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[meteorite-list] Park Forest pictures

[Maccers531]

For those of you who paid for park forest impact site pictures They 
will be shipped next week. I wasnt able to take the pictures last weekend due 
to the bad weather that we had. 

Thanks for your patience

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[meteorite-list] New Sky Survey Begins at Palomar Observatory

[Ron Baalke]

Media Relations
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Pasadena, California

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July 29, 2003

New Sky Survey Begins at Palomar Observatory

PALOMAR Mountain, Calif. -- A major new sky survey has begun at the Palomar 
Observatory. The Palomar-QUEST survey, a collaborative venture between the 
California Institute of Technology, Yale University, the Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, and Indiana University, will explore the universe from our solar 
system out to the most distant quasars, more than 10 billion light-years away.

The survey will be done using the newly refurbished 48-inch Oschin Telescope, 
originally used to produce major photographic sky atlases starting in 1950s. At 
its new technological heart is a very special, fully digital camera. The camera 
contains 112 digital imaging detectors, known as charge-coupled devices (CCDs). 
The largest astronomical camera until now has had 30 CCDs. CCDs are often used 
for digital imaging ranging from common snapshot cameras to sophisticated 
scientific instruments.

Designed and built by scientists at Yale and Indiana Universities, the QUEST 
(Quasar Equatorial Survey Team) camera was recently installed on the Oschin 
Telescope. "We are excited by the new data we are starting to obtain from the 
Palomar Observatory with the new QUEST camera," says Charles Baltay, Higgins 
Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University. Baltay's dream of 
building a large electronic camera that could capture the entire field of view 
of a wide-field telescope is now a reality.

The survey will generate astronomical data at an unprecedented rate, about one 
terabyte per month; a terabyte is a million megabytes, an amount of information 
approximately equivalent to that contained in two million books. In two years, 
the survey will generate an amount of information about equal to that in the 
entire Library of Congress.

A major new feature of the Palomar-QUEST survey will be many repeated 
observations of the same portions of the sky, enabling researchers to find not 
only objects that move (like asteroids or comets), but also objects that vary in 
brightness, such as the supernova explosions, variable stars, quasars, or cosmic 
gamma-ray bursts -- and to do this at an unprecedented scale.

"Previous sky surveys provided essentially digital snapshots of the sky", says 
S. George Djorgovski, professor of astronomy at Caltech. "Now we are starting to 
make digital movies of the universe." Djorgovski and his team, in collaboration 
with the Yale group, are also planning to use the survey to discover large 
numbers of very distant quasars -- highly luminous objects believed to be 
powered by massive black holes in the centers of young galaxies -- and to use 
them to probe the early stages of the universe.

Richard Ellis, Steele Professor of Astronomy and director of the Caltech Optical 
Observatories, will use QUEST in the search for exploding stars, known as 
supernovae. He and his team, in conjunction with the group from Yale, will use 
their observations of these exploding stars in an attempt to confirm or deny the 
recent finding that our universe is accelerating as it expands.

Shri Kulkarni, MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at 
Caltech, studies gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic stellar explosions in the 
cosmos. They are short lived and unpredictable. When a gamma-ray burst is 
detected its exact location in the sky is uncertain. The automated Oschin 
Telescope, armed with the QUEST camera's wide field of view, is poised and ready 
to pin down the exact location of these explosions, allowing astronomers to 
catch and study the fading glows of the gamma-ray bursts as they occur.

Closer to home, Caltech associate professor of planetary astronomy Mike Brown is 
looking for objects at the edge of our solar system, in the icy swarm known as 
the Kuiper Belt. Brown is convinced that there big objects out there, possibly 
as big as the planet Mars. He, in collaboration with astronomer David Rabinowitz 
of Yale, will use QUEST to look for them.

Steve Pravdo, project manager for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Near-Earth 
Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) Project, will use QUEST to continue the NEAT search 
which began in 2001. The QUEST camera will extend the search for asteroids that 
might one day approach or even collide with our planet.

