[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - December 12, 2007

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http://www.rocksfromspace.org/December_12_2007.html  




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[meteorite-list] "Thank You" from an 8 year meteorite fan.

[Ruben Garcia]

Hi all,
Wow! Since I posted that last email I've had people
emailing and telling me what they sent. It looks like
little Josh recieved between 20-30 meteorites and tons
of photos. Thanks also to Paul and Jim
(Meteorite-Times) who sent meteorites as well as Jims
Meteor Crater book. 

We have some cool prople on this list!

Ruben Garcia
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[meteorite-list] AD UPDATE - 10 piece Uruacu Whole Sale Lot Price Reduction

[David & Kitt Deyarmin]

This Lot is comprised of 9 normal 3-5mm thick slices and one 15mm thick 
slice


The total weight of the lot is 339 grams and I'm asking $150 which is less 
then 50 cents per gram


Uruacu is more difficult to cut but my process leaves a very smooth surface 
so there will be very little work needed to sand, polish and etch these 
slices.


The 15mm thick slice weighs 158 grams, if you don't want it I'll sell the 
remaining 9 slices, which weigh, 180 grams for $90



Most are loaded with cohenite-schreibersite inclusions.  The bottom right 
slice had a fissure in it and once it was cut it separated into 2 slices so 
one side is cut and the other has a crust like weathered surface.


This isn't a good picture but it gives you an idea of what they look like

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Re: [meteorite-list] My Meteorite Collection

[Jerry]

Willamette, NICE!!!
Jerry Flaherty
- Original Message - 
From: "Don Merchant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:47 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] My Meteorite Collection


Hi List. I finally had some time on my hands to take some pics and load 
them up so any of you out there tonight who are board can check out some 
of my collection. I know many are not huge but many are extremely Rare and 
very very difficult to acquire. I know the pics are not all that great but 
because of all the glass and clear plastic cases I could not use bright 
lights or flash because of reflection. Just click on the site address 
below and then click a pic. You may have to click back the page to click 
another pic. Hope you enjoy.

Sincerely
Don Merchant
IMCA # 0960

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[meteorite-list] holy grail of martian meteorites - correction

[Robert Verish]

Pete,

Thanks for the headsup on the typo error.

Bob V.

--

Amazing how fast time flies.
Doesn't seem that long ago that a slice of LA 002 was
considered unattainable, and was spoken of as the
"holy grail" of basaltic shergottites.  

Yet it's still a unique and UNPAIRED martian
meteorite. 

But that was Mars rock #15 then, and this is now...

Had to cut a slice of this Los Angeles stone for some
researchers, and look what we found:



and here is that same slice, but swabbed in alcohol:




The alcohol darkens the groundmass, causing the
pyroxene grains to stand out in contrast.  The long
pyroxene lath in the lower right corner is over an
inch long (~2.5cm)!  

Has anybody seen a longer crystal in a Mars rock?

Curious,
Bob V.
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[meteorite-list] National Geographic Channel

[Jerry]

A National Geographic show, "EXPLORER", entitled, 'Mammoth Mystery', delves 
into an extinction event which may have been responsible for the Mammoth's 
demise. Reputedly, a comet or asteroid impact or [Tunguska like air 
burst]??!
Check it out if you have cable or satellite TV. Use the GUIDE to find 
rebroadcasts this weekend.
Jerry Flaherty 


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Re: [meteorite-list] "Thank You" from an 8 year meteorite fan.

[LITIG8NSHARK]

Good evening Folks,

I have to say.it  makes a heart feel good.and feel proud.  Thanks 
once again to the Folks  belonging to our list, another inquisitive mind is 
primed for our beloved  vocation/avocation.  Sometimes, it takes so little to 
mean 
so  much.

Best regards,

Paul Martyn
Savannah, GA

In a  message dated 12/11/2007 9:38:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Ruben Garcia) writes:
Hi all,
After I posted  a "help" letter from an 8 year old
meteorite fan, several people came to the  rescue. As
far as I can tell he received at least 8 meteorites
and lots of  pictures from Delbert Waterbury, Jeff
Hodges and Don Edwards as well as  others.

