[meteorite-list] AD - 0.7g Bencubbin polished slice for sale
Hullo, I have a 0.7g slice of the rare class type Bencubbin, beautifully polished on both sides and a lovely 50-50 mix of metal and rock http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/entropydave2001/Bencubbin07g/photo#5210518963242194354 If interested please email me offers! Paypal only for non-UK interestees! thanks! dave IMCA #0092 Sec.BIMS. www.bimsociety.org __ 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 11, 2008
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[meteorite-list] You are searching for meteorites?
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[meteorite-list] Ebay caution!
I think maybe I've picked up a bit of spyware (that my programs can't identify) and want to warn people in case it happens to them. When I go to sign in on Ebay, after I enter my username and password, THIS screen pops up: http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/eBayISAPI.pdf it has spelling and grammar errors, and is asking for far more information than is reasonable. And it only shows up when I try to log in from Internet Explorer, not Mozilla. So watch out! __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Ebay caution!
Make sure to report that to eBay: http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/stop_spoof_websites.html Also, if you do not have these installed on your PC, you should get them. Between the two of them they catch most all sypware and trojan horse types of programs. You still should have your virus protection program installed - these are freeware applications that work great to catch the rest of the garbage... Spybot Search Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html AdAware: http://lavasoft.com/ I've used both of them for years - they work great. If you have never run these before, you'll be shocked at how many things they find. Sean. - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:48 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Ebay caution! I think maybe I've picked up a bit of spyware (that my programs can't identify) and want to warn people in case it happens to them. When I go to sign in on Ebay, after I enter my username and password, THIS screen pops up: http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/eBayISAPI.pdf it has spelling and grammar errors, and is asking for far more information than is reasonable. And it only shows up when I try to log in from Internet Explorer, not Mozilla. So watch out! __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Ebay caution!
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:03:32 -0400, you wrote: if you do not have these installed on your PC, you should get them. Between the two of them they catch most all sypware and trojan horse types of programs. I have both (they were the programs that couldn't identify that I mentioned. Nada. I did some googling for part of the message text, and other people are seein the problem, too: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=648027 http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?p=1963665 http://www.gss.co.uk/news/article/3961/go __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Provisional Numbers
Hi , Would anyone know who is taking care of Provisional numbers? Thanks, Sonny __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080611-plutoid-planets.html Pluto Now Called a Plutoid By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 11 June 2008 10:30 am ET Updated 2:00 p.m. ET Pluto's years-long identity crisis just got more complex today. The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term plutoid as a name for Pluto and other objects that just two years ago were redefined as dwarf planets. The surprise decision is unlikely to stem ongoing controversy and confusion, astronomers say. Sidestepping concerns of many astronomers worldwide, the IAU's decision, at a meeting of its Executive Committee in Oslo, comes almost two years after it stripped Pluto of its planethood and introduced the term dwarf planets for Pluto and other small round objects that often travel highly elliptical paths around the sun in the far reaches of the solar system. Most of the people in astronomy and planetary science community had no idea this was going to come out, said Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Weaver called the new definition sort of outdated, outmoded, archaic. A meeting in August at the Applied Physics Laboratory is slated to debate the entire topic of defining planets. Meanwhile, other astronomers said the new definition needed more definition or that it might simply not be used. This seems like an unattractive term and an unnecessary one to me, said David Morrison, an astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center who, in 2006, said the IAU's actions on Pluto have created major rifts among astronomers. The new definition The name plutoid was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III and by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), and approved by the IAU Executive Committee at its recent meeting in Oslo, according to a statement released today. Here's the official new definition: Plutoids are celestial bodies in orbit around the sun at a distance greater than that of Neptune that have sufficient mass for their self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape, and that have not cleared the neighborhood around their orbit. In short: small round things beyond Neptune that orbit the sun and have lots of rocky neighbors. The two known and named plutoids are Pluto and Eris, the IAU stated. The organization expects more plutoids will be found. Rather than resistance to 'plutoid,' I think we'll just be hearing groans, said Stephen J. Kortenkamp, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. Controversy continues One IAU leader recognizes it is adding to an ongoing controversy. The IAU has been responsible for naming planetary bodies and their satellites since the early 1900s. Its decision in 2006 to demote Pluto was highly controversial, with some astronomers saying simply that they would not heed it and questioning the IAU's validity as a governing body. The IAU is a democratic organization, thus open to comments and criticism of any kind, IAU General Secretary Karel A. van der Hucht told SPACE.com by email today. Given the history of the issue, we will probably never reach a complete consensus. Van der Hucht said the new designation is not a further demotion for the once-favorite planet of grade-school children: Pluto is now the prototype of a very interesting category