Re: [meteorite-list] Question to Marcin Cimala PolandMet

[bernd . pauli]

> Seen you not answer via private email, ...

Matteo, List,

Marcin, Stefan (Ralew) and Andrej (Razvan) are in Morocco
at the moment and I don't know when they will be back.

Best regards,

Bernd


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RE: [meteorite-list] Ad-Announcing a New German Iron Meteorite!

[mark ford]

C'mon guys, get it classified before you say it is definitely a
meteorite!



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Hello everyone! We are extremely pleased to announce a
New German Iron meteorite! This is only the 12th iron
meteorite to ever be found in Germany and it is a
spectacular, sculpted specimen. We are leaving it in
an 'as found' condition for now with the exception of
windowing a small area and etching it. Surprisingly,
it has a brilliant micro-etch pattern somewhat
reminescent to our New NWA 2428! We are accepting
offers and you can check out this unique German iron
on our website.

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Re: [meteorite-list] Question to Marcin Cimala PolandMet

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Hello

Thanks, but the money is arrive in the 22 February,
and Marcin have all time to send the slice to
methis is no good.

Matteo

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[meteorite-list] Tunguska wood sections for sale

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Hello

I have 17 sections with 1908 ring being lacking from
the italian exphedition of the 1991 take from the
Acuto Mount in Tunguska. This is rare material why its
available only for scientifics study, but I know a
person of the expheditions and i have trade some
material. For who its interested email me privatly and
I send a photo example of the pieces.

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[meteorite-list] Ebay auctions go to ended and new pieces

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Hello

I have put some new pieces on ebay, type a new nice
mesosiderite, slices of new 2 eucrites and other
material. For who its interested go here

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[meteorite-list] Raining cats and dogs

[Darren Garrison]

Oh, wait, it says SPINELS,not SPANIELS!




http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/uoc-mmf032105.php

Mystery minerals formed in fireball from colliding asteroid that destroyed the 
dinosaurs
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of 
Chicago have explained
how a globe-encircling residue formed in the aftermath of the asteroid impact 
that triggered the
extinction of the dinosaurs. The study, which will be published in the April 
issue of the journal
Geology, draws the most detailed picture yet of the complicated chemistry of 
the fireball produced
in the impact. 
The residue consists of sand-sized droplets of hot liquid that condensed from 
the vapor cloud
produced by an impacting asteroid 65 million years ago. Scientists have 
proposed three different
origins for these droplets, which scientists call "spherules." Some researchers 
have theorized that
atmospheric friction melted the droplets off the asteroid as it approached 
Earth's surface. Still
others suggested that the droplets splashed out of the Chicxulub impact crater 
off the coast of
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula following the asteroid's collision with Earth. 

But analyses conducted by Denton Ebel, Assistant Curator of Meteorites at the 
American Museum of
Natural History, and Lawrence Grossman, Professor in Geophysical Sciences at 
the University of
Chicago, provide new evidence for the third proposal. According to their 
research, the droplets must
have condensed from the cooling vapor cloud that girdled the Earth following 
the impact. 

Ebel and Grossman base their conclusions on a study of spinel, a mineral rich 
in magnesium, iron and
nickel contained within the droplets. 

"Their paper is an important advance in understanding how these impact 
spherules form," said Frank
Kyte, adjunct associate professor of geochemistry at the University of 
California, Los Angeles. "It
shows that the spinels can form within the impact plume, which some researchers 
argued was not
possible." 

When the asteroid struck approximately 65 million years ago, it rapidly 
released an enormous amount
of energy, creating a fireball that rose far into the stratosphere. "This giant 
impact not only
crushes the rock and melts the rock, but a lot of the rock vaporizes," Grossman 
said. "That vapor is
very hot and expands outward from the point of impact, cooling and expanding as 
it goes. As it cools
the vapor condenses as little droplets and rains out over the whole Earth." 

This rain of molten droplets then settled to the ground, where water and time 
altered the glassy
spherules into the clay layer that marks the boundary between the Cretaceous 
and Tertiary (now
officially called the Paleogene) periods. This boundary marks the extinction of 
the dinosaurs and
many other species. 

The work that led to Ebel and Grossman's Geology paper was triggered by a talk 
the latter attended
at a scientific meeting approximately 10 years ago. At this talk, a scientist 
stated that spinels
from the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer could not have condensed from the 
impact vapor cloud
because of their highly oxidized iron content. "I thought that was a strange 
argument," Grossman
said. "About half the atoms of just about any rock you can find are oxygen," he 
said, providing an
avenue for extensive oxidation. 

