Re: [meteorite-list] Eclipse, and Ensisheim show

2002-06-10 Thread Matteo Chinellato

Hello all

I no come in Ensisheim, but I have some friends come
in Venice for know me, nice this for me :-) In the
2001 year is come Ivan here in Venice.
Regards

matteo

--- Michael Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just looked at the eclipse from my back porch here
> in Tucson where it is 7:00 pm and still over 100
> degrees out! The Sun is about 1/3 covered. Very nice
> view. We finally have clear skies after 2 weeks of
> the Mount Lemmon fire. Unfortunately about 50% of
> the mountain range burned in the fire. 
> I hope all of you in Colorado are safe, MATT MORGAN?
> We all need to wish them well, as Matt lives in the
> mountains near Denver, hopefully the fire is not
> there? Anne, Maybe you can shed some light on that. 
> 
> On another note, I will be leaving Sunday for Europe
> and will be visiting the Vienna Collection before
> attending the Ensisheim meteorite show. Who else on
> the list will be attending? 
> Mike Farmer
> 


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Re: [meteorite-list] Smoked Glass/black polymer filters

2002-06-10 Thread Bob King

I'd stay away from smoked glass and stick to the recommended #14 
welders glass or a set of cardboard glasses with mylar filters or the 
black polymer filters. In my opinion the black polymer material gives the 
best views hands down. I used mine for the eclipse this evening and the 
images are perfectly sharp with a nice orange sun against a pure black 
background.  Check out these websites: 
www.rainbowsymphony.com/soleclipse.html and 
www.thousandoaksoptical.com/viewers.html for purchase. 
There's plenty of time to stock up as the next solar eclipse visible from 
the mainland U.S. will be on April 8, 2005 ;-)
Bob King


> I wasn't aware that smoked glass is a safe way to view a partial eclipse of 
> the Sun.
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[meteorite-list] Solar Eclipse from Dallas, Texas

2002-06-10 Thread CMcdon0923

Here are a few images taken from (just north of) Dallas.


http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/cmcdon0923/lst2?.tok=bc6eW0PBMj3krl62&;
.dir=/Eclipse+061002

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[meteorite-list] Smoked Glass

2002-06-10 Thread UFOGlows

I wasn't aware that smoked glass is a safe way to view a partial eclipse of 
the Sun.

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[meteorite-list] Re:OT: solar eclipse - I Have Pictures!!!!

2002-06-10 Thread Mark Miconi

I viewed the eclipse with my son by using a pair of binoculars. We pointed
the large end of the binos toward the sun and let the image come through the
eyepiece. We focused the image against a cardboard box... Basically the same
as a pinhole except the image can be made as large as a quarter.

I have pics taken at 18:25 - 18:28 local time from my location in Phoenix.

If you want them email me and I will send them to you. There are roughly 10
pics. PLEASE state whether you want them sent as an attachment or in the
body of the email.

Mark Miconi
Phoenix AZ

- Original Message -
From: wrecks463
To: Matson, Robert ; 'John Gwilliam' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: solar eclipse


I prefer to use a # 10 or 12 welding lens. totally safe
- Original Message -
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To: 'John Gwilliam' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:04 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: solar eclipse


Hi John,

> My eight year old daughter and I used a smoked glass plus the pin hole
method
> of viewing the eclipse.

I expect you'll get some "no-no" mail from a few people for using
smoked glass to view the eclipse --Rob


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[meteorite-list] (no subject)

2002-06-10 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!

In years gone by, for a solar eclipse, I've used a sun filter on my 8in."
celeston reflecting telescope. It is the best way to view an Eclipse.

  steve arnold, chicago!!!

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Re: [meteorite-list] OT: solar eclipse

2002-06-10 Thread wrecks463



I prefer to use a # 10 or 12 welding lens. totally 
safe

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Matson, Robert 
  To: 'John Gwilliam' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:04 PM
  Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: solar 
  eclipse
  
  Hi 
  John,
   
  > 
  My eight year old daughter and I used a smoked glass plus the 
  pin hole method 
  > of viewing the eclipse. 
   
