[meteorite-list] the illinois meteorite bash, a week later.
Good morning all. I thought I would put in my 2 cents worth, since I orginized it.I had a great time. For me it started on saturday.I met rob and his lovely wife, and went to see the opening of where they will house the dupont meteorite collection.They had refreshments, pamphelts, brochures, etc. concerning the opening and history of the PSF.I also got to meet walter cunningham.One of the apollo astronaunts. It was a very nice afternoon.Than on sunday evening I went over to algonquin to get the festivities going.Rob, his wife, paul siperia, and greg wilson came down from rob's room after doing some under the table deals:)We sat down talked a while, took some pictures and had a good time.Then we walked in the 3 degree weather over to the pub,(that is for rob)where we got down to business.I bought a few rounds, rob bought us dinner, and we just sorta BS the whole evening away.I as the big winner of the evening as far as trading and selling meteorites.I got a 315 gram slice of odessa from steve witt.I gave up some good items also. Like greg said, it was kind of like a trade between the dodgers and the yankees.It was big.Rob bought some of my rare meteorites that I brought.Thanks rob.But for me the hightlight of the evening was getting my .560 gram slice of honolulu.It almost looks like martain material, but it highly magnetic, unlike mars meteorites.Well from there we got LAST CALL at 11:30, so then we walked in the 0 degree weather and did some BS, ing , got some coffee, did a couple of more trades. Then it was 1 o'clock in the morning and time for me to leave.(Hey did I not hear that once in KUNG FU).Well fun was had by all. I am looking forward to doing this again real soon.Rob will be coming back to chicago sometime this summer.This time we want to do a saturday night get together.We want as many people from where ever you live, to come up.I guarentee, a better time will had by all.Because like the good book says, it is all about the people.And it is what makes the world go round. PEOPLE!!I took about 11 pics, hope to have them posted soon.Have a great day. This is my 2 centes worth. steve arnold, IMCA #6728 chicago, ill, USA = Steve R.Arnold, Chicago, IL, 60120 I. M. C. A. MEMBER #6728 Illinois Meteorites Website url http://stormbringer60120.tripod.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] PALLASITE!!!
Maybe it's Michael Casper with a made up address. on 3/15/03 4:49 AM, almitt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys and Gals, If you keep throwing fuel on a fire it will keep burning. If you don't throw fuel on the fire it will go out or in this case away. Stop encouraging this lunatic unless you find this entertaining :-) I very much doubt this guy is for real. --AL __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list What luck for rulers that men do not think. Adolf Hitler -- Worth Seeing: - Earth at night from satelite: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg - Interactive Lady Liberty: http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm - Earth - variety of choices: http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html -- Panoramic view of Meteor Crater: http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/Arizona/GrandCanyonRoute66/MeteorCrater/Met eorCraterRimL.html -- Cool Calendar Clock: http://www.yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html -- Michael Blood Meteorites Didgeridoos for sale at: http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/ __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Stony-Iron
Hello All, Is the shirokovsky pallasite on the market? (and it's gram price when so). Thanks, Robert
Re: [meteorite-list] Stony-Iron
RYSC B schrieb: Hello All, Is the shirokovsky pallasite on the market? (and its gram price when so). Thanks, Robert Of course, it is! Go to: http://www.star-bits.com/thuathe.htm or see also: http://www.meteoriteguy.com/index Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] PALLASITE!
saw that thing!Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] chondrite with IM Breccia!
