomed as it is by researchers, might seem a sad
occasion for the many school kids who helped grind and polish its glittering
mirrors and who have tracked it faithfully for months. But it's not the end
of Project Starshine. Indeed, Starshine 2's larger cousin Starshine 3
(launched aboard a Kodiak Star rocket in Sept. 2001) remains in orbit around
our planet. It won't likely descend until October or November 2002.
Meanwhile, Starshine 4 and Starshine 5 are slated to launch on board a NASA
shuttle early next year.

The truth is, many kids, including kids-at-heart like Gil Moore, love the
idea that they helped make a fireball. They'll gladly do it again and again
(indeed, Moore has plans for Starshine 6 and beyond). And if scientists can
learn something 

[meteorite-list] Ebay Item # 1097060071

2002-04-25 Thread Greg Redfern

Good Evening List members,

   If you have time, check out what I think is a very bad meteorite wrong at
the listing of Meteorite Found in Farmers Field, from the Mountains of PA.
Has the texture of pumice and certainly looks terrestrial.

Greg Redfern
IMCA #5781
www.meteoritecollectors.org




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[meteorite-list] 26 April 1803....

2002-04-25 Thread Matteo Chinellato

Hello all

199 years ago, the 26 April 1803, to L'Aigle was a
meteorite rain that beloved totally changed the ideas
on this argument to we beloved. It can be very said 
199 years ago the true meteorite collectors were born.
Today is born my new sale site, I want give a big
thanks for the work to Rhett Bourland, you see this in
the same url.
Regards

Matteo


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