The Palomar-QUEST survey will undoubtedly enable many other kinds of scientific 
investigations in the years to come. The intent is to make all of the copious 
amounts of data publicly available in due time on the Web, as a part of the 
nascent National Virtual Observatory. Roy Williams, member of the professional 
staff of Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research, is working on the 
National Virtual Observatory project, which will greatly increase the scientific 
impact of the data and ease its use for public and educational outreach as well.

The QUEST 

[meteorite-list] Re: Red lake Meteorite?

[Robert Verish]

Hello List,

Last month there was a question raised about the Red
Dry Lake AZ meteorites.  I didn't see any replies to
that post, but even if there were, I have some more
information that I can add.

The defining document for these meteorites is:

Meteoritical Bulletin No. 86 - page 13, Table 3.


It isn't just one meteorite, so we've gone to
numbering all the individual stones.  (Actually, this
is a NomComm naming convention that they've had in
place for dry lake meteorite finds going all the way
back to even before Beer Bottle Pass!;-)

You don't have to have your "stone" classified in
order to get a number.  That's right folks, we've gone
to a provisional numbering system (just like NWAs) for
all dry lake meteorite finds.  But to get your number
into the Met. Bulletin, you have to have it
classified.
(Again, just like the NWAs.)  

It's a familiar process.  Except that there is a
common interest to keep the numbering sequence as
close as possible to the chronologic order in which
the finds were made.  So, in regards to Red Dry Lake,
and because I have from there another 11 more stones
"in line" to go into the next edition of the MetBull,
we have a vested interest to get any earlier made
finds "in line" ahead of mine in order to keep the
chronological order to the numbering sequence.  

If you have a dry lake meteorite from "the Americas"
don't call Jutta for a number.  Contact Dr. Rhian
Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at the University of New
Mexico.
If you give her a find date, and after she checks to
see if there are any previously reported finds, she
will be able to get back to you with a provisional
number.  

But I wouldn't do it this week. Everyone is at the
MetSoc Meeting in Münster, Germany.  Coincidently,
they had a very important meeting today.  Topics of
discussion involved the Nomenclature Committee
policies and the Meteoritical Bulletin. Proposed
changes to these processes were discussed.  The
outcome of today's meeting will be of great interest
to certain people on this List.  Hopefully, that
"outcome" will be announced soon, so that I can
include it in my article for this month's
MeteoriteTimes.

But in the meanwhile, if you have any questions,
particularly about Red Dry Lake, feel free to contact
me. 

Regards,
Bob V.
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[meteorite-list] auctions ending soon

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[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images - July 29 - August 1, 2003

[Ron Baalke]

MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES
July 29 - August 1, 2003

o Remnants of Medusa Fossae Formation (Released 29 July 2003)
  http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20030729a.html

o Valley Networks (Released 30 July 2003)
  http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20030730a.html

o Lava Flows (Released 31 July 2003)
  http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20030731a.html

o Crenulated lava flows of Daedalia Planum (Released 1 August 2003)
  http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20030801a.html


All of the THEMIS images are archived here:

http://themis.la.asu.edu/latest.html

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission 
for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission 
Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University,
Tempe, in collaboration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. 
The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State 
University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor 
for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission 
operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a 
division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. 



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[meteorite-list] Re: Tagish Lake a CI2??

[Robert Verish]

Hello List,

Last month there was a question raised about Tagish
Lake.  I didn't see a reply to that post, but if there
has been a reply, and if this list of references is
redundant, I apologize.  

Of course, the most recent work on Tagish Lake is
being presented this week at the MetSoc Meeting in
Munster, Germany.  I just got my copy of MAPS and the
"Supplement", which has all the abstracts AND the
Meteoritical Bulletin, but I haven't had a chance to
read through all 250 pages.
-- Bob V.