Below is the link to his thank you letter.  

http://www.mr-meteorite.com/youngmeteoritefan.htm  




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[meteorite-list] NWA weathering

[mckinney trammell]

why do all nwa's weather to rock that looks like iron
ore? even aubrites, etc., do it! why do they all
weather to look basically the same- angular
chunx-o-iron ore?


  

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[meteorite-list] Fw: holy grail of martian meteorites

[Peter A Shugar]

- Original Message - 
From: "Robert Verish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" 
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:17 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] holy grail of martian meteorites



Amazing how fast time flies.
Doesn't seem that long ago that a slice of LA 002 was
considered unattainable, and was spoken of as the
"holy grail" of basaltic shergottites.

Yet it's still a unique and UNPAIRED martian
meteorite.

But that was Mars rock #15 then, and this is now...

Had to cut a slice of this Los Angeles stone for some
researchers, and look what we found:



and here is that same slice, but swabbed in alcohol:



The alcohol darkens the groundmass, causing the
pyroxene grains to stand out in contrast.  The long
pyroxene lath in the lower right corner is over an
inch long (~2.5cm)!

Has anybody seen a longer crystal in a Mars rock?

Curious,
Bob V.


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Re: [meteorite-list] barwell for sale

[mckinney trammell]

sold.
--- mckinney trammell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> have a killer 15.9 g barwell w/ CRUST for $100 usd/G
> OBO. EXCELLENT CHRISTMAS METEORITE.
> 
> 
>  
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[meteorite-list] "Thank You" from an 8 year meteorite fan.

[Ruben Garcia]

Hi all,
After I posted a "help" letter from an 8 year old
meteorite fan, several people came to the rescue. As
far as I can tell he recieved at least 8 meteorites
and lots of pictures from Delbert Waterbury, Jeff
Hodges and Don Edwards as well as others.

Below is the link to his thank you letter. 

http://www.mr-meteorite.com/youngmeteoritefan.htm

Ruben Garcia
Phoenix, Arizona
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[meteorite-list] LA 002

[Peter A Shugar]

The links would be so much better IF they were different, BUT both links are 
the same!!
Pete 


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Re: [meteorite-list] My Meteorite Collection

[Bob Evans]

Very Nice ! Thanks for sharing
- Original Message - 
From: "Don Merchant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] My Meteorite Collection


Hi List. I finally had some time on my hands to take some pics and load 
them up so any of you out there tonight who are board can check out some 
of my collection. I know many are not huge but many are extremely Rare and 
very very difficult to acquire. I know the pics are not all that great but 
because of all the glass and clear plastic cases I could not use bright 
lights or flash because of reflection. Just click on the site address 
below and then click a pic. You may have to click back the page to click 
another pic. Hope you enjoy.

Sincerely
Don Merchant
IMCA # 0960

http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc276/emflocater/
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[meteorite-list] In Japan for the Tokyo show.

[Michael Farmer]

Hi everyone, [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Japan for the next week for
the Tokyo mineral show in Ikebukuro. I will have daily
email, but no much time as the show and after show
Sake binges seem to eat up the time:) 

On another note, Randall Gregory is now making
personal threats to me, which seem to be bordering on
nutjob obsessive. He is emailing me google earth
photos of my house (not too difficult to find for a 5
year old) but it seems he is going over the edge of
insanity. Anyone who plays with this guy is looking
for a serious buddy who rants day and night.
Just a friendly warning to stay away from stray dogs,
lest they follow you home.
Michael Farmer
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[meteorite-list] My Meteorite Collection

[Don Merchant]

Hi List. I finally had some time on my hands to take some pics and load them 
up so any of you out there tonight who are board can check out some of my 
collection. I know many are not huge but many are extremely Rare and very 
very difficult to acquire. I know the pics are not all that great but 
because of all the glass and clear plastic cases I could not use bright 
lights or flash because of reflection. Just click on the site address below 
and then click a pic. You may have to click back the page to click another 
pic. Hope you enjoy.

