[meteorite-list] AD: Small Bensour Individual & Fragment
Good Evening Folks... Here's a couple of very fresh pieces.. picked up within 24hrs after it entered earth's atmosphere. Take your pick...photos upon request. Price includes USPS Priority Mail postage. Paypal accepted. Bensour 22.0g Individual $100 (fresh break revealing pristine, vanilla-colored interior.) Bensour 5.84g Fragment $25 (one side almost completely fusion-crusted) Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! Ryan __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] Strange type of meteorite; no comment
I've seen these on ebay for some time now, and managed to snag a sample of the perfume (okay, I was curious, and thought it could be appropriate for a meteorite collector). It is a very sweet floral with iris and violet notes, and rather faint; I'm pretty sensitive to fragrance, and could barely detect it after half an hour of wearing. Tracy Latimer From: Ingo Herkstroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Strange type of meteorite; no comment Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 22:15:07 +0200 Hi Folks! Very strange. http://cgi.ebay.de/Meteorites-by-Guerlain-edt-30ml-Neu-in-Box_W0QQitemZ7239909877QQcategoryZ31083QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Cheers! (Or better not!) :) Ingo -- Bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten sparen: GMX SmartSurfer! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Wanted European Meteorites
Hello, Im looking for micro specimens around 1 or 2 grams of ANY European meteorites. Stonys, Irons, or Pallasites. If you have some, please email me a list w/ prices Thanks Bob __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update - May 26, 2006
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Continues Studies of Martian "Winter Haven" - sol 847-854, May 26, 2006: Spirit continued to collect images for the 360-degree panorama, now under construction, of the rover's "Winter Haven" on Mars. Rover planners anticipated that by the end of the Memorial Day weekend, Spirit would complete 15 of the 27 columns for the final product. Spirit also continued scientific studies of the soil target called "Progress" after brushing away about 6 millimeters (a quarter of an inch) of soil to reveal a second layer, dubbed "Progress 2." Rover team members prepared commands for the next round of scientific measurements, to include a 49.5-hour study divided over three Martian days, or sols, using the Moessbauer spectrometer. Five of seven opportunities to transmit signals to Mars at higher-frequency X-band wavelengths were needed for higher-priority communications in support of aerobraking activities of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, so engineers continued sending commands to Spirit via the UHF link on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Sol-by-sol summaries: Sol 847 (May 21, 2006): Spirit acquired a one-by-three mosaic for column 14 of the "McMurdo Panorama" and studied Progress 2 with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer. Sols 849 to 851: In the absence of an uplink for new commands, Spirit executed the master sequence from sol 848. Spirit continued downlinking data to Earth and charged the battery. Sol 852: Plans called for Spirit to place the Moessbauer spectrometer on Progress 2 and start overnight collection and integration of data. Sol 853: Plans called for Spirit to re-start analysis with the Moessbauer spectrometer for 3.5 hours, acquire all three frames of column 15 of the McMurdo panorama, and make targeted observations with the miniature thermal emission spectrometer. Sol 854 (May 29, 2006): Plans called for an overnight study of Progress 2 with the Moessbauer spectrometer. Odometry: As of sol 850 (May 25, 2006), Spirit's total odometry remained at 6,876.18 meters (4.27 miles). __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Keeping Your Eyes Peeled for Cosmic Debris (Stardust)
http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/05/keeping-your-eyes-peeled-for-cosmic.html Keeping your eyes peeled for cosmic debris Blogger News Network May 28, 2006 Stardust is a NASA space capsule that collected samples from comet Wild 2 in deep space and landed back on Earth on January 15, 2006. It was decided that distributed computing would be used to "discover" the samples the capsule collected. The project is called [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Westphal is the director of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Wikinews interviewed him for May's Interview of the Month (IOTM) on May 18, 2006. Wikinews: Some may not know exactly what Stardust and or [EMAIL PROTECTED] are. Can you explain more about it for us? Andrew Westphal: Stardust is a NASA Discovery mission that was launch in 1999. It is really two missions in one. The primary science goal of the mission was to collect a sample from a known primitive solar-system body, a comet called Wild2 (pronounced "Vilt-two" -- the discoverer was German, I believe). This is the first US "sample return" mission since Apollo, and the first ever from beyond the moon. This gives a little context. By "sample return" of course I mean a mission that brings back extraterrestrial material. I should have said above that this is the first "solid" sample return mission -- Genesis brought back a sample from the Sun almost two years ago, but Stardust is also bringing back the first solid samples from the local interstellar