Hi Guys, I also have him blocked. I tried to have the list block him out over a month ago. Lets hope this time someone listens. Alan Quoting walter branch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Everyone, Okay, I'll mow some more in a minute. Ironically, I have this person (among others) in my Block Sender list which essentially means the only way I even know he posts to the list is when someone who is not on my list quotes or responds to him. BTW, it took about 4.57 seconds to add him to my list. -Walter - www.branchmeteorites.com - Original Message - From: Randy Mils To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] chondrite with IM Breccia! I think the best way to combat all this spam of ROCKS is to ignore it completely. From this day forward, I propose that no one on this list respond to these posts. Maybe if we ignore the posts, they will eventually stop. Randy From: M Yousef To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [meteorite-list] chondrite with IM Breccia! Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:13:10 + Dear Alll; Here is a very nice rock showing at the same time nice chonrules together with IM breccia. http://alifyaa.com/meteorite/cbr/index.html the IM breccia is similar to this rock: http://alifyaa.com/meteorite/br/index.html and the chondrite is like that you have seen in the previous two posts: http://alifyaa.com/meteorite/cnd/index.html http://alifyaa.com/meteorite/cnd2/index.html Best Wishes Mohamed H. Yousef -- _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] ga tektite for trade
i have 3 ga tektites for trade ( choose 1-sizes 10-17g) for HUGE nwa stone. needs to be solid ( cuttable) have some crust. windows ok. size DOES matter. pix on ebay now (seller: "clovisions"), but can take more w/ diff. light, etc. for serious inquiries.Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] the illinois meteorite bash, a week later.
In a message dated 15/03/2003 14:17:09 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PEOPLE!!I took about 11 pics, hope to have them posted soon. Folks, I didn't have my camera with me in Chicago, so I don't have any pictures to share. But, as luck would have it, someone sent me this today. That's me on the left, and Greg Wilson on the right, standing on an old apple box to make him look taller ;-) http://fernlea.tripod.com/robandgregory.jpg Cheers, Rob. www.meteorites.uk.com Fernlea Meteorites, The Wynd, Off Dickson Lane, Milton of Balgonie, Fife. KY7 6PY United Kingdom Tel: +44-(0)1592-751563 Fax: +44-(0)1592-751991 Mobile: 07909-773929 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[meteorite-list] Re: [meteoritecollectorsassociation] 695 GM - CERT'ED CANYON DIABLOMETEORITE...
Anne and All, I did write the seller asking who was the certifying authority. I have not received a reply..Will inform if I get an answer. Best Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/15/2003 7:55:49 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this 'CD' look strange? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2164419748 from the land of ugly meteorites, Yes, it does. It does not look at all like the one in my display case. Did you write to the seller? Anne Black IMCA #2356 www.IMPACTIKA.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] the illinois meteorite bash, a week later.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't have my camera with me in Chicago, so I don't have any pictures to share. But, as luck would have it, someone sent me this today. That's me on the left, and Greg Wilson on the right, standing on an old apple box to make him look taller ;-) http://fernlea.tripod.com/robandgregory.jpg HAHAHA!!! And you agreed to pose with this bozo for a picture? Hmmm.who's the biggest clown??? I don't know, you sure look comfy in there with Greg-O. Still chuckling, Dave __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] [meteoritecollectorsassociation] 695 GM - CERT'ED CANYON DIABLO METEORITE...