Sincerely
Don Merchant
IMCA # 0960

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[meteorite-list] barwell for sale

[mckinney trammell]

have a killer 15.9 g barwell w/ CRUST for $100 usd/G
OBO. EXCELLENT CHRISTMAS METEORITE.


  

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[meteorite-list] holy grail of martian meteorites

[Robert Verish]

Amazing how fast time flies.
Doesn't seem that long ago that a slice of LA 002 was
considered unattainable, and was spoken of as the
"holy grail" of basaltic shergottites.  

Yet it's still a unique and UNPAIRED martian
meteorite. 

But that was Mars rock #15 then, and this is now...

Had to cut a slice of this Los Angeles stone for some
researchers, and look what we found:



and here is that same slice, but swabbed in alcohol:



The alcohol darkens the groundmass, causing the
pyroxene grains to stand out in contrast.  The long
pyroxene lath in the lower right corner is over an
inch long (~2.5cm)!  

Has anybody seen a longer crystal in a Mars rock?

Curious,
Bob V.


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[meteorite-list] Non-Meteorite

[Peter A Shugar]

dingity dangity I hope someone had a camera handy. That would make a good 
photo.

Pete

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Re: [meteorite-list] Not a comet

[Jerry]

Oh Darn.!! I had MY name on that too!!
Jerry Flaherty
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Not a comet



Anyone catch the non-comet?

http://www.wral.com/weather/blogpost/2154750/
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[meteorite-list] Not a comet

[Darren Garrison]

Anyone catch the non-comet?

http://www.wral.com/weather/blogpost/2154750/
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[meteorite-list] The Best Way to Deflect an Asteroid

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09_5_asteroid.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The Best Way to Deflect an Asteroid
By LIA MILLER 
New York Times
December 9, 2007

In 1908, an asteroid is thought to have entered the earth's atmosphere
and exploded over a Siberian forest, leveling some 800 square miles of
trees in what is known as the Tunguska Event. If we knew today that
another asteroid were on a path to intersect with our planet, what could
we do?

Massimiliano Vasile, a lecturer in aerospace engineering at the
University of Glasgow, recently concluded a two-year study comparing
nine asteroid-deflection methods, rating them for efficiency, complexity
and launch readiness.

The best method, called "mirror bees," entails sending a group of small
satellites equipped with mirrors 30 to 100 feet wide into space to
'swarm" around an asteroid and trail it, Vasile explains. The mirrors
would be tilted to reflect sunlight onto the asteroid, vaporizing one
spot and releasing a stream of gases that would slowly move it off
course. Vasile says this method is especially appealing because it could
be scaled easily: 25 to 5,000 satellites could be used, depending on the
size of the rock.

The losing ideas - satellites equipped with lasers; detonating a nuclear
explosion; pushing the asteroid with a spacecraft, to name a few - might
still have their place. Vasile says improved technologies could make
others appealing in the future. (In March, NASA released a report on 
"near Earth objects" that deemed the nuclear-explosion method the most 
effective.)

Michael Gaffey, professor of space studies at the University of North
Dakota, says the risk of dying from an asteroid strike is about 1 in 2
million. The problem is that the consequences are tremendous; a
half-mile-wide asteroid or larger, of which there are more than 700 that
come close to Earth's orbit, could have an impact equal to 60 billion
tons of TNT. While it is not likely to happen, you still want to be
prepared. "You don't panic, you don't have to run around screaming and
waving your hands," Gaffey says. "But you do need to devote resources to
it.
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[meteorite-list] Arctic Impact Crater Lake Reveals Interglacial Cycles in Sediments

[Ron Baalke]

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/11974.htm

FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Arctic Impact Crater Lake Reveals Interglacial Cycles in Sediments
Univerity of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A University of Arkansas researcher and a team of
international scientists have taken cores from the sediments of a
Canadian Arctic lake and found an interglacial record indicating two
ice-free periods that could pre-date the Holocene Epoch.