Grossman's laboratory, where Ebel worked at the time, specializes in analyzing 
meteorites that have
accumulated minerals condensed from the gas cloud that formed the sun 4.5 
billion years ago.
Together they decided to apply their experience in performing computer 
simulations of the
condensation of minerals from the gas cloud that formed the solar system to the 
problem of the
Cretaceous-Paleogene spinels. 

UCLA's Kyte, who himself favored a fireball origin for the spinels, has 
measured the chemical
composition of hundreds of spinel samples from around the world. 

Ebel and Grossman built on on Kyte's work and on previous calculations done by 
Jay Melosh at the
University of Arizona and Elisabetta Pierazzo of the Planetary Science 
Institute in Tucson, Ariz.,
showing how the asteroid's angle of impact would have affected the chemical 
composition of the
fireball. Vertical impacts contribute more of the asteroid and deeper rocks to 
the vapor, while
impacts at lower angles vaporize shallower rocks at the impact site. 

Ebel and Grossman also drew upon the work of the University of Chicago's Mark 
Ghiorso and the
University of Washington's Richard Sack, who have developed computer 
simulations that describe how
minerals change under high temperatures. 

The resulting computer simulations developed by Ebel and Grossman show how rock 
vaporized in the
impact would condense as the fireball cooled from temperatures that reached 
tens of thousands of
degrees. The simulations paint a picture of global skies filled with a bizarre 
rain of a
calcium-rich, silicate liquid, reflecting the chemical content of the rocks 
around the Chicxu

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - March 23, 2005

[SPACEROCKSINC]

http://www.spacerocksinc.com/March23.html  

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[meteorite-list] OT: The Moon and the Sun - Where are they going to be?

[Daniel H. Fronefield]

A couple of week ago, I missed a superb opportunity to photograph the full moon 
setting just behind Pikes Peak just as the sun was rising on the other horizon 
lighting up the peak !!!  Are there any computer programs that would help me 
determine moon phase / setting time and location (along with Sunrise time) so 
that I can attempt to be "prepared" the next time this configuration comes 
about?

Thanks
Dan

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RE: [meteorite-list] OT: The Moon and the Sun - Where are they going tobe?

[mark ford]

Dan,


The best by far.

http://www.starrynight.com/


There are also some reasonable freeware ones around, 

http://ardkeen.ie/starman/software.html

(Cartes du ciel is good)


Best,
Mark Ford

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going tobe?

A couple of week ago, I missed a superb opportunity to photograph the
full moon 
setting just behind Pikes Peak just as the sun was rising on the other
horizon 
lighting up the peak !!!  Are there any computer programs that would
help me 
determine moon phase / setting time and location (along with Sunrise
time) so 
that I can attempt to be "prepared" the next time this configuration
comes 
about?

Thanks
Dan

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[meteorite-list] polishing carbonaceous chondrites.

[Lars Pedersen]

Hello list
I have some carbonaceous chondrites, that need to be polished.
What grid should I use ?
I dont want mirror finish, as I dont find that atractive in carbonaceous 
stones.

Best wishes from Denmark with spring in the air :-)
Lars 

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RE: [meteorite-list] OT: The Moon and the Sun - Where are they going tobe?

[Manoj Pai]

Hi Dan,

Mark has give a few good links. The Cartes du Ciel is
excellent. Like the Starry Night, du Ciel also offer
online updates on recent comets etc. The latter is a
free ware.

You might like to check out this link

http://www.nightskyobserver.com/software.htm

The page has a complete list of various astronomy,
lunar, planetarium, CCD, satellite tracking etc.

You also might like to download the Photon Astro eZine
(pdf formats). Some of the issues contain articles on
meteorite hunters

http://www.nightskyobserver.com/Photon/

Clear skies

Manoj Pai
Ahmedabd
--- mark ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The best by far.
> 
> http://www.starrynight.com/
> 
> There are also some reasonable freeware ones around,
> 
> 
> http://ardkeen.ie/starman/software.html
> 
> (Cartes du ciel is good)
> 
> 
> Best,
> Mark Ford
> lighting up the peak !!!  Are there any computer
> programs that would help me  determine moon phase /
> setting time and location (along with Sunrise
> time) so 
> that I can attempt to be "prepared" the next time
> this configuration  comes  about?
> 
> Thanks
> Dan
> 




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Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data

[Lars Pedersen]

Silly me :-)
Naturaly the falls are W0.
I did just not think before I talked :-)
But is there any Shock data for Murchison and Allende ?
Best
Lars
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From: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 

Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


Lars,
I believe all falls which are immediately recovered are W0.  Murchison and 
Allende should be W0.

Zag is classified as W0/1.  Recovered years after the fall I believe.
Cheers,
Mike
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To: 
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


Hi
I have been surching the web for the weathering  and shock data, with no
luck, for these meteorites:
NWA 801S?  W??
Murchison   S1-2 W??
Allende   S1  W??
Anyone who can fill in the missing parts, and preferebly give a 
refference ?