  I 
  expect you'll get some "no-no" mail from a few people for 
  using
  smoked glass to view the eclipse 
  --Rob


[meteorite-list] OT: solar eclipse

2002-06-10 Thread Matson, Robert



Hi 
John,
 
> 
My eight year old daughter and I used a smoked glass plus the pin 
hole method 
> of viewing the eclipse. 
 
I 
expect you'll get some "no-no" mail from a few people for 
using
smoked glass to view the eclipse 
--Rob


Re: [meteorite-list] OT: solar eclipse

2002-06-10 Thread John Gwilliam



Same here in Tempe (Phoenix).  My eight year old daughter and I used
a smoked glass plus the pin hole method of viewing the eclipse.  The
best part about it was the  15F temperature drop;-)

John

At 06:42 PM 6/10/02 -0700, Matson, Robert wrote:
Hi
All,
 
Great eclipse view here in Los
Angeles.  Peak was about 30 minutes ago.
Totally clear for once...!  --Rob


Re: [meteorite-list] solar eclipse and (unrelated) the K-T impactor

2002-06-10 Thread wrecks463



The solar eclipse here in Tucson is awesome. Not 
quite as good as the one we had about 8 or 9 years ago but awsome just the same. 
Its taken a bite out of the left side of about 70% and starting to peter out 
right now. Kinda makes me wonder what the Earth looks like from the moon right 
now.

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Tracy 
  Latimer 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:16 
AM
  Subject: [meteorite-list] solar eclipse 
  and (unrelated) the K-T impactor
  First off, there is a partial solar eclipse scheduled 
  today.  People inthe western half of the U.S. will be able to get the 
  best view, up to 75%coverage on the west coast, starting in the late 
  afternoon.  I wouldwelcome hearing about it from anyone who has a 
  chance to observe it!Secondly, one of my friends went on a rampage 
  through the discount bin atBorders yesterday and bought the Big Book of 
  Dinosaur Questions, achildren's book that had more fascinating information 
  than most eruditeadult books.  Anyway, among the things he read 
  were:a.  The Chixulub impactor came in at a shallow (20 degrees 
  orthereabouts) angle, which showered the western portion of North 
  Americawith debris and caused a MUCH bigger dieback than if the meteorite 
  hadcome in straight down, as is commonly portrayed.  Kinda like 
  having awater fight with your friends; when you use your hand tospray 
  water atthem by scooping it along the surface of the pool.b.  A 
  drilling team in the Pacific Northwest thinks the may have recovereda tiny 
  fragment of the original impactor from sediments brought up from anocean 
  floor core.  First off, I had no idea pieces of the impactor 
  biggerthan molecular size would remain, and second off, as a collector, 
  HOW DO IGET MY HANDS ON SOME OF THIS STUFF?!?!?This is WAY cool.If 
  anyone has more information, web links, comments, etc. I'd like to 
  hearabout it.  Thanks for letting me take up your 
  bandwidth.Tracy 
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[meteorite-list] Eclipse, and Ensisheim show

2002-06-10 Thread Michael Farmer



I just looked at the eclipse from my back porch 
here in Tucson where it is 7:00 pm and still over 100 degrees out! The Sun 
is about 1/3 covered. Very nice view. We finally have clear skies after 2 weeks 
of the Mount Lemmon fire. Unfortunately about 50% of the mountain range burned 
in the fire. 
I hope all of you in Colorado are safe, MATT 
MORGAN? We all need to wish them well, as Matt lives in the mountains near 
Denver, hopefully the fire is not there? Anne, Maybe you can shed some light on 
that. 
 