Sonja Hausmann, assistant professor of geosciences in the J. William
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas,
and her colleagues will report their preliminary findings at the
American Geophysical Union meeting this week.

The researchers traveled by increasingly smaller planes, Ski-doos and
finally sleds dragged on foot to arrive at the Pingualuit Crater,
located in the Parc National des Pingualuit in northern Quebec. The
crater formed about 1.4 million years ago as the result of a meteorite
impact, and today it hosts a lake about 267 meters deep. Its unique
setting - the lake has no surface connection to other surrounding water
bodies - makes it a prime candidate for the study of lake sediments.

Scientists study lake sediments to determine environmental information
beyond historical records. Hausmann studies diatoms, unicellular algae
with shells of silica, which remain in the sediments. Diatoms make
excellent bioindicators, Hausmann said, because the diatom community
composition changes with environmental changes in acidity, climate,
nutrient availability and lake circulation.

By examining relationships between modern diatom communities and their
environment, Hausmann and her colleagues can reconstruct various
historic environmental changes quantitatively.

However, most sediments of lakes in previously glaciated areas have
limitations - they only date back to the last ice age.

"Glaciers are powerful. They polish everything," Hausmann said. Glaciers
typically carve out any sediments in a lake bed, meaning any record
before the ice age is swept away.

However, the unique composition of the Pingualuit Crater Lake led Michel
A. Bouchard to speculate in 1989 that the sediments beneath its icy
exterior might have escaped glacial sculpting. So in May of this year,
Hausmann and her colleagues donned parkas, hauled equipment on ski-doos
and slogged through sub-zero temperatures for three weeks so they could
core sediments and collect data from the lake.

They carefully carved squares of ice out to make a small hole for
equipment, then began a series of investigations that included pulling
up a core of the topmost 8.5 meters of sediment. An echosounder
indicated that the lake bottom may have more than 100 meters of
relatively fine-grained sediments altogether. During the time since the
expedition, researchers have examined the physical, magnetic and
sedimentological properties of the sediment core.

The sediment core contains mostly faintly laminated silts or sandy mud
with frequent pebble-size rock fragments, which is typical of deposits
found in water bodies covered by an ice sheet. Sandwiched in the middle
of the faintly laminated silts and sandy mud, the researchers found two
distinct and separate layers containing organically rich material that
most likely date back well before the Holocene, representing earlier
ice-free periods. The samples they found contain the remains of diatoms
and other organic material, suggesting that they represent ice-free
conditions and possibly interglacial periods.

"There are no paleolimnological studies of lakes that cover several warm
periods in this area," Hausmann said. The terrestrial record will be
complementary to marine records or to long ice-core records from Greenland.

The international team of researchers in the field included Guillaume
St-Onge; Reinhard Pienitz, principal investigator; Veli-Pekka Salonen of
the University of Helsinki, Finland; and Richard Niederreiter, coring
expert. Please visit http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/pingualuit/index.html for
more information.

###

Contact:

Sonja Hausmann, assistant professor, geosciences
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
(479) 575-6419, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Melissa Lutz Blouin, director of science and research communications
University Relations
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[meteorite-list] SMART-1: Travel Maps of the Lunar North Pole

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMMH029R9F_index_0.html

SMART-1: Travel maps of the lunar north pole
European Space Agency 
5 December 2007

A new map obtained with SMART-1 data shows the geography and
illumination of the lunar north pole. Such maps will be of great use for
future lunar explorers.
 
The lunar poles are very interesting for future science and exploration
of the Moon mainly because of their exposure to sunlight. They display
areas of quasi-eternal light, have a stable thermal environment and are
close to dark areas that could host water ice – potential future lunar
base sites.