Best
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Re: [meteorite-list] polishing carbonaceous chondrites.

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hello

I use only the 120 grid why after the matrix of the
carbonaceous chondrites mixture with the others cards

Matteo

--- Lars Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> I have some carbonaceous chondrites, that need to be
> polished.
> 
> What grid should I use ?
> 
> I dont want mirror finish, as I dont find that
> atractive in carbonaceous 
> stones.
> 
> Best wishes from Denmark with spring in the air :-)
> 
> Lars 
> 
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Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data

[Tom Knudson]

According to this site, Allende is a S1

http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/earth/metcat/detail.dsml?Key=A1330&index=

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From: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


> Silly me :-)
>
> Naturaly the falls are W0.
>
> I did just not think before I talked :-)
>
> But is there any Shock data for Murchison and Allende ?
>
> Best
> Lars
> - Original Message -
> From: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> 
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data
>
>
> > Lars,
> >
> > I believe all falls which are immediately recovered are W0.  Murchison
and
> > Allende should be W0.
> >
> > Zag is classified as W0/1.  Recovered years after the fall I believe.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 
> > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:06 PM
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data
> >
> >
> >> Hi
> >> I have been surching the web for the weathering  and shock data, with
no
> >> luck, for these meteorites:
> >>
> >> NWA 801S?  W??
> >> Murchison   S1-2 W??
> >> Allende   S1  W??
> >>
> >> Anyone who can fill in the missing parts, and preferebly give a
> >> refference ?
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Lars
> >>
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Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data

[Tom Knudson]

Sorry, same site has Murchison as a S 1-2

http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/earth/metcat/detail.dsml?Key=M3790&index=si
ng

Helpful site!

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From: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


> Silly me :-)
>
> Naturaly the falls are W0.
>
> I did just not think before I talked :-)
>
> But is there any Shock data for Murchison and Allende ?
>
> Best
> Lars
> - Original Message -
> From: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> 
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data
>
>
> > Lars,
> >
> > I believe all falls which are immediately recovered are W0.  Murchison
and
> > Allende should be W0.
> >
> > Zag is classified as W0/1.  Recovered years after the fall I believe.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 
> > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:06 PM
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data
> >
> >
> >> Hi
> >> I have been surching the web for the weathering  and shock data, with
no
> >> luck, for these meteorites:
> >>
> >> NWA 801S?  W??
> >> Murchison   S1-2 W??
> >> Allende   S1  W??
> >>
> >> Anyone who can fill in the missing parts, and preferebly give a
> >> refference ?
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Lars
> >>
> >>
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Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data

[Matt Morgan]

Aren't the C-Chondrites only aqueously altered and not shocked by 
impact? I read this a while back, but I am not clear on the subject.
Matt

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Tom Knudson wrote:
According to this site, Allende is a S1
http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/earth/metcat/detail.dsml?Key=A1330&index=
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To: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data
 

Silly me :-)
Naturaly the falls are W0.
I did just not think before I talked :-)
But is there any Shock data for Murchison and Allende ?
Best
Lars
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To: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:35 PM
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Lars,
I believe all falls which are immediately recovered are W0.  Murchison
 

and
 

Allende should be W0.
Zag is classified as W0/1.  Recovered years after the fall I believe.
Cheers,
Mike
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To: 
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data
 

Hi
I have been surching the web for the weathering  and shock data, with
   

no
 

luck, for these meteorites:
NWA 801S?  W??
Murchison   S1-2 W??
Allende   S1  W??
Anyone who can fill in the missing parts, and preferebly give a
refference ?
Best
Lars
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[meteorite-list] Superior Valley meteorites

[Robert Verish]

http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0403/24.htm

Pierre,

Above is the information I found on the web related to
the Superior Valley 020 chondrite that Rob Matson
found.

Superior Valley 012 thru 019 are still "provisional".
Contact me off-List if you still need info or images
for these.
Bob V.

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Pelé Pierre-Marie pierremariepele at yahoo.fr 
Wed Mar 23 02:40:57 EST 2005 

Hello to the List,

I'm searching for detailed information about Superior
Valley #12 to #20.

Does anyone have these information 
(maybe Robert Verish ?)

Thanks,
Pierre-Marie PELE
www.meteor-center.com






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[meteorite-list] Chicxulub Spherules Reveal Details of Catastrophic K-T Fireball

[Paul H]

"Mystery minerals formed in fireball from colliding 
asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs"
Innovation Report,  March 23, 2005

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/studien/bericht-42101.html

"Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History 
and the University of Chicago have explained how a 
globe-encircling residue formed in the aftermath of 
the asteroid impact that triggered the extinction of 
the dinosaurs. The study, which will be published in 
the April issue of the journal Geology, draws the 
most detailed picture yet of the complicated 
chemistry of the fireball produced in the impact."



