[meteorite-list] Major Meteorite Auction Tomorrow / Macovich @ Heritage Auction Galleries
Hi there! Tomorrow the following meteorites are being offered at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Should you have any questions or wish to be an absentee bidder, contact me at 917-213 -8265 or call Heritage directly at 214-528-3500 The catalog in which these meteorites appear is the most beautiful natural history catalog I've seen in the 14-years of such auctions...and the meteorites aren't too shabby either. ;-) Enjoy. At the intersection of modern art science, this core sample of an exotic meteorite contains olivine and peridot. The meteorite from which this specimen was cut was recovered from the Atacama Desert--- the highest desert on Earth--and possesses a British Museum of Natural History provenance. http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot13.html The largest piece of the Moon ever offered at auction and it's also the main mass of the most recently discovered lunar meteorite. http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot10.html Aesthetic meteorites are rare, and this natural sculpture from outer space is one such example. Although it's an abstraction of Michigan (see http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080604/ NEWS06/80604103/1008/NEWS ) , this 75-pound nickel-iron mass originates from the asteroid belt between Mars Jupiter and fell to Earth in Argentina. http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot02.html At 3/4 tons, this is among the larger iron meteorites known to exist. Also from the asteroid belt...via China. http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot01.html Extraterrestrial tenderizer: the largest portion of the only meteorite to have resulted in a documented fatality. It was a cowin Venezuela. Steak dinners followed. http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot20.html One of the largest slices of the single most researched meteorite-- and it happens to contain the oldest matter mankind can touch; it's the first material to have condensed from the gaseous nebula from which our solar system formed and is, in fact, true stardust. http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot19.html This extraterrestrial crystal ball is from a meteorite which fell above the Arctic Circle. As a result of grinding the meteorite into a sphere, the internal crystalline structure of an iron meteorite is now dramatized in three dimensions. http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot08.html PREVIEWS: Wednesday June 5th through Sunday June 7th/ 10:00a – 6.00p AUCTION: Sunday June 8th / 1.00p Heritage Auction Galleries / 3500 Maple Avenue / Dallas, Texas 75219 / (214) 528-3500 __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 7, 2008
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[meteorite-list] Carancas crater - 8 months later
Hello list, last week I visited the impact site in Carancas, Peru for my very last time. I´m heading back to Germany soon... I found the crater covered with a tarpaulin. After more than eight months since the impact it is pretty much eroded, the rims are much shallower than at my last visit on september 26, 2007. The water inside the crater ist approx. 30 cm deep, the crater bottom is completely shoaled. Although local authorities had claimed to preserve the crater in novermber 2007, obviously not very much has happend since then. There are 4 concrete pillars surrounding the crater, approx. 1,5 meters high, that ought to be the basis for a roof that was supposed to protect the crater from the heavy rainfall in the rainseason. However, it looks very much as if these construction works hav been stopped some time ago. As I write in my report, the structure of these pillows looks very similar to to the fragile character of the Carancas meteorites... There have been some diggings in the vicinity of the crater, it was explained to me that they are to redirect the flow of surface water. My guide (who was the same guy that brought me there on my first visit on september 22) told me that sometimes tourists came to Desaguadero to visit the crater. On the way there I was offered some meteorites. I found that most of them were just dust from mother earth, but among the dust were indeed some tiny meteorite fragments! I took the fragments and left the dust for the other tourists :-) You can find some fotos and my report (in german, but I mentioned the interesting part in this email) on my webblog: http://www.kosmologs.de/kosmo/blog/himmelslichter/chile-2008/2008-06-05/8-monate-danach-besuch-am-meteoritenkrater-von-carancas Best regards fom Peru: Jan -- Das Universum expandiert? Komisch, ich finde immer seltener einem Parkplatz! (Harald Lesch) Pt! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Comment and reply to Tunguska crater paper now available online
The comment and reply on the alleged crater associated with the Tunguska impact event are now online and free to download. The original paper is: Gasperini, L., F. Alvisi, G. Biasini, E. Bonatti, G. Longo, M. Pipan, M. Ravaioli and R. Serra, 2008, A possible impact crater for the 1908 Tunguska Event. Terra Nova. vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 245-251 doi: 10./j.1365-3121.2007.00742.x Web page http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10./j.1365-3121.2007.00742.x PDF file http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10./j.1365-3121.2008.00792.x The comment and reply are: Collins, G. S., N. Artemieva, K. Wünnemann, P. A. Bland, W. U. Reimold, and C. Koeberl, 2008, Evidence that Lake Cheko is not an impact crater. Terra Nova. vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 165–168 doi:10./j.1365-3121.2008.00791.x Web Page http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10./j.1365-3121.2008.00791.x PDF file http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10./j.1365-3121.2008.00792.x Gasperini, L., Enrico Bonatti, and Giuseppe Longo, 2008, Lake Cheko and the Tunguska Event: impact or non-impact? Terra Nova. vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 169-172, doi: 10./j.1365-3121.2008.00792.x Web Page http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10./j.1365-3121.2008.00792.x PDF file http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10./j.1365-3121.2008.00792.x Yours, Paul H. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Centimeter cubes- ad- made by hand from Muonionalusta meteorite-ad