medium -- basically this is a sample of the Galaxy. This is absolutely unprecedented, and we're obviously incredibly excited. I should mention parenthetically that there is a fantastic launch video -- taken from the POV of the rocket on the JPL Stardust website -- highly recommended -- best I've ever seen -- all the way from the launch pad to. Basically interplanetary trajectory. Absolutely great. WN: Is the video available to the public? Andrew Westphal: Yes. OK, I digress. The first challenge that we have before can do any kind of analysis of these interstellar dust particles is simply to find them. This is a big challenge because they are very small (order of micron in size) and are somewhere (we don't know where) on a HUGE collector-- at least on the scale of the particle size -- about a tenth of a square meter. SO... We're right now using an automated microscope that we developed several years ago for nuclear astrophysics work to scan the collector in the Cosmic Dust Lab in Building 31 at Johnson Space Center. This is the ARES group that handles returned samples (Moon Rocks, Genesis chips, Meteorites, and Interplanetary Dust Particles collected by U2 in the stratosphere). The microscope collects stacks of digital images of the aerogel collectors in the array. These images are sent to us -- we compress them and convert them into a format appropriate for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a highly distributed project using a "Virtual Microscope" that is written in html and javascript and runs on most browsers -- no downloads are required. Using the Virtual Microscope volunteers can search over the collector for the tracks of the interstellar dust particles. WN: How many samples do you anticipate to be found during the course of the project? A.W.: Great question. The short answer is that we don't know. The long answer is a bit more complicated. Here's what we know. The Galileo and Ulysses spacecraft carried dust detectors onboard that Eberhard Gruen and his colleagues used to first detect and them measure the flux of interstellar dust particles streaming into the solar system. (This is a kind of "wind" of interstellar dust, caused by the fact that our solar system is moving with respect to the local interstellar medium.) Markus Landgraf has estimated the number of interstellar dust particles that should have been captured by Stardust during two periods of the "cruise" phase of the interplanetary orbit in which the spacecraft was moving with this wind. He estimated that there should be around 45 particles, but this number is very uncertain -- I wouldn't be surprised if it is quite different from that. That was the long answer! One thing that I should say...is that like all research, the outcome of what we are doing is highly uncertain. There is a wonderful quote attributed to Einstein -- "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called "research", would it?" WN: How big would the samples be? A.W.: We expect that the particles will be of order a micron in size. (A millionth of a meter.) When people are searching using the virtual microscope, they will be looking not for the particles, but for the tracks that the particles make, which are much larger -- several microns in diameter. Just yesterday we switched over to a new site which has a demo of the VM (virtual microscope) I invite you to check it out. The tracks in the demo are from submicron carbonyl iron particles that were shot into aerogel using a particle accelerator modified to accelerate dust particles to
[meteorite-list] Interstellar Organic Matter in Meteorites
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/May06/meteoriteOrganics.html Interstellar Organic Matter in Meteorites Planetary Science Research Discoveries May 26, 2006 --- Carbonaceous chondrites contain organic compounds with high deuterium/hydrogen ratios, suggesting they formed in interstellar space. Written by G. Jeffrey Taylor Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology Organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrites contain microscopic regions with surprising enrichments in the ratios of deuterium (D) to hydrogen (H) and nitrogen-15 (15N) to nitrogen-14 (14N). Henner Busemann and his colleagues Andrea Young, Conel Alexander, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, and Larry Nittler at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Peter Hoppe (Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Germany) demonstrate that organic matter resistant to dissolution by strong acids carry significant isotopic anomalies. They suggest that these anomalies most likely formed in interstellar space before the solar system formed and survived the long journey from molecular cloud to protostellar disk to asteroids. Reference: * Busemann, H., A. F. Young, C. M. O'D. Alexander, P. Hoppe, S. Mukhopadhyay, and L. R. Nittler (2006) Interstellar chemistry recorded in organic matter from primitive meteorites. Science, v. 312, p. 727-730. Gunky Meteorites Some carbonaceous chondrites smell. They contain volatile compounds that slowly give off chemicals with a distinctive organic aroma. Most types of carbonaceous chondrites (and there are lots of types) contain only about 2% organic compounds, but these are very important for understanding how organic compounds might have formed in the solar system. They even contain complex compounds such as amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The presence of amino