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[meteorite-list] WOW, what a meteorite!

[Tom Knudson]

All it says about this artic meteorite is
"This one LOOKS like a pallasite with chondrules surrounded by metallic
iron."
I want it

http://www.rosssea.info/pix/big/octahedrite-Fe_chondrules.jpg

Thanks, Tom
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[Greg Hupe]

Dear list members,
I have many eBay auctions ending in just a few hours under my eBay seller 
name, naturesvault. There are many still under one dollar. Here are a few of 
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To see these and all of my eBay offerings, please click on one of the above 
links and then click on "View seller's other items". That, or go to eBay and 
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Re: [meteorite-list] OT: The Moon and the Sun - Where are they going tobe?

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, Dan,

All these programs are excellent, and will be very usefully in figuring out 
the
optimum moment for a photo, but basically the configuration occurs EVERY full 
moon.

The full moon always sets at sunrise.  The new moon always sets at sunset
(which is why we can never see the moment of the new moon).  The waxing half 
moon
is always at the zenith at local noon.  The waning half moon is always at the
zenith at local midnight.
The situation you describe (full moon just setting behind the peak while the
sun is just over the eastern horizon) is not a perfect opposition (180 degrees) 
but
your POV is below the peak (presumably) and the moon is above the geometric
horizon.  So is the sun if there are mountains to the east (there are, aren't
they?).  So this is likely to have been a day or too after the perfect full 
moon.
The moon looks full for a couple days either side...
You need to go to the spot and measure the elevation above a level 
horizontal
line of the eastern horizon and the western "horizon" at the edge of the peak, 
and
use those programs to search for when THOSE positions are occupied by the moon 
and
sun.
Of course, there are all these "little" factors that effect the exact
appearance.  Declination will determine the angle at which the moon approaches 
the
horizon and so forth.  Even if the next full moon and the next don't line up 
like
the last one, there should lots of opportunities for this shot and lots of other
nice shots (once a month).

Sterling Webb
-
"Daniel H. Fronefield" wrote:

> A couple of week ago, I missed a superb opportunity to photograph the full 
> moon
> setting just behind Pikes Peak just as the sun was rising on the other horizon
> lighting up the peak !!!  Are there any computer programs that would help me
> determine moon phase / setting time and location (along with Sunrise time) so
> that I can attempt to be "prepared" the next time this configuration comes
> about?
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
> Handmade Knives by D. Fronefield
> "Specializing in Meteorites and other exotic materials"
> http://hiwaay.net/~dfronfld


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[meteorite-list] C-Chondrites and Shock

[bernd . pauli]

Matt inquired:

> Aren't the C-Chondrites only aqueously altered and not shocked by 
> impact? I read this a while back, but I am not clear on the subject.

Well, my C-chondrites were severely shocked
when they learnt who they belonged to  :-))

Hello Matt and List,

Carbonaceous chondrites have been subject to impact shock just like
many other meteorites and they comprise almost the whole shock stage
gamut from S1 (Acfer 082, CV3 for example) to S4 (HaH 281). There are,
however, no carbonaceous chondrites in my databases that are S5 or S6.

Here are some examples:

S1 - Acfer 202, CO3
S2 - Gujba, CB3a
S3 - Bali, CV3.0
S4 - Sahara 98044, CV

Why there are no severely shocked carbonaceous chondrites, I do not
know. Maybe they wouldn't have survived S5 or S6 or maybe we just
haven't found any yet. Any opinions?

Best regards,

Bernd

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Re: [meteorite-list] C-Chondrites and Shock

[Matt Morgan]

Or maybe Ureilites are severly shocked C-Chondrites.
Thanks for the reply.
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Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
P.O. Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215 USA
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
ebay id: mhmeteorites

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt inquired:
 

Aren't the C-Chondrites only aqueously altered and not shocked by 
impact? I read this a while back, but I am not clear on the subject.
   

Well, my C-chondrites were severely shocked
when they learnt who they belonged to  :-))
Hello Matt and List,
Carbonaceous chondrites have been subject to impact shock just like
many other meteorites and they comprise almost the whole shock stage
gamut from S1 (Acfer 082, CV3 for example) to S4 (HaH 281). There are,
however, no carbonaceous chondrites in my databases that are S5 or S6.
Here are some examples:
S1 - Acfer 202, CO3
S2 - Gujba, CB3a
S3 - Bali, CV3.0
S4 - Sahara 98044, CV
Why there are no severely shocked carbonaceous chondrites, I do not
know. Maybe they wouldn't have survived S5 or S6 or maybe we just
haven't found any yet. Any opinions?
Best regards,
Bernd
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Re: [meteorite-list] C-Chondrites and Shock