Looks fishy to me too! Did you ask him if it attracts a magnet? ; ) Jeannie been burned by non-CD material on Ebay Devon - Original Message - From: magellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 6:10 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: [meteoritecollectorsassociation] 695 GM - CERT'ED CANYON DIABLO METEORITE... Anne and All, I did write the seller asking who was the certifying authority. I have not received a reply..Will inform if I get an answer. Best Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/15/2003 7:55:49 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this 'CD' look strange? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2164419748 from the land of ugly meteorites, Yes, it does. It does not look at all like the one in my display case. Did you write to the seller? Anne Black IMCA #2356 www.IMPACTIKA.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Vesta in Virgo: A Naked-Eye Asteroid
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/asteroids/article_895_1.asp Vesta in Virgo: A Naked-Eye Asteroid By Greg Bryant Sky Telescope March 16, 2003 During the first half of 2003, observers with binoculars and small telescopes will be able to watch the asteroid 4 Vesta loop gracefully through the constellation Virgo, making its most favorable return in several years. On March 26th Vesta stands at opposition to the Sun and can be observed throughout the night. For several weeks before and after that date, with the help of the chart (left), it may even be glimpsed with the unaided eye. Vesta's favorable apparition continues through June and July, the period when it becomes best placed (highest in the sky) for viewing during early-evening hours. The constellation Virgo is famous for its galaxies, and Vesta's journey takes it past many such deep-sky denizens near the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. By the start of March Vesta is already magnitude 6.4; it peaks at 5.9 on March 27th, then fades to 6.4 by end of April. It continues a gradual decline to 7.0 on June 1st, 7.4 on July 1st, and 7.6 at the beginning of August. For some observers the mention of Vesta brings back memories of moonlight when it last reached opposition in our night skies, in July 2000. That year the asteroid became even brighter, peaking at magnitude 5.4, but on a night that coincided very nearly with the full Moon - and a total lunar eclipse! This year the Moon is well out of the way for observers wishing to catch sight of Vesta. In the Footsteps of Vesta's Discovery Among the tens of thousands of numbered asteroids in our solar system, Vesta is the only one that ever becomes so easy to spot. It actually brightens past magnitude 6.0 every few years. Such was the night of March 29, 1807, when German physician Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758-1840) discovered the unknown star that would soon be hailed as the fourth known asteroid. Olbers is best known today for the paradox he investigated: why the sky appears so dark at night (ST: December 2001, page 44). But he was no stranger to discoveries. He had earlier found 2 Pallas, the second known asteroid, in 1802. Three comets bear his name, and one of them returns every 70 years. He also devised an extremely efficient method for calculating a comet's orbit that is still in use today (for an initial solution, when the orbit can be assumed to be parabolic). Virgo was a charmed part of the sky for Olbers. In 1796 he found his second comet south of Virgo's brightest star, Spica. In 1802 he made the first recovery of 1 Ceres in Virgo (thanks to calculations by mathematician Carl F. Gauss), a year to the day after its discovery. A few months later he discovered Pallas in the northern part of Virgo. Five years and one day after that, he likewise spotted Vesta in Virgo, close to its current location. Vesta's track among the stars this year is rather similar to the course it took 196 years ago. Why So Bright? Vesta is not unlike other asteroids, and indeed the major planets, in that its brightness is not the same from one opposition to the next. For example, if we look at the period 1990-2020, Vesta's peak brightness ranges between 5.3 (June 2018) and 6.5 (November 1990). Over the next few years Vesta will shine as brightly as 6.1 in September 2004, 6.2 in January 2006, and 5.4 in May 2007 - when, during the bicentennial year of its discovery, it will again be brighter than Uranus. Obviously, the position of Vesta along its elliptical orbit is a contributing factor to the variation in visibility. The closer Vesta is to the Sun in its 3.6-year circuit, the closer it is likely to be to Earth. In 2003 Vesta doesn't reach perihelion, the point nearest the Sun, until October 28th, seven months after opposition. Then it will be just 2.15 astronomical units (Earth-Sun distances) from the Sun, compared to 2.57 a.u. at aphelion, the far point. Size is also a factor in Vesta's prominence, though not as much as you might think. According to the 2003 Astronomical Almanac, Vesta is believed to be 530 kilometers in diameter (though not a perfect sphere), edging out Pallas's width of 524 km. These values stand well in the shadow of Ceres' 933 km. In the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, 10 Hygiea ranks fourth place in size at 429 km. But no longer is it correct to say that these are the four largest asteroids. Several newly discovered objects in the far-flung Kuiper Belt - 2 Varuna, 28978 Ixion, and 5 Quaoar - may outrank even Ceres. Needless to say, those in the main belt are much easier to hunt down than those lying far beyond Neptune. Given that Vesta is neither the largest nor the closest of the asteroids, you might wonder what distinctive characteristic makes it so readily seen. The answer lies in its albedo, or surface reflectivity. Asteroids like Ceres reflect around 11 percent of the sunlight reaching their surfaces,