On another note, I will be leaving Sunday for 
Europe and will be visiting the Vienna Collection before attending the Ensisheim 
meteorite show. Who else on the list will be attending? 
Mike Farmer


[meteorite-list] Annular eclipse from Los Angeles

2002-06-10 Thread meteorite1.com



http://www.meteorite1.com/Annular_eclipse.jpg
 
Ron Hartman [pic by Ricky (son)]
www.meteorite1.com
 


[meteorite-list] OT: solar eclipse

2002-06-10 Thread Matson, Robert



Hi 
All,
 
Great 
eclipse view here in Los Angeles.  Peak was about 30 minutes 
ago.
Totally clear for once...!  
--Rob


Re: [meteorite-list] solar eclipse and (unrelated) the K-T impactor

2002-06-10 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 6/10/2002 12:18:35 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


First off, there is a partial solar eclipse scheduled today.  People in
the western half of the U.S. will be able to get the best view, up to 75%
coverage on the west coast, starting in the late afternoon.  I would
welcome hearing about it from anyone who has a chance to observe it!



Sorry Tracy.
We really can't see much in Denver today. 
Some clouds and a lot of smoke.

Anne Black
IMCA #2356
www.IMPACTIKA.com
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[meteorite-list] Thanks for the info and help all:o)

2002-06-10 Thread MrX3010
Thanks all, I think it's pretty clear this is a nice specimen of magnetite, which I cant complain about, it only cost me a quarter and I didn't have any in my collection so maybe next time I'll luck upon that meteorite LOL till then happy hunting.

Thanks again,
Ron


[meteorite-list] NWA 001, HENBURY, AND PORTALES VALLEY

2002-06-10 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!

Hi all. I'm looking for about 100 grams of a quality henbury, around 20 to
25 grams of portales valley w/nice metal veins, and around 15 or more gams
of NWA 001. Please let me know who has what out there. I'm willing to
trade for it. Or as usual, good old cash. Let me know.

steve arnold, chicago, the collector!!!

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Re: [meteorite-list] Help with Strange Rock Part2

2002-06-10 Thread magellon



Ron,
Grey streak is magnetite. Check out  Dave Freeman's  specimen.
 Hot
Rocks .
Ken Newton
#9632  me
 
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Ok I performed
a tile test on my suspect rock and it showed a grayish silver streak on
the tile so I don't think it's hematite.  So this is what I have:
1. It's well worn and shows
some signs of oxidation.
2. It's heavier than other
rocks it's size.
3. A magnet is strongly
drawn to it.
4. It seems to exhibit a
weak magnetic field but I only noticed this after subjecting it to a strong
magnet, in other words it might have resulted from that contact as it is
very weak. I.e.  (Only able to attract small pins and small paper
clip)
If anyone would like to
see a picture of it let me know I'll try to get some good shots of it today.
Next I will have a nickel
test performed on it, in the meantime are there any other tests that I
can do myself?
Thanks,
Ron





[meteorite-list] K-T Impactor

2002-06-10 Thread Bernd Pauli HD

Hello Tracy, David, and List,

Sky & Telescope, March 1999, p. 22: Piece of a Killer Asteroid ?

Like finding a stray bullet at a crime scene, a researcher believes he
has uncovered a long-sought chunk of the impactor thought to have
snuffed out 70 percent of the species of life on Earth 65 million years
ago. Scientists found the "smoking gun" in 1990: a 180-kilometer-wide
circular structure centered beneath the town of Puerto Chicxulub on the
coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. But no piece of the impactor had
surfaced.
Geochemist Frank T. Kyte (University of California, Los Angeles) has
been studying a core sample from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
containing dark clay marking the boundary of the Cretaceous and Tertiary
periods (the K-T boundary). As Kyte describes in Nature for November 19,
1998, the clay layer included a 4-millimeter-wide piece of
lighter-colored clay. Upon splitting open the nugget, he discovered a
fossil meteorite. More detailed examination of this sedimentary pearl
revealed that it contains high concentrations of iron oxides,
principally hematite.
While the mineralogy of the fossil meteorite has undoubtedly changed
over time, Kyte reports that the amounts of iron, chromium, and iridium
are nevertheless close to the ranges seen in carbonaceous chondrites, a
common meteorite type. Yet the specimen has one significant
compositional oddity: it has 1,000 times more gold than chondritic
meteorites commonly have, a curiosity that Kyte finds puzzling.
Because the ocean-floor sediments at the K-T boundary accumulated over
perhaps as much as 500,000 years, there is no way to prove that this
truly is a piece of the K-T impactor. However, a meteoritic impact is
most consistent with Kyte's analysis; he largely discounts the
possibilities that the material is interplanetary dust or cometary
debris. Moreover, he thinks it quite conceivable that a piece of the
asteroid that struck the Yucatán Peninsula survived the blast and landed
9,000 kilometers away.