[Lars Pedersen]

Maybe they wouldn't have survived S5 or S6 or maybe
we just haven't found any yet. Any opinions?

can it be that cc parent bodies are more fragile than oc parent bodies ?
I mean that they break apart earlier...  ???
Best
Lars
- Original Message - 
From: "Matt Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] C-Chondrites and Shock


Or maybe Ureilites are severly shocked C-Chondrites.
Thanks for the reply.
===
Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
P.O. Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215 USA
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
ebay id: mhmeteorites

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt inquired:
 

Aren't the C-Chondrites only aqueously altered and not shocked by 
impact? I read this a while back, but I am not clear on the subject.
   

Well, my C-chondrites were severely shocked
when they learnt who they belonged to  :-))
Hello Matt and List,
Carbonaceous chondrites have been subject to impact shock just like
many other meteorites and they comprise almost the whole shock stage
gamut from S1 (Acfer 082, CV3 for example) to S4 (HaH 281). There are,
however, no carbonaceous chondrites in my databases that are S5 or S6.
Here are some examples:
S1 - Acfer 202, CO3
S2 - Gujba, CB3a
S3 - Bali, CV3.0
S4 - Sahara 98044, CV
Why there are no severely shocked carbonaceous chondrites, I do not
know. Maybe they wouldn't have survived S5 or S6 or maybe we just
haven't found any yet. Any opinions?
Best regards,
Bernd
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[meteorite-list] Ad, LARGE one cent sale tonight 800 gram achondrite

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Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data

[tett]

Lars,
I noticed today that there is more kainsaz material being recovered and it 
fell in 1931.  I wonder if the current stones are W0?

Cheers,
Mike
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From: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


Silly me :-)
Naturaly the falls are W0.
I did just not think before I talked :-)
But is there any Shock data for Murchison and Allende ?
Best
Lars
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From: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 

Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


Lars,
I believe all falls which are immediately recovered are W0.  Murchison 
and Allende should be W0.

Zag is classified as W0/1.  Recovered years after the fall I believe.
Cheers,
Mike
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From: "Lars Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


Hi
I have been surching the web for the weathering  and shock data, with no
luck, for these meteorites:
NWA 801S?  W??
Murchison   S1-2 W??
Allende   S1  W??
Anyone who can fill in the missing parts, and preferebly give a 
refference ?

Best
Lars
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[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images - March 17-23, 2005

[Ron Baalke]

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
March 17-23, 2005

The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

o South Polar Cap (Released 17 March 2005)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/17/

o Frost on Dunes (Released 18 March 2005)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/18/

o 5K Crater (Released 19 March 2005)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/19/

o Layers of Candor (Released 20 March 2005)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/20/

o Dunes of the Frozen North (Released 21 March 2005)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/21/

o Mars at Ls 176 Degrees (Released 22 March 2005)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/22/

o Tharsis Channels (Released 23 March 2005)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/23/



All of the Mars Global Surveyor images are archived here:

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/index.html

Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996 and has been
in Mars orbit since September 1997.   It began its primary
mapping mission on March 8, 1999.  Mars Global Surveyor is the 
first mission in a long-term program of Mars exploration known as 
the Mars Surveyor Program that is managed by JPL for NASA's Office
of Space Science, Washington, DC.  Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)
and the California Institute of Technology built the MOC
using spare hardware from the Mars Observer mission. MSSS operates
the camera from its facilities in San Diego, CA. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project operates the Mars Global
Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial partner, Lockheed Martin
Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, CA and Denver, CO.

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[meteorite-list] Mystery Minerals Formed in Fireball from Colliding Asteroid That Destroyed the Dinosaurs

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/uoc-mmf032105.php

Public release date: 23-Mar-2005

Contact: Steve Koppes
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773-702-8366
University of Chicago 

Robin Lloyd
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212-496-3419
American Museum of Natural History 

Ann Cairns
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Mystery minerals formed in fireball from colliding asteroid that
destroyed the dinosaurs

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University
of Chicago have explained how a globe-encircling residue formed in the
aftermath of the asteroid impact that triggered the extinction of the
dinosaurs. The study, which will be published in the April issue of the
journal Geology, draws the most detailed picture yet of the complicated
chemistry of the fireball produced in the impact.

The residue consists of sand-sized droplets of hot liquid that condensed
from the vapor cloud produced by an impacting asteroid 65 million years
ago. Scientists have proposed three different origins for these
droplets, which scientists call "spherules." Some researchers have
theorized that atmospheric friction melted the droplets off the asteroid
as it approached Earth's surface. Still others suggested that the
droplets splashed out of the Chicxulub impact crater off the coast of
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula following the asteroid's collision with Earth.