of outer solar system bodies. IAU Division III President Edward L.G. Bowell of the Lowell Observatory said the ruling stems from unfinished business from the forging of a planet definition in 2006. Bowell said there is no agreed-upon way to define dwarf planet yet, so officers of the IAU thought it would be a good idea to adopt alternative criteria that would at least allow those large bodies to be named as though they were dwarf planets. It remains to be seen whether astronomers will use the new term. My guess is that no one is going to much use this term, though perhaps I'm wrong, said Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, who has led the discovery of several objects in the outer solar system, including Eris. But I don't think that this will be because it is controversial, just not particularly necessary. Brown was unaware of the new definition until the IAU announced it today. Back when the term 'pluton' was nixed they said they would come up with another one, Brown said. So I guess they finally did. Reactions were not all negative, however. It seems like a reasonable decision to me, and given the excitement generated by New Horizons [a NASA probe headed for Pluto], it's in everyone's interest to favor the largest Kuiper belt objects with their own categorical designation, said Gregory Laughlin, a University of California, Santa Cruz extrasolar planet researcher. The only fly in the ointment that I can envision is if a plutoid larger, than, say, Mars is detected, Laughlin points out. In that case, I
[meteorite-list] No problem, they'll land at night
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/10jun_solarprobe.htm?list1065474 June 10, 2008: For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. We are going to visit a living, breathing star for the first time, says program scientist Lika Guhathakurta of NASA Headquarters. This is an unexplored region of the solar system and the possibilities for discovery are off the charts. Right: An artist's concept of Solar Probe Plus. [more] The name of the mission is Solar Probe+ (pronounced Solar Probe plus). It's a heat-resistant spacecraft designed to plunge deep into the sun's atmosphere where it can sample solar wind and magnetism first hand. Launch could happen as early as 2015. By the time the mission ends 7 years later, planners believe Solar Probe+ will solve two great mysteries of astrophysics and make many new discoveries along the way. The probe is still in its early design phase, called pre-phase A at NASA headquarters, says Guhathakurta. We have a lot of work to do, but it's very exciting. Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab (APL) will design and build the spacecraft for NASA. APL already has experience sending probes toward the sun. APL's MESSENGER spacecraft completed its first flyby of the planet Mercury in January 2008 and many of the same heat-resistant technologies will fortify Solar Probe+. (Note: The mission is called Solar Probe plus because it builds on an earlier 2005 APL design called Solar Probe.) At closest approach, Solar Probe+ will be 7 million km or 9 solar radii from the sun. There, the spacecraft's carbon-composite heat shield must withstand temperatures greater than 1400o C and survive blasts of radiation at levels not experienced by any previous spacecraft. Naturally, the probe is solar powered; it will get its electricity from liquid-cooled solar panels that can retract behind the heat-shield when sunlight becomes too intense. From these near distances, the Sun will appear 23 times wider than it does in the skies of Earth. The two mysteries prompting this mission are the high temperature of the sun's corona and the puzzling acceleration of the solar wind: Mystery #1the corona: If you stuck a thermometer in the surface of the sun, it would read about 6000o C. Intuition says the temperature should drop as you back away; instead, it rises. The sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, registers more than a million degrees Celsius, hundreds of times hotter than the star below. This high temperature remains a mystery more than 60 years after it was first measured. Mystery #2the solar wind: The sun spews a hot, million mph wind of charged particles throughout the solar system. Planets, comets, asteroidsthey all feel it. Curiously, there is no organized wind close to the sun's surface, yet out among the planets there blows a veritable gale. Somewhere in between, some unknown agent gives the solar wind its great velocity. The question is, what? To solve these mysteries, Solar Probe+ will actually enter the corona, says Guhathakurta. That's where the action is. The payload consists mainly of instruments designed to sense the environment right around the spacecrafte.g., a magnetometer, a plasma wave sensor, a dust detector, electron and ion analyzers and so on. In-situ measurements will tell us what we need to know to unravel the physics of coronal heating and solar wind acceleration, she says. Solar Probe+'s lone remote sensing instrument is the Hemispheric Imager. The HI for short is a telescope that will make 3D images of the sun's corona similar to medical CAT scans. The technique, called coronal tomography, is a fundamentally new approach to solar imaging and is only possible because the photography is performed from a moving platform close to the sun, flying through coronal clouds and streamers and imaging them as it flies by and through them. With a likely launch in May 2015, Solar Probe+ will begin its prime mission near the end of Solar Cycle 24 and finish near the predicted maximum of Solar Cycle 25 in 2022. This would allow the spacecraft to sample the corona and solar wind at many different phases of the solar cycle. It also guarantees that Solar Probe+ will experience a good number of solar storms near the end of its mission. While perilous, this is according to plan: Researchers suspect that many of the most dangerous particles produced by solar storms are energized in the coronajust where Solar Probe+ will be. Solar Probe+ may be able to observe the process in action and show researchers how to forecast Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events that threaten the health and safety of astronauts. Solar Probe+'s repeated plunges into the corona will be accomplished by means of Venus flybys. The spacecraft will swing by Venus seven times in six years to bend the probes trajectory deeper and deeper into the suns atmosphere. Bonus: Although Venus is not a primary target of the mission, astronomers may learn new things about
Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!