BOND P. (1999) Fossilized remnant of dinosaur killer found (Astronomy
Now, 1999, Jan, p. 9):

The fossilized remnant of an asteroid that may have caused the global
extinction of dinosaurs has been found by Frank Kyte, a geochemist
from University of California at Los Angeles. In a recent issue of the
journal Nature, Kyte described how he found the fossil meteorite while
studying the boundary layer between Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments.
It was hidden in mud and buried on the bed of the Pacific Ocean.
Although the 2.5 mm long granule no longer contains all of its original
minerals, it has retained its original shape and texture. According to
Kyte, it is probably a fragment of the asteroid which collided with the
Earth near Mexico's Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago. His findings
suggest that the meteorite’s composition resembles a metal- and
sulphide-rich carbonaceous chondrite asteroid, as opposed to the porous
materials that would more likely be found in a comet. Detailed analysis
also identified high levels of iridium, an element found in relative
abundance in asteroid meteorites. This indicates that the dinosaur
killer was more likely to have been an asteroid than a comet. - Peter
Bond

Some references:

KYTE F.T. et al. (2001) K-T boundary impact debris
from DSDP site 577 (MAPS 36-9, 2001, A109).

KYTE F.T. (1996) Should we expect to find more pieces
of the K/T bolide? (abs. Meteoritics 31, 1996, A076).


Best regs,

Bernd

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Re: [meteorite-list] Tackling The Mysterious Portales Valley

2002-06-10 Thread David Weir

Hello Mark,

Glad you found my Portales Valley page, I have been adding to it ever
since it was first published. In fact, looking in the NASA ADS
Abstracts, there are dozens of published papers about Portales.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

Of course if you don't already have Acrobat Reader, you will need to
download this free program to be able to read .pdf files, which all of
these are saved as. 

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

>From the ADS Abstract page, just type inside the text box, Portales
Valley, and click Send Query. Then click on the full articles whenever
possible. 

What I consider the most interesting fact about Portales is not that
it's an impact breccia, but that the large metal veins are from a
different, earlier iron impactor, a IAB iron, in contrast to the smaller
IIE-type veins.

Let us know what you learn.

David 



Mark Fox wrote:
> 
> May 10, 2002
> 
> Greetings Mr Rhett Bourland and Fellow Meteorite
> Enthusiasts!
> 
> Good grief!  What an "unearthly" meteorite Portales
> Valley really is!  I just finished reading Meteorite
> Studies by Mr. David Weir, the link to which was
> kindly given to me by Mr. Ken Newton.  It even was
> mentioned there that there are many similarities
> between this meteorite and my favorite, "Rose City"!
> It looks like I will not be done anytime soon with
> pondering this meteoritic subject, among my many
> others!
> 
> According to Meteorite Studies, it appears that
> Portales Valley is indeed brecciated!  If I read
> right, David refers to the "stony" portions as the
> impact melt areas.  Is this correct?
> 
> Also, is there anymore easy-to-obtain information
> regarding Portales Valley that someone knows of?
> 
> The questions that I asked in my last post were just a
> precursor regarding this H6 unordinary chondrite.  I
> was going to use the data to propose a possible
> problem regarding one of the formation theories.  When
> time permits, and only if I still see the problem, I
> will post it for all to comment.
> 
> Long strewn fields!
> 
> Mark Fox
> Newaygo, MI USA
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[meteorite-list] TV Documentary with Iwan and Wolodia

2002-06-10 Thread Bernd Pauli HD

Hello All!