-
Searched the web for Tagish Lake meteorite CI2.  
Results 1 - 10 of about 64 :

Tagish Lake Meteorite
... kg on the ice of Taku Arm, Tagish Lake, on January
... of Taku Arm and a small, unnamed lake 
1.5 km ... consuming; recovery was prioritized based
on meteorite mass and ... 
http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~pbrown/tagish/ 


PSRD: Tagish Lake Meteorite
... M. and others (2002) Light element geochemistry of
the Tagish Lake CI2 chondrite:
comparison ... ME, and Pieters, CM (2001) The Tagish
Lake meteorite: A possible ... 
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec02/TagishLake.html  

37-5toc
... CT Pillinger: Light element geochemistry of the
Tagish Lake CI2 chondrite: Comparison ... JR Grant:
Magnetic study of magnetite in the Tagish Lake
meteorite, 763. ... 
http://www.uark.edu/~meteor/37-5toc.htm 

PhysicsWeb - Rock blasts in from the past
... In other words, Tagish Lake uniquely contains both
the primitive ... first hybrid of these two meteorite
groups, and ... suggested it should be classified as a
CI2. ... 
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/13/12/4  

Tagish Lake(CI2)
Tagish Lake(CI2). British Columbia,Canada Size:4.5mm
Tagish Lake Meteorite
Type CI2 Carbonaceous Chondrite. Fall January 18,2000.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ug7s-ktu/e_tagish.htm 


[PDF]1593.pdf
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... These abundances are between the mean CM2 and the
mean CI1 compositions, consistent with Brown et al.'s
[1] classification of Tagish Lake as a CI2 meteorite.
... 
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2001/pdf/1593.pdf
 

[PDF]5171.pdf
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... Introduction: The Tagish Lake meteorite was
collected after a bright fireball was seen across ...
ob- servations suggest that it might be classified as
CI2 [1]. As ... 
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2000/pdf/5171.pdf

[ More results from www.lpi.usra.edu ] 

[meteorite-list] Tagish Lake, CH, and Bencubbin-like
meteorites
... is no formal procedure for meteorite
classification schemes ... said: > > "We tentatively
conclude that Tagish Lake is a ... are no examples of
CI2 chondrites, > and ... 
http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/
2001-January/021154.html 

[meteorite-list] Tagish Lake, CH, and Bencubbin-like
meteorites
... is no formal procedure for meteorite
classification schemes ... said: "We tentatively
conclude that Tagish Lake is a ... there are no
examples of CI2 chondrites, and ... 
http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2001-January/021153.html



[PDF]The Fall, Recovery, Orbit, and Composition of the
Tagish Lake ... 
... 3 July 2000; accepted 6 September 2000 The Fall,
Recovery, Orbit, and Composition of the Tagish Lake
Meteorite: A New Type of Carbonaceous Chondrite Peter
G. Brown... 
http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~pbrown/tagish/tagish_docs/
Science-reprint-pdf.pdf  


Other Meteorites
... The Tagish Lake meteorite is a very rare CI2
matrix dominated carbonaceous chondrite.
It is the only example of an observed fall of this
type of meteorite. ... 
http://www.ddfossils.com/inandwholsto.html 


abst37-5
... Owing to the heterogeneous nature of the
meteorite, the measured carbon ... the data are
consistent with classification of Tagish Lake as a CI2
chondrite. ... 
http://www.uark.edu/~meteor/abst37-5.htm 


The Tagish Lake meteorite (as of 2002):

D. W. MITTLEFEHLDT: Geochemistry of the ungrouped
carbonaceous chondrite Tagish Lake, the anomalous CM
chondrite Bells, and comparison with CI and CM
chondrites  703

M. M. GRADY, A. B. VERCHOVSKY, I. A. FRANCHI, I. P.
WRIGHT AND C. T. PILLINGER: Light element geochemistry
of the Tagish Lake CI2 chondrite: Comparison with CI1
and CM2 meteorites   .. 713


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