Re: [meteorite-list] Verish Birthday Party Photos
Hello Capt. Blood, Thanks for taking the time to post your images of our little gathering. It gives Moni and I another opportunity to thank everyone that attended our joint Birthday Party. We hope that the good times that we shared will become the impetus to resume the yearly Meteorite-Tektite Parties again. Past parties had been held in LA area in the previous decade. Here is a link to images of a prior gathering: http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/TektiteParty05.html http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/TektiteParty05.html Should add that the unidentified person in Michael's image http://michaelbloodmeteorites.com/BobCloserLook.jpg http://michaelbloodmeteorites.com/BobCloserLook.jpg is Michael Mulgrew, who is also from Southern California and is a very active, local meteorite-hunter, as is shown on his website: http://www.mikestang.com/bristolmnts412.htm http://www.mikestang.com/bristolmnts412.htm Hope we don't have to wait a whole year for the next gathering, Bob V. --- On Sat, 6/16/12, Michael Blood mlbl...@cox.net wrote: From: Michael Blood mlbl...@cox.net Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Verish Birthday Party Photos To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Saturday, June 16, 2012, 10:00 PM Hi All Today Angel and I made the trip up north about 35 miles to Escondido to attend a joint birthday party for Bob and Moni Verish, who were born within a week of one another(+/- 7 years). To our surprise and delight the party was also attended by 3 other members of the Southern California Meteorite Tektite Club: Paul and Janice Harris (of Meteorite Exchange) and the noted meteorite hunter, Richard Garcia (no relation to Ruben Garcia). Great stories of Sutter's Mill (Moni found a 17g+ specimen there) and Ruben brought his outstanding Holbrook find. Also on display were some other impressive specimens, including what was labeled as the main mass of Gold Basin, and a splendid thing it is, too. Thought you all might enjoy some of the photos: Best wishes, Michael Click on any Photo to ENLARGE http://michaelbloodmeteorites.com/VerishBDParty2012.html __ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Unclassified NEA Contributed by: Muhammad M. Shams http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] FOR SALE AD: On Ebay--NICE 25.4 g. Dimmitt Slice
HI All, Have a nice Texas DIMMITT slice for sale. Lots of visible metal in this one!! Ends tonight. Check it out. **FREE SHIPPING!!** http://www.ebay.com/itm/120931298728?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649. Thanks for looking!! Kirk.:-) __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Hunting Photos
For those who have not seen our photos, here is our Flickr account. Flickr.com/fislermeteorites Also, if anyone would like to meet up for day hunts or weekend hunts between now and August then email me at phx.e.f...@gmail.com for collaboration. I'm more than happy to arrange training hunts or private one on one hunts. We're doing a day hunt today North of Phoenix. Wish us luck. Sincerely, Erik Ben Fisler Sent from my iPhone __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Verish Birthday Party Photos
Michael, Bob, and list, Thanks for sharing the pictures, Michael. I had a great afternoon with everyone. Happy birthday again to Bob and Moni! The Meteorite-Tektite parties should definitely be resurrected! Too many good times are there for us all to not get together more often. Especially with the summer heat fast approaching, weekend jaunts into the Mojave are going to start dwindling off. Seems a perfect excuse for us all to gather under some air conditioning and talk about space rocks. Michael in so. Cal. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Michael Mulgrew mikest...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Verish bolidechaser at yahoo.com Mon Jun 18 02:32:10 EDT 2012 Hello Capt. Blood, Thanks for taking the time to post your images of our little gathering. It gives Moni and I another opportunity to thank everyone that attended our joint Birthday Party. We hope that the good times that we shared will become the impetus to resume the yearly Meteorite-Tektite Parties again. Past parties had been held in LA area in the previous decade. Here is a link to images of a prior gathering: http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/TektiteParty05.html http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/TektiteParty05.html Should add that the unidentified person in Michael's image http://michaelbloodmeteorites.com/BobCloserLook.jpg http://michaelbloodmeteorites.com/BobCloserLook.jpg is Michael Mulgrew, who is also from Southern California and is a very active, local meteorite-hunter, as is shown on his website: http://www.mikestang.com/bristolmnts412.htm http://www.mikestang.com/bristolmnts412.htm Hope we don't have to wait a whole year for the next gathering, Bob V. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario Meteor over 200 reports or Re: Upper Mid-Eastern USA Fireball June 14, 2012