I am just back from watching a documentary with and about Iwan
and Wolodia that was aired on our German pay-TV channel "Planet"
tonight. I felt like salivating when I saw Iwan and Wolodia
hunting and finding Chinga pieces up to 15 kg with their metal
detectors.

There were pictures of huge Sikhote-Alin blocks at the Russian
Academy of Sciences, showpieces from their collections (for example
a perfectly oriented Pervomaisky stone which looks exactly like
Bob Haag's Venus stone :-)

There were pictures from Kulik's expedition, Soviet soldiers digging
up Sikhote Alin meteorites weighing up to 600 kg, Soviet and American
meteoriticists, and lots of members of this list at one of the recent 
Tucson Shows:

Marvin Kilgore, Fred Hall, Twink, the Nortons, Michael Blood (assisted
by Dean Bessey), Donald o'Keefe, Alain Carion, Anne Black, one of the
Labennes, and many, many more ...

The documentary will be aired once more:

1) Tuesday night at 21:35 MESZ
2) Thursday night at 01:00 MESZ
3) Thursday night at 22:20 MESZ
4) Saturday night at 00:40 MESZ

Title: Auf der Jagd nach Sternenstaub
   Hunting Star Dust


Best wishes,

Bernd

P.S.: I can't receive any mails at the moment as my server is down but I
saw Martin's congrats in our archives. Thank you, Martin. I am so proud
to own this celestial gem!

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Re: [meteorite-list] solar eclipse and (unrelated) the K-T impactor

2002-06-10 Thread David Weir

Hello Tracy,

I think this is very cool also, and I saved a picture of it some time
ago. Check it out:

http://www.geocities.com/dgweir/ktfossil.jpg

David

Tracy Latimer wrote:

> Secondly, one of my friends went on a rampage through the discount bin at
> Borders yesterday and bought the Big Book of Dinosaur Questions, a
> children's book that had more fascinating information than most erudite
> adult books.  Anyway, among the things he read were:
> a.  The Chixulub impactor came in at a shallow (20 degrees or
> thereabouts) angle, which showered the western portion of North America
> with debris and caused a MUCH bigger dieback than if the meteorite had
> come in straight down, as is commonly portrayed.  Kinda like having a
> water fight with your friends; when you use your hand tospray water at
> them by scooping it along the surface of the pool.
> b.  A drilling team in the Pacific Northwest thinks the may have recovered
> a tiny fragment of the original impactor from sediments brought up from an
> ocean floor core.  First off, I had no idea pieces of the impactor bigger
> than molecular size would remain, and second off, as a collector, HOW DO I
> GET MY HANDS ON SOME OF THIS STUFF?!?!?This is WAY cool.
> 
> If anyone has more information, web links, comments, etc. I'd like to hear
> about it.  Thanks for letting me take up your bandwidth.

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RE: [meteorite-list] Help with Strange Rock Part2

2002-06-10 Thread Matson, Robert



Sounds 
like magnetite to me.  If you file down a corner, the filings should 
be
lead-gray, and the process of creating the filings will 
likely impart magnetism
to 
them.  Magnetite has a density greater than that of ordinary chondrites, 
and
quite 
a bit less than iron, so if you can determine the specific gravity 
(mass
in 
grams divided by volume in cubic centimeters), you'll probably find it 
is
a 
match for magnetite (~5.2).  --Rob
 
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[meteorite-list] Help with Strange Rock Part2Ok I 
performed a tile test on my suspect rock and it showed a grayish silver streak 
on the tile so I don't think it's hematite.  So this is what I have: 1. 
It's well worn and shows some signs of oxidation. 2. It's heavier than other 
rocks it's size.3. A magnet is strongly drawn to it.4. It seems to 
exhibit a weak magnetic field but I only noticed this after subjecting it to a 
strong magnet, in other words it might have resulted from that contact as it is 
very weak. I.e.  (Only able to attract small pins and small paper 
clip)If anyone would like to see a picture of it let me know I'll try to get 
some good shots of it today. Next I will have a nickel test performed on 
it, in the meantime are there any other tests that I can do 
myself?Thanks,Ron 