Hi everyone I forgot to mention that I also put one on Ebay at a starting bid of $5 so if you are looking for a deal you can name your own price. Here is a link to my auctions http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsofindtypeZ15QQuseridZflattoprocksQQfclZ3QQsofocusZbsQQcatrefZC5QQfromZR7QQpfidZ0QQsinceZ30QQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1QQfrppZ50 On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Wow! Sonny -Original Message- From: Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 5:51 pm Subject: [meteorite-list] Centimeter cubes- ad- made by hand from Muonionalusta meteorite-ad Hi Everyone I have just finished making by hand, one at time some extremely cool centimeter cubes made from etched Muonionalusta meteorite. These are not mass produced these are meticulously hand crafted 1 at a time and as close to perfect as I can make them. Anyone who knows me knows I am pretty picky when it comes to finishing meteorites. I am very happy with these they are top of the line. They are all the same size and the same shape and they all have the same great etch, so I see no reason to photograph each one. They are all wellcentimeter cubes. Oh yea all that talk about about hand made to exact tolerances means they are not inexpensive either : ) You can have a look here http://www.meteoritefinder.com/centimeter-cubes-for%20-sale.htm Thanks -- Mike Miller 230 Greenway Dr. Kingman Az 86401 www.meteoritefinder.com 928-753-6825 __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- Mike Miller 230 Greenway Dr. Kingman Az 86401 www.meteoritefinder.com 928-753-6825 __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Utter and total meteorite geekjoy...!
Greetings fellow meteorite-afflicted ladies and gentlemen! It is with great geekjoy that I report the arrival of my very first copy of MAPS! Since I only recently joined, this is the first time I have held a copy in my hands. After briefly scanning through the pages, I am very impressed and can't wait to start digesting the wealth of material contained within. Sure, we have access to online versions of past issues, which I have indulged, but nothing compares to a physical hard copy. I was expecting some along the lines of the Journal Science, which is basically a magazine. MAPS is full-blown book. It must cost the MS a small fortune to print these! I was eager to join the MS, and considered the $110 membership dues to be a fine investment, and this was before I got my copy of MAPS. 2 or 3 copies of MAPS, in my mind, is well the $110 alone! Wow. I'm sorry if I am a gushing nerd. But I am bursting at the seams to sit down and start reading about the StarDust results and other papers within. For this meteorite nut, getting copies of MAPS in the mail is going to be true GEEKJOY. :) My hats off to the Meteoritical Society for offering this fine publication. I look forward to receiving copies of this for the rest of my natural lifespan. :) Regards and clear falling skies, MikeG . Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA) Member of the Meteoritical Society. Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network. Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/fine_meteorites_4_sale .. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD: Ebay Auctions Ending Soon
Greetings, I have some ebay auctions ending in a few hours from now as well as a few days. Ending in a few days will be one super nice crusted Lost City 5.28 grams, a smaller Lost City with no crust about 2 grams, a nice fresh Allende end piece and a nice Haxtun, Colorado H/L4 specimen 5.8 grams. I also have a larger Lost City 18 gram slice with crust that is available if anyone is interested in that. You can see my auctions here: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZalmittmetthat are still going. Thank you for your time. --AL Mitterling __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD: ebay auctions ending
Hi List, I have several ebay auctions ending in less than 24 hours. Those auctions include: - Dar al Gani 400 - beautiful lunar slice - NR ! - Estherville partslice - Mundrabilla endpiece - Carancas frag - beautiful partslice of the hard to find Kerilis meteorite and many more goodies. All of the auctions are still way below market value. Make sure to take a look. Find a full recap here: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmeteoriten or here: http://www.m3t3orites.com/ebay.php Thank you for looking and good luck in case you are bidding. Regards Moritz Karl http://www.m3t3orites.com Germany IMCA: 0818 __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Wanna Link to My Site? www.Mr-Meteorite.com
Hi all, I just finished my Other Cool Links page. http://www.mr-meteorite.com/othercoollinks.htm Anyone with a meteorite related web site wanna trade links with me? If so just let me know off list. So far I have Meteorite Magazine, Meteorite-Times, Meteorite Watch, and Meteorite Finder. I seem to get a fair number of hits - mostly due to my videos I think. I don't know if that will translate into more hits for you but it couldn't hurt.right? Ruben Garcia Phoenix, Arizona http://www.mr-meteorite.com __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