The SMART-1 north pole map, covering an area of about 800 by 600 km,
shows geographical locations of some craters of interest. Peary is a
large impact crater closest to the north pole. At this latitude the
interior of the crater receives little sunlight, but SMART-1 was able to
observe it during phases when the crater floor was sufficiently
illuminated for imaging.

A previous lunar mission, the U.S. Clementine, observed the Peary crater
during the north summer, and identified some areas particularly
illuminated by the sun in that season. With its Advanced Moon Imaging
Experiment (AMIE) micro-camera, SMART-1 has complemented this data set
by identifying the areas that are also well-illuminated during northern
winter.

[SMART-1 north pole travel map]
 
"Solar illumination makes these areas ideal for robotic outposts or
lunar bases making use of solar power," says ESA's SMART-1 Project
Scientist, Bernard Foing.

Hermite is another lunar impact crater located along the northern lunar
limb, close to the north pole of the Moon. Looking from Earth, it is
viewed nearly from the side, illuminated by oblique sunlight.

Crater Plaskett is located on the northern far-side of the Moon, about
200 km from the north pole. It receives sunlight at a low angle. Because
of the isolation of this crater and its location near the lunar limb, it
has been suggested as a possible additional site of a future lunar base
that could be used to simulate isolated conditions during a manned
mission to Mars.

"From the crater rim, rovers could be sent out to explore nearby craters
which are permanently in shadow and may contain water ice. If the layers
of ice come from the volatiles deposited by comets and water-rich
asteroids, we could better understand how, and how much, water and
organic material was delivered to Earth over its history," said Foing.

 
 
Notes for editors:
 
These images were analysed in the framework of a study project for the
design and operations of lunar polar robotic landers and rovers, by
Marina Ellouzi, a Master's student in space engineering at the
Paris-Meudon Observatory. The polar mosaics were presented and discussed
at the 9th ILEWG International lunar conference in October 2007.
 
 
For more information:
 
Bernard Foing, ESA SMART-1 Project Scientist
Email: Bernard.Foing @ esa.int

Jean - Luc Josset, SMART-1 AMIE Principal Investigator, Space-X Space
Exploration Institute
Email : Jean-Luc.Josset @ space-x.ch

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Re: [meteorite-list] 1st Meeting of the International Primitive Body Exploration Working Group (IPEWG)

[Zelimir Gabelica]

Thanks Ron for this very interesting information.

For those who will be reading the message directly (without consulting the 
attached web site), the year is neither 2006 (as indicated), fortunately 
neither 2007 (only one month from now !) but 2008.


Enough time to possibly finalize some collaborative research related to the 
conference scope and hopefully to plan attending...
From my old travel memories, I can say that Okinawa is a super nice place, 
something in between the busy civilization in Central Japan and the leisure 
characterizing the Pacific coral reef islets. Spring-type weather expected 
even in mid January...


Zelimir


A 09:40 11/12/2007 -0800, Ron Baalke a écrit :


http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/okinawa_index.html

The First Meeting of
The International Primitive Body Exploration Working Group (IPEWG)
January 14-15, 2006
Okinawa, Japan

[ATTENTION]
A Possible Extension of
the Meeting until January 16th

Thanks to strong responces received by now,
we are cyrrently invetigating a possibility to extend the meeting for
one more day, i.e., to continue until Januray 16th.

Please be warned and plan your travel schedule carefully.  We will
update this page as soon as such an schedule extension is decided and we
will send emails to all those who have registered by then.




Thanks to successful development of enabling technologies for deep space
exploration, missions to small solar system bodies have revolutionized
our understandingof the Solar System's origin and evolution in the last
decade. At present, rendezvous, impact, landing and sample return
missions to asteroids and
comets such as NEAR-Shoemaker, Hayabusa, Stardust, Deep Impact,
Rosetta,Dawn, EPOXI and NEXT as well as New Horizons, a fly-by mission
to EKBOs, are completed or still in the middle of operation.