Hi All: I will probably be going to the August meeting in Maryland, so it will be interesting to see how this new terminology goes over. So everything round and icy (maybe) is a Plutoid, which means Pluto-like. Since we don't know what Pluto is (at least what to define it as), this really makes a whole lot of sense. NOT! I predict it will go over like a lead balloon. Larry L. The previous statements are the opinion of the author and may not reflect the opinions of other scientists. On Wed, June 11, 2008 12:58 pm, Darren Garrison wrote: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080611-plutoid-planets.html Pluto Now Called a Plutoid By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 11 June 2008 10:30 am ET Updated 2:00 p.m. ET Pluto's years-long identity crisis just got more complex today. The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term plutoid as a name for Pluto and other objects that just two years ago were redefined as dwarf planets. The surprise decision is unlikely to stem ongoing controversy and confusion, astronomers say. Sidestepping concerns of many astronomers worldwide, the IAU's decision, at a meeting of its Executive Committee in Oslo, comes almost two years after it stripped Pluto of its planethood and introduced the term dwarf planets for Pluto and other small round objects that often travel highly elliptical paths around the sun in the far reaches of the solar system. Most of the people in astronomy and planetary science community had no idea this was going to come out, said Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Weaver called the new definition sort of outdated, outmoded, archaic. A meeting in August at the Applied Physics Laboratory is slated to debate the entire topic of defining planets. Meanwhile, other astronomers said the new definition needed more definition or that it might simply not be used. This seems like an unattractive term and an unnecessary one to me, said David Morrison, an astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center who, in 2006, said the IAU's actions on Pluto have created major rifts among astronomers. The new definition The name plutoid was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III and by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), and approved by the IAU Executive Committee at its recent meeting in Oslo, according to a statement released today. Here's the official new definition: Plutoids are celestial bodies in orbit around the sun at a distance greater than that of Neptune that have sufficient mass for their self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape, and that have not cleared the neighborhood around their orbit. In short: small round things beyond Neptune that orbit the sun and have lots of rocky neighbors. The two known and named plutoids are Pluto and Eris, the IAU stated. The organization expects more plutoids will be found. Rather than resistance to 'plutoid,' I think we'll just be hearing groans, said Stephen J. Kortenkamp, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. Controversy continues One IAU leader recognizes it is adding to an ongoing controversy. The IAU has been responsible for naming planetary bodies and their satellites since the early 1900s. Its decision in 2006 to demote Pluto was highly controversial, with some astronomers saying simply that they would not heed it and questioning the IAU's validity as a governing body. The IAU is a democratic organization, thus open to comments and criticism of any kind, IAU General Secretary Karel A. van der Hucht told SPACE.com by email today. Given the history of the issue, we will probably never reach a complete consensus. Van der Hucht said the new designation is not a further demotion for the once-favorite planet of grade-school children: Pluto is now the prototype of a very interesting category of outer solar system bodies. IAU Division III President Edward L.G. Bowell of the Lowell Observatory said the ruling stems from unfinished business from the forging of a planet definition in 2006. Bowell said there is no agreed-upon way to define dwarf planet yet, so officers of the IAU thought it would be a good idea to adopt alternative criteria that would at least allow those large bodies to be named as though they were dwarf planets. It remains to be seen whether astronomers will use the new term. My guess is that no one is going to much use this term, though perhaps I'm wrong, said Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, who has led the discovery of several objects in the outer solar system, including Eris. But I don't think that this will be because it is controversial, just not particularly necessary. Brown was unaware of the new definition until the IAU announced it today.
Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!
Let me be the first... groan! Chris * Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:58 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid! Rather than resistance to 'plutoid,' I think we'll just be hearing groans, said Stephen J. Kortenkamp, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA's Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-104 NASA's Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil Jet Propulsion Laboratory June 11, 2008 TUCSON, Ariz. - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil. We have an oven full, Phoenix co-investigator Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson, said today. It took 10 seconds to fill the oven. The ground moved. Boynton leads the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA, for Phoenix. The instrument has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil to assess its volatile ingredients, such as water. The lander's Robotic Arm delivered a partial scoopful of clumpy soil from a trench informally called Baby Bear to the number 4 oven on TEGA last Friday, June 6, which was 12 days after landing. A screen covers each of TEGA's eight ovens. The screen is to prevent larger bits of soil from clogging the narrow port to each oven so that fine particles fill the oven cavity, which is no wider than a pencil lead. Each TEGA chute also has a whirligig mechanism that vibrates the screen to help shake small particles through. Only a few particles got through when the screen on oven number 4 was vibrated on June 6, 8 and 9. Boynton said that the oven might have filled because of the cumulative effects of all the vibrating, or because of changes in the soil's cohesiveness as it sat for days on the top of the screen. There's something very unusual about this soil, from a place on Mars we've never been before, said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona. We're interested in learning what sort of chemical and mineral activity has caused the particles to clump and stick together. Plans prepared by the Phoenix team for the lander's activities on Thursday, June 12 include sprinkling Martian soil on the delivery port for the spacecraft's Optical Microscope and taking additional portions of a high-resolution color panorama of the lander's surroundings. The Phoenix mission is led by Smith with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, located in Denver. International contributions come from the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark; Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Media contacts: Guy Webster 818-354-6278 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sara Hammond 520-626-1974 University of Arizona, Tucson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] U. North Carolina Technology Enrolled in Hunt for Life on Mars
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill News Services contact: Patric Lane, (919) 962-8596 Tuesday, June 10, 2008 UNC technology enrolled in hunt for life on Mars Scientists looking for evidence of life on Mars have turned to technology invented by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers to help with their mission. A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has created a device for use on the European ExoMars rover mission scheduled for launch in 2013. That space voyage is one of several planned expeditions to the red planet that will follow in the footsteps of NASA's Phoenix mission, which landed on Mars late last month and this week began preparing to test soil samples. The microfluidic or lab-on-a-chip device -- which takes its name from the fact that the credit-card sized invention can perform multiple detailed laboratory tests -- could be used to analyze Martian soil and rock for traces of biological compounds such as amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. But until they turned to materials called perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs), which were first pioneered for use in the field of microfluidics by Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and his colleagues in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, the NASA team was having trouble making a chip that could withstand the rigors of the proposed mission. Jason Rolland, Ph.D., who helped invent PFPE materials for microfluidic devices when he was a graduate student in DeSimone's lab, said the tiny apparatus handle very small volumes of liquids through tiny channels, and are similar to microelectronic chips, but for fluids. The elastic nature of PFPEs makes it possible to incorporate moving parts such as tiny valves into the devices. In a paper co-written by Rolland and published recently in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip, the NASA team, led by Peter Willis, Ph.D., said devices made using PFPE membranes sandwiched between layers of glass were easier to make and greatly outperformed other materials such as PDMS and PTFE, commercially known as Teflon. The chips also held up to severe stress testing, surviving the equivalent of 1 million operations at temperatures ranging from 50 degrees Celsius to minus 50 degrees Celsius virtually unscathed. It turned out that the material fit right into the sweet spot of what NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed to enable this device to work, said Rolland, co-founder and director of research and development at