[meteorite-list] Help with Strange Rock Part2

2002-06-10 Thread MrX3010
Ok I performed a tile test on my suspect rock and it showed a grayish silver streak on the tile so I don't think it's hematite.  So this is what I have: 
1. It's well worn and shows some signs of oxidation. 
2. It's heavier than other rocks it's size.
3. A magnet is strongly drawn to it.
4. It seems to exhibit a weak magnetic field but I only noticed this after subjecting it to a strong magnet, in other words it might have resulted from that contact as it is very weak. I.e.  (Only able to attract small pins and small paper clip)
If anyone would like to see a picture of it let me know I'll try to get some good shots of it today. 

Next I will have a nickel test performed on it, in the meantime are there any other tests that I can do myself?

Thanks,
Ron


Re: [meteorite-list] First Ureilite in my collection

2002-06-10 Thread Martin Horejsi

Bernd kindly wrote:

> I just received my very first ureilite, Dhofar 132. It weighs in at
> a whopping 9 grams


Hi Bernd,

Congratulations on your wonderful new specimen. Not only are urelites an
exciting and rare achondrite, but you got it for only $14 a gram!

I always wished that ureilites had been named after Harold Urey instead of
their type specimen. I think Urey should be honored with meteorite as odd as
the ureilite given his contributions to the field, and especially to his
graduate students who, while not following Urey's own train of thought, took
meteorite science to the next (and necessary) level.

Cheers,

Martin






























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[meteorite-list] solar eclipse and (unrelated) the K-T impactor

2002-06-10 Thread Tracy Latimer

First off, there is a partial solar eclipse scheduled today.  People in
the western half of the U.S. will be able to get the best view, up to 75%
coverage on the west coast, starting in the late afternoon.  I would
welcome hearing about it from anyone who has a chance to observe it!

Secondly, one of my friends went on a rampage through the discount bin at
Borders yesterday and bought the Big Book of Dinosaur Questions, a
children's book that had more fascinating information than most erudite
adult books.  Anyway, among the things he read were:
a.  The Chixulub impactor came in at a shallow (20 degrees or
thereabouts) angle, which showered the western portion of North America
with debris and caused a MUCH bigger dieback than if the meteorite had
come in straight down, as is commonly portrayed.  Kinda like having a
water fight with your friends; when you use your hand tospray water at
them by scooping it along the surface of the pool.
b.  A drilling team in the Pacific Northwest thinks the may have recovered
a tiny fragment of the original impactor from sediments brought up from an
ocean floor core.  First off, I had no idea pieces of the impactor bigger
than molecular size would remain, and second off, as a collector, HOW DO I
GET MY HANDS ON SOME OF THIS STUFF?!?!?This is WAY cool.

If anyone has more information, web links, comments, etc. I'd like to hear
about it.  Thanks for letting me take up your bandwidth.

Tracy Latimer


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Re: [meteorite-list] Dealer Warning

2002-06-10 Thread Rosemary Hackney

OK.. sniff sniff Matteo... I did not win my little purple rock.. you
know the one you warned me about.  snuiff sniff...Just at the moment of
victory and that elusive purple meteorwrong would have been mine..they
pulled the plug on the auction and revoked his auction privileges. sniff
sniff..