But analyses conducted by Denton Ebel, Assistant Curator of Meteorites
at the American Museum of Natural History, and Lawrence Grossman,
Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, provide
new evidence for the third proposal. According to their research, the
droplets must have condensed from the cooling vapor cloud that girdled
the Earth following the impact.

Ebel and Grossman base their conclusions on a study of spinel, a mineral
rich in magnesium, iron and nickel contained within the droplets.

"Their paper is an important advance in understanding how these impact
spherules form," said Frank Kyte, adjunct associate professor of
geochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It shows
that the spinels can form within the impact plume, which some
researchers argued was not possible."

When the asteroid struck approximately 65 million years ago, it rapidly
released an enormous amount of energy, creating a fireball that rose far
into the stratosphere. "This giant impact not only crushes the rock and
melts the rock, but a lot of the rock vaporizes," Grossman said. "That
vapor is very hot and expands outward from the point of impact, cooling
and expanding as it goes. As it cools the vapor condenses as little
droplets and rains out over the whole Earth."

This rain of molten droplets then settled to the ground, where water and
time altered the glassy spherules into the clay layer that marks the
boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary (now officially called the
Paleogene) periods. This boundary marks the extinction of the dinosaurs
and many other species.

The work that led to Ebel and Grossman's Geology paper was triggered by
a talk the latter attended at a scientific meeting approximately 10
years ago. At this talk, a scientist stated that spinels from the
Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer could not have condensed from the
impact vapor cloud because of their highly oxidized iron content. "I
thought that was a strange argument," Grossman said. "About half the
atoms of just about any rock you can find are oxygen," he said,
providing an avenue for extensive oxidation.

Grossman's laboratory, where Ebel worked at the time, specializes in
analyzing meteorites that have accumulated minerals condensed from the
gas cloud that formed the sun 4.5 billion years ago. Together they
decided to apply their experience in performing computer simulations of
the condensation of minerals from the gas cloud that formed the solar
system to the problem of the Cretaceous-Paleogene spinels.

UCLA's Kyte, who himself favored a fireball origin for the spinels, has
measured the chemical composition of hundreds of spinel samples from
around the world.

Ebel and Grossman built on on Kyte's work and on previous calculations
done by Jay Melosh at the University of Arizona and Elisabetta Pierazzo
of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., showing how the
asteroid's angle of impact would have affected the chemical composition
of the fireball. Vertical impacts contribute more of the asteroid and
deeper rocks to the vapor, while impacts at lower angles vaporize
shallower rocks at the impact site.

Ebel and Grossman also drew upon the work of the University of Chicago's
Mark Ghiorso and the University of Washington's Richard Sack, who have
developed computer simulations that describe how minerals change under
high temperatures.

The resulting computer simulations developed by Ebel an

[meteorite-list] Tswaing Meteorite Crater

[Ron Baalke]

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1060408.cms

Game for this? 
The Economic Times (India)
March 24, 2005

[snip]

Tswaing Meteorite Crater, some 40 kilometres north of Pretoria, is one
of the best preserved meteorite craters in the world.

The Tswaing Crater (Tswaing meaning "Place of Salt" in the Tswana
language) gets 12 000 visitors a year to marvel at this wonder that hit
the earth 220 000 years ago with an impact of about 100 atomic bombs of
the type dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

It created a crater of just over one kilometre in diameter and sent up
60 metres of earth to form the present-day crater rim. The crater is one
of around 170 impact craters in the world and one of four known impact
craters in South Africa. It has one of only four meteorite crater
museums in the world. The others are in the US, Germany and France.

The site is covered in dense bushveld, and walking along the trail 
on the rim, one looks down into this marvellous phenomenon, with its 
small 100-metre diameter lake in the centre of the crater. The lake, 
which is filled by a spring in its bowl and rainwater, once 
contained high concentrations of salt & soda ash. 

[snip]
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[meteorite-list] Silverton Said to be Ground Zero of 1981 Fireball

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.eastvalleynews.com/appeal/article.cfm?i=5247

Silverton said to be ground zero of '81 fireball
BY JEFF BREKAS
Silverton Appeal (Oregon)
March 23, 2005

When people from northern California to Seattle spotted a fireball
streaking through the night sky on March 12, the possible meteor
sighting was reminiscent of Thursday, Dec. 3, 1981, when the Silverton
area was believed to be ground zero for such an event.

Dick Pugh, one of 600 members worldwide of the Metrological Society back
in 1981, told Appeal-Tribune editor Bob Smith the 10:20 p.m. meteorite
was somewhere on the ground between Silverton, Stayton and Salem.

He had reports of the fireball being seen in Portland, Hood River and
The Dalles, and a sonic boom was heard in Estacada, Molalla and
Silverton. He said the noise was loudest in Silverton.