Liquidia Technologies, a company which licensed the PFPE technology from UNC. There are several reasons to suspect that amino acids and other biological molecules could be found on the surface of Mars, Rolland said. If this device is able to confirm this, it would obviously be one of the most important discoveries of all time. It's exciting to think that UNC and Liquidia Technologies could be a part of that. To see the study, go to: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/LC/article.asp?doi=b804265a For more information about Liquidia, go to http://www.liquidia.com For information about NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Note: Rolland can be reached at (919) 991-0835 IMAGE CAPTION: [http://uncnews.unc.edu/images/stories/news/science/2008/exomars%20rover_esa.jpg (2.6MB)] The ExoMars rover (photo credit: European Space Agency) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update: May 29 - Jun 03, 2008
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html#opportunity OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: On the Road Again! - sol 1545-1550, May 29 - Jun 03, 2008: After passing a series of tests to earn a new driver's certificate, Opportunity resumed driving while keeping its robotic arm in a new, stowed position that is essentially mostly unstowed. Engineers studied the vehicle's response in a variety of scenarios and determined that the new, unstowed position minimizes joint stresses, provides a clear field of view for driving, provides sufficient clearance between the turret holding the scientific instruments and the surface, and allows the largest possible work volume for in-situ science. In fact, tests of a surrogate rover on Earth were in some ways an overtest, because gravitational forces on Earth are greater than on Mars. Opportunity completed two drives, advancing about 0.5 meters (1.6 feet) on Sol 1547 (May 31, 2008) and 0.22 meters (0.72 feet) on Sol 1550 (June 3, 2008). The robotic arm behaved as expected during both drives. Prior to the recent electrical anomaly that caused the robotic arm to stall, Opportunity performed a toe dip, during which the rover drove forward a short distance and then backward to characterize the sandy terrain en route to a promonotory dubbed Cape Verde. During the procedure, Opportunity experienced significant wheel slippage of more than 90 percent in addition to high tilt while moving backward. After a series of adjustments, rover operators discovered that the rover's front wheels had begun to dig into the terrain. They decided to stop driving forward and focus on driving backward to extract the rover's front wheels from the sand. During this week's two drives, Opportunity continued to make slow and steady progress toward backing out of the sand. Once the rover's wheels are free, Opportunity will head for a staging area to make more observations of the Cape Verde promontory. The staging area is about 15 meters (49 feet) away, or about the length of two passenger buses lined up end to end. Opportunity continued to acquire images for the full-color Garrels panorama as well as images of the soil target informally named Williams. The rover remains healthy and all subsystems are performing as expected. Solar-array energy has averaged about 475 watt-hours (100 watt-hours is the amount of energy needed to light a 100-watt bulb for one hour). Sol-by-sol summary: In addition to receiving morning instructions directly from Earth via the rover's high-gain antenna and measuring atmospheric dust with the panoramic camera, Opportunity completed the following activities: Sol 1545 (May 29, 2008): Opportunity acquired Part 12 of the Garrels panorama. Sol 1546: Opportunity took images of Williams, surveyed the sky at high Sun, took thumbnail images of the sky for calibration purposes and surveyed the horizon with the panoramic camera. Sol 1547: Opportunity drove 0.5 meters (1.6 feet). Before and after the drive, the rover took images of the robotic arm with the navigation camera. The rover took post-drive images of the surface near the wheels with the hazard-avoidance cameras and images of the surrounding terrain with the navigation camera. Sol 1548: In the morning, Opportunity took spot images of the sky for calibration purposes with the panoramic camera and six time-lapse movie frames in search of clouds with the navigation camera. The rover measured argon gas in the Martian atmosphere with the alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer. Sol 1549: After relaying data to NASA's Odyssey orbiter, Opportunity continued to measure atmospheric argon with the alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer. Sol 1550 (June 3, 2008): In the morning, Opportunity produced a six-frame, time-lapse movie in search of Martian clouds with the navigation camera. The rover drove 0.22 meters (0.72 feet) toward Cape Verde and acquired post-drive images with the hazard-avoidance and navigation cameras. After sending data to Odyssey, Opportunity measured atmospheric argon. Plans for the next morning called for Opportunity to acquire panoramic-camera images of the rover's external magnets and survey as well as acquire thumbnail images of the sky with the panoramic camera for calibation purposes. Odometry: As of sol 1550 (June 3, 2008), Opportunity's total odometry was 11,690.27 meters (7.26 miles). __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] New Fleabay Rant was Ebay caution!