Also more challenging, new missions are under development or under
concept studies by several space agencies including Hayabusa-2, Hayabusa
Mk-II(Marco Polo), Don Quijote, OSIRIS, and Phobos-Grunt.

In addition to scientific and engineering motivations, NEO studies
receive increasing interests in the context of planetary defense, deep
space human spaceflight and potential in-situ resource utilization.

In 1980's, the inter-agency coordination group for Comet Halley
exploration proved that synergy of coordinated individual missions could
enrich total outcomes more than each result combined.Since then,
international exploration working groups participated by international
space agencies have been formed
and played key roles for advancing fields of solar terrestrial physics,
Moon and Mars missions.

As we are entering the second golden age of the primitive body
exploration in upcoming decade, now is the appropriate time to create
the International Primitive Body Exploration Working Group (IPEWG) in
order to promote international collaborations and to maximize outcomes
of each mission. With these in mind, the first IPEWG meeting will be
hosted by JAXA at Okinawa,the southern-most, tropical island in Japan.
All space agencies, scientists, engineers and other interested
stakeholders are cordially invited.


JSPEC Program Office : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA)
JAXA Space Exploration Center(JSPEC)
3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa. 229-8510, JAPAN
Fax. +81-42-759-8675

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Prof. Zelimir Gabelica
Université de Haute Alsace
ENSCMu, Lab. GSEC,
3, Rue A. Werner,
F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France
Tel: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 94
Fax: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 15

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[meteorite-list] 1st Meeting of the International Primitive Body Exploration Working Group (IPEWG)

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/okinawa_index.html

The First Meeting of 
The International Primitive Body Exploration Working Group (IPEWG)
January 14-15, 2006
Okinawa, Japan
 
[ATTENTION]
A Possible Extension of
the Meeting until January 16th

Thanks to strong responces received by now,
we are cyrrently invetigating a possibility to extend the meeting for
one more day, i.e., to continue until Januray 16th.

Please be warned and plan your travel schedule carefully.  We will
update this page as soon as such an schedule extension is decided and we
will send emails to all those who have registered by then.




Thanks to successful development of enabling technologies for deep space
exploration, missions to small solar system bodies have revolutionized
our understandingof the Solar System's origin and evolution in the last
decade. At present, rendezvous, impact, landing and sample return
missions to asteroids and
comets such as NEAR-Shoemaker, Hayabusa, Stardust, Deep Impact,
Rosetta,Dawn, EPOXI and NEXT as well as New Horizons, a fly-by mission
to EKBOs, are completed or still in the middle of operation.

Also more challenging, new missions are under development or under
concept studies by several space agencies including Hayabusa-2, Hayabusa
Mk-II(Marco Polo), Don Quijote, OSIRIS, and Phobos-Grunt.

In addition to scientific and engineering motivations, NEO studies
receive increasing interests in the context of planetary defense, deep
space human spaceflight and potential in-situ resource utilization.

In 1980's, the inter-agency coordination group for Comet Halley
exploration proved that synergy of coordinated individual missions could
enrich total outcomes more than each result combined.Since then,
international exploration working groups participated by international
space agencies have been formed
and played key roles for advancing fields of solar terrestrial physics,
Moon and Mars missions.

As we are entering the second golden age of the primitive body
exploration in upcoming decade, now is the appropriate time to create
the International Primitive Body Exploration Working Group (IPEWG) in
order to promote international collaborations and to maximize outcomes
of each mission. With these in mind, the first IPEWG meeting will be
hosted by JAXA at Okinawa,the southern-most, tropical island in Japan.
All space agencies, scientists, engineers and other interested
stakeholders are cordially invited.


JSPEC Program Office : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA)
JAXA Space Exploration Center(JSPEC)
3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa. 229-8510, JAPAN
Fax. +81-42-759-8675  
   
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[meteorite-list] OT: Ainu tale of the Man in the Moon; Comet in World Languages and other entries

[drtanuki]

Dear List,
  I have added several new entries for World Languages
for Meteorites, Sun, Moon, Stars and a new page
Comets.