Through the newspaper Pugh was urging Silverton area residents to check
their yards and fields for any new holes, look at their roofs for fresh
punctures, and to even peruse the gutters of their houses.

Pugh said when people saw the fireball the meteor was probably 10 to 20
miles in altitude. At any lower level the atmosphere would have slowed
the object enough that light would not have been produced, he explained.

Pugh was not concerned with conflicting eyewitness reports of the
fireball either traveling north to south, west to east, east to west or
south to north.

"The thing was coming down at a very steep angle and, depending where
you were when you saw it, the direction could vary," he told Smith. He
stated the varying reports were from Silverton residents indicating the
city was 'at the head" of the fireball and directly in the path.

Larry Hallford and the late George Holland, both Silverton police
officers, were among the witnesses.

Hallford was driving on Silverton Road east of Little Pudding River
bridge from his home in Salem. He heard no sound but he described to
Pugh a fireball brighter than a full moon, with a few fragments falling
off.

Holland was driving on Old Mount Angel Highway at Abiqua River bridge
near his residence. He also stated he heard no sound, and told Pugh the
object was heading south to north.

Silverton resident Leigh Springer, a driver on Silverton Road at Lardon
Road, told Pugh the fireball was not moving fast, but lit up the
countryside.

Mark H. Forster of Hazelnut Ridge Road said he had to lean forward to
watch the silent event as he was driving west on Highway 213, 1 mile
north of Silverton. He also described the object as the size of a full
moon, but brighter. Forster said the meteor was moving at high speed, at
a shallow angle.

Pugh told Smith the fact that three people, all west and north of
Silverton, did not hear anything, was significant in tracing the meteor.

"Those directly in its path probably wouldn't hear anything because of
the 'cone of silence' directly under something traveling at or above the
speed of sound. Only those on either side hear anything," he said.

Pugh calculated the chances of finding the meteorite, ranging in size
from a BB to a basketball, were only one in 10,000. If found, the
meteorite would be black, or black with a rusty brown coating, he
explained. He said he had not had success in communicating with the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but stated the chances of
the fireball being a piece of satellite were remote.

The plow had found more meteorites than any other scientific instrument,
and more farmers and ranchers had found them than all scientists put
together, said Pugh. He said 85 to 90 percent of meteorites that had
reached earth were stone, some capable of being crumbled by hand. He
said the rest were iron.

The meteor viewed above Silverton was the first viewed as a fireball in
Oregon in recorded history, and if found, would be the fifth discovered
in Oregon dating back to 1856, he said.

"This is the first time something like this has happened here since July
1939 when the Washougal meteorite exploded over Portland," Pugh told
Smith. He said the tennis ball-size rock was discovered at the bottom of
a small crater in a raspberry patch where a tree limb had been severed.

"That was in July when the ground was hard," Pugh said. "This time the
ground was wet and it could be buried four feet or more. It could be on
the surface too"

Reports on the first meteorite discovered in 1856 are sketchy. Found
near Port Orford, the meteorite reportedly weighed 10 to 20 tons. The
finder chipped off a piece weighing about 1 ounce, but nobody ever
relocated the main mass.

During 1898 the largest piece of the Sam's Valley Meteorite weighing 16
pounds was found north of Medford. Reportedly, the meteor broke up into
three pieces.

The famed 15-ton Willamette Meteorite, the largest meteorite found in
the United States, was found and claimed in 1902 by Ellis Hughes on the
property of Oregon Iron and Steel Co. outside Oregon City. Native
Americans had used the meteorite in ceremonies. The Hughes family
charged 25 ce

[meteorite-list] Large Meteorite Impacts III book

[drtanuki]

Dear List,
   There is a newly published book: Large Meteorite
Impacts III edited by Thomas Kenkmann, Friedrich Horz,
and Alex Deutsch.
   "The third volume of the series provides an updated
and comprehensve overview of modern impact crater
research in 26 chapters, more than 90 authors from
Europe, the United States, Russia, Canada, and South
Africa"
  SPE 384, 457 p. plus index
  ISBN 0-8137-2384-1
  $95.00, member price $76.00
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Re: [meteorite-list] Large Meteorite Impacts III book

[Gerald Flaherty]

It Sells for $84.75 at Blackwell's online
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Large Meteorite Impacts III book


Dear List,
  There is a newly published book: Large Meteorite
Impacts III edited by Thomas Kenkmann, Friedrich Horz,
and Alex Deutsch.
  "The third volume of the series provides an updated
and comprehensve overview of modern impact crater
research in 26 chapters, more than 90 authors from
Europe, the United States, Russia, Canada, and South
Africa"
 SPE 384, 457 p. plus index
 ISBN 0-8137-2384-1
 $95.00, member price $76.00
 GSA Sales and Services
 P.O. Box 9140
 Boulder, CO. 80301-9140, USA
 +1.303.357.1000, opt. 3
 toll free +1.888.443.4472
 www.geosociety.org
Sincerely, Dirk Ross...Tokyo