But good news the other meteorwrong ..I was asked about it just today..
and as I replied.. since it has made its humble abode in the basement for 50
years, I assumed it is housebroken and will make a very nice, wellbehaved
little pet rock :-)

So..maybe..just maybe... if  Pekka doesn't outbid me...I can put my pet rock
in the feed room to keep my little possum friend company.   :-)

Rosie
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Dealer Warning


> hello all
>
> I would appreciate that all the meteorite dealers
> contact to me in private, I must inform them of some
> personages little recommends to you that they try to
> swindle the dealers with false promises.
> Regards
>
> Matteo
>
>
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[meteorite-list] Tackling The Mysterious Portales Valley

2002-06-10 Thread Mark Fox

May 10, 2002

Greetings Mr Rhett Bourland and Fellow Meteorite
Enthusiasts!

Good grief!  What an "unearthly" meteorite Portales
Valley really is!  I just finished reading Meteorite
Studies by Mr. David Weir, the link to which was 
kindly given to me by Mr. Ken Newton.  It even was
mentioned there that there are many similarities
between this meteorite and my favorite, "Rose City"! 
It looks like I will not be done anytime soon with
pondering this meteoritic subject, among my many
others!   

According to Meteorite Studies, it appears that
Portales Valley is indeed brecciated!  If I read 
right, David refers to the "stony" portions as the
impact melt areas.  Is this correct?  
  
Also, is there anymore easy-to-obtain information
regarding Portales Valley that someone knows of? 

The questions that I asked in my last post were just a
precursor regarding this H6 unordinary chondrite.  I 
was going to use the data to propose a possible 
problem regarding one of the formation theories.  When
time permits, and only if I still see the problem, I
will post it for all to comment.  

Long strewn fields!

Mark Fox
Newaygo, MI USA

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[meteorite-list] Fw: Ebay Auctions...ending Today & Tomorrow !

2002-06-10 Thread Michael Cottingham



 
- Original Message - 
From: Michael 
Cottingham 
To: Michael Cottingham 
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 9:09 AM
Subject: Ebay Auctions...ending Today & Tomorrow !

Hello,
 
Gentle reminder that some fine auctions are 
going
to end today and tomorrow...on of course 
Ebay!
 
Go to:
 
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
 
Thanks & Have A Fine Day!
 
Michael Cottingham


RE: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Abee & Lucas

2002-06-10 Thread Julien Courtois

...and a happy birthday to me (june 10th), Lanxi (Fell 1986) & Sindhri (Fell
1901)

Somebody have a small piece for sale?

Regards,

Julien


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Happy birthday Abee and Lucas!  Abee you all know, and Lucas is my son who
turned 1 today (June 9)!  He has expensive taste in picking his birthday
meteorite!!

He and my daughter both teethed on Gibeons.  : )  Gotta love em.

Jeannie Devon
IMCA #9236
The Museum Store/The Nature Source
& The Historical Research Center
Anchorage, Alaska
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[meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Abee & Lucas

2002-06-10 Thread TMS/TNS/HRC



Happy birthday Abee and Lucas!  Abee you all know, and 
Lucas is my son who turned 1 today (June 9)!  He has expensive taste in 
picking his birthday meteorite!!  
 
He and my daughter both teethed on Gibeons.  : )  
Gotta love em.
 
Jeannie Devon
IMCA #9236
The Museum Store/The Nature Source& The Historical 
Research CenterAnchorage, Alaskawww.thenaturesource.com__No 
matter how far you go down the wrong road, turn back.-Turkish 
Proverb


[meteorite-list] Dealer Warning

2002-06-10 Thread Matteo Chinellato

hello all

I would appreciate that all the meteorite dealers
contact to me in private, I must inform them of some
personages little recommends to you that they try to
swindle the dealers with false promises. 
Regards

Matteo


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Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.com Collection Site: 
http://www.mcomemeteorite.info
International Meteorite Collectors Association #2140
MSN Messanger: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[meteorite-list] NWA 1058 acapulcoite update last warning

2002-06-10 Thread Matteo Chinellato

Hello all

The special price for the gr.4.5 end piece with crust
of my new acapulcoite is ended but continue for others
5 days on ebay, ended this time the price return to
$250/gr.  sorry, I no ruin the prices like
other persons... if you want see this piece you
find here with others pieces
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
this is my last addvise.
Regards

Matteo


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