acids certainly sounds like they could contain life. Maybe carbonaceous chondrites are crawling with micro-organisms. I was amazed when I first learned decades ago while still in graduate school that some meteorites contain amino acids. I admit I was a bit disappointed when I read that the amino acids have equal amounts of left- and right-handed molecules (a description of their symmetry, a property called chirality). Most biological amino acids on Earth have the same handedness, so the amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites formed inorganically. No wee creatures were involved. No big ones, either. The organic compounds in carbonaceous are very important, however. They may represent the type of materials that seeded the Earth with organic molecules, producing a complex, smelly soup in which life arose. Most of the studies of organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrites have focused on the origin of organics to the early Earth and on the processes in the cloud of gas and dust from which the solar system formed (the solar nebula or protoplanetary disk). Now, advanced instrumentation allows cosmochemists to investigate the origin of the carbonaceous gunk, and it appears that at least some of it formed in interstellar space before the Sun formed. It is presolar organic matter. The Murchison carbonaceous chondrite (a CM chondrite), shown on the left, was the first meteorite in which unambiguous evidence for organic compounds, including amino acids, was found. It fell in Australia in 1969. Searching for Presolar Organic Compounds Henner Busemann and his colleagues concentrated their work on CR chondrites. These are carbonaceous chondrites that contain metallic iron and appear to be primitive (relatively unaltered since their parent asteroid formed). Previous research on CR chondrites hinted that they have unusual deuterium/hydrogen ratios. (Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen. Its nucleus contains a proton and a neutron; hydrogen's nucleus contains only a proton.) The team analyzed samples using two different ion microprobes (see PSRD article: Ion Microprobe capable of making images of the distribution of hydrogen and nitrogen isotopes. They studied two types of samples. One type was extracted by using a highly acidic solution of cesium fluoride and hydrochloric acid. This procedure dissolves everything but insoluble organic matter, which is nicknamed IOM. The other material was small chips of the dark, fine-grained matrix of the chondrites. lightbulb The results are quite startling. Instead of the modest enrichments in deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) observed in bulk analyses of meteorites, Busemann and his coworkers found very high values of D/H, higher than even observed in interplanetary dust particles. (The D/H ratio is expressed as delta D (δD), a measure of the deviation in the D/H ratio from a terrestrial standard.) The highest values were found in pure separates of insoluble organic matter. Tiny spots in two of the meteorite organic separates record the highest valu
[meteorite-list] Hambleton Info
Hi all... I see that Rob Elliott has updated the Fernlea page with details of his English pallasite find Hambleton. Well worth a read... http://fernlea.tripod.com/hambleton.html Matt. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Sale- Collection Pieces
Thanks Jim, Yeah, You dont find Gibeon slices like this everyday Heres the link again: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6633233792&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 Bob - Original Message - From: "Jim Strope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sale- Collection Pieces Bob That is an incredible slice of Gibeon. Everyone needs to take a look, even if not bidding. Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 http://www.catchafallingstar.com - Original Message - From: "Bob Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 8:34 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Sale- Collection Pieces Hello, I listed a couple from my collection. If you collect esthetic Irons you have to check out my Gibeon slice with large Troilite inclusion Here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6633233792&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Hans Koser mobil phone
Hello any of you have info if Hans Koser have change mobil phone number? I call him but the voice say its not attainable Matteo M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.it Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info MSN Messanger: spacerocks at hotmail.com EBAY.COM:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mcomemeteorite/ ___ Yahoo! Messenger with Voice: chiama da PC a telefono a tariffe esclusive http://it.messenger.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Sale- Collection Pieces
Bob That is an incredible slice of Gibeon. Everyone needs to take a look, even if not bidding. Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 http://www.catchafallingstar.com - Original Message - From: "Bob Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 8:34 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Sale- Collection Pieces Hello, I listed a couple from my collection. If you collect esthetic Irons you have to check out my Gibeon slice with large Troilite inclusion Here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6633233792&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