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Re: [meteorite-list] Large Meteorite Impacts III book

[drtanuki]

Dear Gerald and List,
  The shipping from GSA to overseas is $5.00; and from
my checking Blackwells shipping cost was more, even
for those living in the USA.  
Sincerely, Dirk Ross..Tokyo

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Re: [meteorite-list] Large Meteorite Impacts III book

[Gerald Flaherty]

Dirk and list
The shipping was free at Blackwell's in USA!
Jerry
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Dear Gerald and List,
 The shipping from GSA to overseas is $5.00; and from
my checking Blackwells shipping cost was more, even
for those living in the USA.
Sincerely, Dirk Ross..Tokyo
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Re: [meteorite-list] Silverton Said to be Ground Zero of 1981 Fireball

[Marc Fries]

Wow - this "Metrological Society" sounds like a very exclusive club!  Can
I join?  ;)

> Dick Pugh, one of 600 members worldwide of the Metrological Society back
> in 1981, told Appeal-Tribune editor Bob Smith the 10:20 p.m. meteorite
> was somewhere on the ground between Silverton, Stayton and Salem.
>

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[meteorite-list] Priority mail problems?

[Tom Knudson]

Hello List, Ted bunch tried to send my newly classified meteorite back to me
and got it back, "unable to deliver" but the address was correct, I don't
understand, anyone ever had this happen before?
Thanks, Tom
peregrineflier <><
IMCA 6168
http://www.frontiernet.net/~peregrineflier/Peregrineflier.htm
http://fstop.proboards24.com/

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Re: [meteorite-list] Priority mail problems?

[Bill Southern]

Hello Tom,
I have only had it happen with insured mail items (priority) There was no 
one to sign so they left a pick up notice (the person never got) and after 
10 days or so I got it back with a note saying "unable to deliver". At least 
it was not lost :)

This has happened twice out of hundreds of time I have used Priority Mail.
Bill Southern
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:49 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Priority mail problems?


Hello List, Ted bunch tried to send my newly classified meteorite back to 
me
and got it back, "unable to deliver" but the address was correct, I don't
understand, anyone ever had this happen before?
Thanks, Tom
peregrineflier <><
IMCA 6168
http://www.frontiernet.net/~peregrineflier/Peregrineflier.htm
http://fstop.proboards24.com/

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[meteorite-list] 805 gram ACHONDRITE at $!.70 gram!

[Michael Farmer]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6520282328
My god people, most CHONDRITES are more than this. 
Ends in 8 minutes.

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[meteorite-list] What's this wrong?

[Jeff Kuyken]

G'day List,

I had this photo sent to me which is obviously a meteor-wrong but does
anyone know what type of mineral/rock this is?

http://www.meteorites.com.au/images/pic1.jpg

Thanks,

Jeff

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Re: [meteorite-list] What's this wrong?

[Jason Utas]

Hello All,
That looks like a cluster of pyrite crystals to me.
I'm pretty sure -- looks rather similar to some of the ones that
weather out of the White Cliffs of Dover.
Regards,
Jason
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[meteorite-list] Kainsaz

[Lars Pedersen]

Hi Tett and list
I just got a 12 gram slice of Kainsaz from "Meteorock".
The crust look very fresh.
It looks like a W0...???
Is that possible if it was a newly found stone from a fall in 1931 ?
I was just wondering (better keep to myslef what I think)
I see kilo after kilo of Russian material beeing sold on ebay.all new 
findsor so it is said.

All sendt from Finland.
I thought that it was iligal to export meteoritic material from Russia??
Best
Lars
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


Lars,
I noticed today that there is more kainsaz material being recovered and it 
fell in 1931.  I wonder if the current stones are W0?

Cheers,
Mike
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:34 AM
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Silly me :-)
Naturaly the falls are W0.
I did just not think before I talked :-)
But is there any Shock data for Murchison and Allende ?
Best
Lars
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Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


Lars,
I believe all falls which are immediately recovered are W0.  Murchison 
and Allende should be W0.

Zag is classified as W0/1.  Recovered years after the fall I believe.
Cheers,
Mike
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Subject: [meteorite-list] weathering and shock data


Hi
I have been surching the web for the weathering  and shock data, with 
no
luck, for these meteorites:

NWA 801S?  W??
Murchison   S1-2 W??
Allende   S1  W??
Anyone who can fill in the missing parts, and preferebly give a 
refference ?

Best
Lars
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