  If anyone is interested in the Ainu- Man in the Moon
tale please take a look at the Moon in World Languages
page, Ainu entry:

 http://meteoritesjapan.com/luna.aspx


 Tale of the Man in the Moon Part 1 (only):
CHUP ORO USH GURU ORUSHPE. (The Tale of the Man on the
Moon)
  OtdeEa anakne ona itak unu itak shomo nu, a wakka
tare yakka kopan, aine, kamui irushka gusu, chu-kamui
samata a-ande, moshirEebita a-upakashinu gusu an
gun’ne. Chup orush gun’ne. Tambe gusu shinrit itak wen
yakka pirika yakka a-nup ne na. Tambe neyakka
utarEobitta nu yan.

In ancient times there was a lad who would neither
obey his father nor his mother, and who even disliked
to fetch water; so, the gods being angry, they put him
in the side of the moon as a warning to all people.
This is the man in the moon. For this reason, let all
the world understand that the words of parents,
whether they be good or evil, must be obeyed. 

  For the rest of the Tale please take a look at the
page:

 http://meteoritesjapan.com/luna.aspx

  All of the pages can be accessed from the Home page
at:
http://meteoritesjapan.com/default.aspx

  Thank you!  Best Always, Dirk Ross...Tokyo

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[meteorite-list] AD: esthitical mali /chergach for sale.

[habibi abdelaziz]

hello list members,
this is 364 gr nice mali/ chergach meteorite .
 full of flow lines and very beautyfull.
very esthitical meteorite , a sculture.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi/

please make me your offer to.
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all the best
aziz

 


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phone. 21235576145 
fax.21235576170


  
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[meteorite-list] Fw: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - December 11, 2007

[Mark Grossman]

That's a very interesting photo that Andreas posted.  Thanks!

I originally fell into meteorite collecting by first collecting autographs
of famous scientists.  It's kind of a long story, but in any event, I have a
few letters, some of which were written by Brezina, Berwerth, Daubree,
Lacroix, and Rosenbusch that deal with or mention meteorites.  And yes, I do
have some meteorite samples in my collection!

Anybody else collect old meteorite-related letters in addition to meteorite
samples?

Thanks again for the nice photo.  Really enjoyed seeing it.

Mark



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Re: [meteorite-list] Philippe Thomas' NWA 4460 Thin Section (1 left on EBAY)

[Philippe Thomas]

Hello Bernd and listees,


Thank you Bernd!

To illustrate your words about the #16 thin section, I have put online a new 
image of the complete thin section!
http://www.meteoritica.com/nwa4460.html

Enjoy,
Philippe
http://www.meteoritica.com/

Hello List, Chondrule and Thin Section Afficionados,

Last Thursday I wrote: "Can you see this hungry little porphyritic
'sibling' bug that's eating itself into its large POP neighbor in thin
section #16 of NWA 4460? 

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360002687517&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:DE:31
 

I also wrote that I would soon own three NWA 4460 (L3.9) thin sections.
The two TS I purchased last week arrived today and what I beheld when
I had my first curious peek through my stereo microscope, surely blew my
socks off. There are presently 131 thin sections in my collection and some
have lots of gorgeous chondrules but these NWA 4460 thin sections will
surely belong to my favorite ones for a long time to come!

This POP chondrule in #16 measures a whopping 5.5 mm - one of the largest
I have ever seen in an ordinary chondrite - and there are even two of these
sibling chondrules attacking their larger brother: one in the lower right
quadrant, the other in the upper left part Philippe's picture).

NWA 4460 is unusually rich in such porphyritic chondrules but there are
also beautiful textbook examples of radiating pyroxene chondrules which
nicely demonstrate undulose extinction when you rotate your thin section!

Philippe, thank you so much, merci beaucoup, for these beautiful thin sections!

Best pre-Xmas
Wishes,

Bernd


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[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - December 11, 2007

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