Under Fleabay's thou shalt not speak any bad thing about Fleabay even it if it is the truth rule, I might never get my account back for sharing this horror story. I had a collision with the Flea-Bay monster last week that should give all pause if they ever think of letting a visitor or employee use their own computer to check a few auctions. According to the man behind the curtain we are supposed to not know exists, y FleaBay account was suspended because I had an associate who's account was suspended. Associate means ,in this case, anyone that has ever, at anytime in the past, used my computer. To Fleabay it also means your roommate, family member, kid across the street pirating your WiFi connection, anonymous user at the public library where you stopped to used a computer on a cross country trip. To heap insult they will not tell you the details of why they suspended you. Thy find you guilty BEFORE they investigate and approach it from that standpoint. I am guilty of having a former employee that was suspended-- even though the use itself was several months ago that she used my computer when she was in good standing. The appeal is processed by clearly government-grade/lower primate genus quality employees that the DMV obviously overlooked. I am in my third resending of supporting documents that any registered user who has my ebay user name can look up. I have to prove to ebay's satisfaction that when I set us my account 12 years ago and bought 2000+ items that I wasn't doing it to sneak in an auction for a suspended user 12 years into the future--again DMV quality logic. As to my associate Two months ago she was here working for me and I only had one internet conncection so we shared one computer. She was in good standing with Fleabay, then a week ago she was suspended for slow paying-- never mind that her PayPal account was hacked and emptied leaving her without funds to pay. Ebay's shild bidding routines apparently noticed that she had used several computers in the past and suspended all the accounts that ever shared those computers. When you bid, Fleabay actually interrogates your computer for a unique mac (not Macintosh) address on your computer or network cards or anything else connected to your computer that has a unique digital ID. They keep this file on you forever. Notice under Fleabay it makes no difference of your intent-you ARE guilty because their computer says so. You can be guilty today because you allowed something they themselves allow months ago. If you aren't paranoid already--consider that if run a business and bought a computer that was EVER used by an FUTURE suspended user you are at risk of PERPETUAL suspension from ever using Fleabay again.--Get this... It is all spelled out in your user agreement with them. And don't EVER use a public computer at a library to conduct business with Fleabay --that is a rigged roulette game where one past suspended user can take down anyone that has ever used that computer! Elton __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:10:25 -0700 (MST), you wrote: So everything round and icy (maybe) is a Plutoid, which means Pluto-like. Since we don't know what Pluto is (at least what to define it as), this really makes a whole lot of sense. NOT! http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/mfds.jpg __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!
Dear Darren: I am sorry that I have to disagree with what you depict in your photo. The Death Star did a pretty good job of clearing out its neighborhood either by blowing things up or drawing them in with a tractor beam! :o) Larry On Wed, June 11, 2008 2:21 pm, Darren Garrison wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:10:25 -0700 (MST), you wrote: So everything round and icy (maybe) is a Plutoid, which means Pluto-like. Since we don't know what Pluto is (at least what to define it as), this really makes a whole lot of sense. NOT! http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/mfds.jpg __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD: Super Rare Auctions Ending Today! See Highlights...
From: michael cottingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:35 PM To: 'michael cottingham' Subject: AD: Super Rare Auctions Ending Today! See Highlights... Hello Everyone, Ebay Store Has 10% off going on. Go to: http://stores.ebay.com/VOYAGE-BOTANICA-NATURAL-HISTORY Check These Out Links: Very Rare, MILENA, Croatia Fall From 1842 ! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228588486 Low Known Weight, TAHOKA, Texas, L5, 0.60g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228592842 Most Sought After! BONITA SPRINGS, FL. 0.51g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228592864 (NEW), NWA 5054, Wholesale Lot, L5, 502g #1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228592874 (NEW), NWA 4972, L4-5, Brecciated, 40.77g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228592888 Extremely Rare DEEP SPRINGS, NC,Ataxite,4.89g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228615524 One of THE RAREST- HONOLULU, Hawaii, 0.043g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228641796 Very Rare Achondrite, NWA 2635, 2.40 gram http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228644857 Extremely Rare ALLAN HILLS, Antarctica,76009 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200229203401 Very Rare and Beautiful, NWA 801, CR2, 4.52g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228934620 Ungrouped Ataxite, DRONINO, Russia, 114.29 g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228920554 LTKW, SACRAMENTO WASH 002, Az., H4, 2.76 g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228644839 NEW H7 Meteorite, Super Rare, NWA 4229, 0.86 gram http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228644871 NWA 2932, Beautiful Mesosiderite, 5.19 gram http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228644854 CANYON DIABLO Individual, 20.35 gram http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228644833 Difficult To Acquire MILLS, New Mexico, 2.70g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228623282 A Beautiful Meteorite Coin From Argentina http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228592916 Superb MONTURAQUI Impactite Individual 8.30g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228644830 1 Kilo Lot of Unclassified NWA, 1,000g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228592896 (NEW), NWA 4952, L/LL4-5, Brecciated, 4.63g http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=200228644863 And a few more. Thanks and Best Wishes Michael Cottingham __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Auction Results? - any word
Hi List, Any word on the results of the Auction yet? Tim Heitz NEW WEB SITE Midwest Meteorites - http://www.meteorman.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:50 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Auction Results? Hey Guys, Anyone with the results of the Auction this last weekend? All I saw in the news was that Michigan sold for $20,000, and the 3/4 ton Nantan went for $90,000. Steve Arnold #1 **Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg0005000102) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Auction Results? - any word
What you need to do is go to the Heritage web site, register, then you can gain access to the results. T. Bunch On 6/11/08 4:09 PM, Timothy Heitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, Any word on the results of the Auction yet? Tim Heitz NEW WEB SITE Midwest Meteorites - http://www.meteorman.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:50 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Auction Results? Hey Guys, Anyone with the results of the Auction this last weekend? All I saw in the news was that Michigan sold for $20,000, and the 3/4 ton Nantan went for $90,000. Steve Arnold #1 **Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg0005000102) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Auction Results? - any word
In a message dated 6/11/2008 7:41:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you need to do is go to the Heritage web site, register, then you can gain access to the results. T. Bunch Thanks. Interesting results. I would assume that if a lot is not listed in the Auctions Results Archives it would mean that particular lot did not reach the reserve price, and did not sale, although I didn't read that explanation anywhere on the site. Seems like prices pretty much hit the expected prices, a few up above estimates, a few below. Steve Arnold #1 **Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg0005000102) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] HERITAGE AUCTION / BONHAMS AUCTION
hi there! a few words HERITAGE there was interest in most specimens but participation was thin and the bidding by mostly lone buyers was largely against reserves. at the same time, it really must be noted that non-natural history auctions were also weak this past weekend. i believe this is in part a reflection of the economic news which occurred on friday: a 400 point drop in the DJIA and the $10/barrel jump in oil---the largest single incremental jump on record. a lot of folks just didn't show up. BONHAMS separately, i've received several emails as it regards LOT 4423 in the june 22nd bonhams' sale. PLEASE NOTE: i am no longer responsible for vetting all the meteorites in bonhams' sales, and yes, i agree LOT 4423 does not appear to be a sikhote-alin. given what is, at best, an inexplicably anomalous presentation for a sikhote-alin (and the seed-of-doubt that such offerings create), i strongly suggested to bonhams that this consignment be pulled from the june 22nd sale. apart from the foregoing, there are many terrific meteorites in this collection. thank you. all best / darryl On Jun 11, 2008, at 9:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/11/2008 7:41:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you need to do is go to the Heritage web site, register, then you can gain access to the results. T. Bunch Thanks. Interesting results. I would assume that if a lot is not listed in the Auctions Results Archives it would mean that particular lot did not reach the reserve price, and did not sale, although I didn't read that explanation anywhere on the site. Seems like prices pretty much hit the expected prices, a few up above estimates, a few below. Steve Arnold #1 **Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg0005000102) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] New Ebay caution!OT
I had a collision with the Flea-Bay monster last week that should give all pause if they ever think of letting a friend or employee use their own computer to check a few auctions. My eBay account was suspended because I had an associate who's account was suspended. Associate means in this case anyone that has ever used my computer. But to ebay it also means your roommate, family member, kid across the street pirating your WiFi connection, anonomous user at the public library where you stopped to used a computer on a cross country trip. Two months ago she was here working for me and I only had one internet conncection so we shared one computer. She was in good standing with Fleabay then a week ago she was suspended for slow paying. Ebay's shild bidding routines noticed that she had used several computers in the past and suspended all the accounts that ever shared those computers. Notice under Fleabay it makes no difference of int __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