This event occurred on June 14 at 9:51:30 PM EDT (June 15 01:51:30 UTC), lasted approximately 10 seconds, and was widely seen across the northern United States and southern Canada. Analyses of 5 all sky videos from the Southern Ontario Meteor Network were performed by NASA Meteoroid Environment Office and Western University's Meteor Physics Group, yielding the following trajectory: Start point: 79.573 W, 44.552 N at an altitude of 101.4 km Last detection: 82.317 W, 46.142 N at an altitude of 61.5 km Average speed: 28.3 +/- 0.5 km/s Radiant coordinates of RA 265.2, Dec -19.9 are within the anti-helion sporadic source. The meteor was moving too fast and was too high to produce meteorites on the ground. Orbit shows no resemblance to that of 2012 LZ1, which made a close approach to Earth on June 14. London, Ontario composite and video: http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/SOMN_ev_20120615_015131/cut_20120615_015131_02B.png http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/SOMN_ev_20120615_015131/cut_20120615_015131_02B.mov Collingwood, Ontario composite and video: http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/SOMN_ev_20120615_015131/cut_20120615_015130_05A.png http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/SOMN_ev_20120615_015131/cut_20120615_015130_05A.mov Regards, Bill Cooke NASA Meteoroid Environment Office Email: william.j.co...@nasa.gov Office: 256 544-9136 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] ESA Tests Self-Steering Rover in 'Mars' Desert
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Space_Engineering/SEM64M8X73H_0.html ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert European Space Agency 18 June 2012 ESA assembled a top engineering team, then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its course through Chile's Mars-like Atacama Desert. May's full-scale rover field test marked the final stage of a StarTiger project code-named Seeker. Standing for Space Technology Advancements by Resourceful, Targeted and Innovative Groups of Experts and Researchers, StarTiger involves a multidisciplinary team gathered at a single site, working against the clock to achieve a technology breakthrough. Our expert team met at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK, explained Gianfranco Visentin, head of ESA's Automation and Robotics section. Their challenge was to demonstrate how a planetary rover - equipped with state-of-the-art autonomous navigation and decision-making software - could traverse 6 km of Mars-like environment and come back where it started. Long-range rovers risk getting lost Mars rovers cannot be remotely driven. It takes radio signals up to 40 minutes to make a round trip between Mars and Earth. Instead, rovers are given instructions to carry out autonomously. ESA's ExoMars rover, due to land on Mars in 2018, will have state-of-the-art autonomy, added Gianfranco. However, it will not travel more than 150 m per individual Sol - a martian day - or much more than 3 km throughout its mission. The difficulty comes with follow-on missions, which will require daily traverses of five to ten times longer. With longer traverses the rover progressively loses its absolute localisation - sensing where it is. Lacking martian GPS, the rover can only determine how far it has moved relative to its starting point, but this 'dead reckoning' is still subject to errors, which build up into risky uncertainties. The Seeker team aimed at a less than 1% distance error, and being able to fix their position on a terrain map to 1 m accuracy. The rover acquired visual odometry systems to assess its distance moved, stereo-vision reconstruction to map its surroundings and advanced path-planning and obstacle avoidance systems. Desert testing Prototypes underwent indoor and outdoor testing. Then, in May, the Seeker team - including experts from SciSys UK, BAE Systems UK, Roke Manor UK, MDA-UK, the University of Oxford and Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes in France - took their rover to the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world, which was selected for its similarities to martian conditions. The European Southern Observatory's nearby Very Large Telescope was an additional advantage, Gianfranco added. The observatory kindly provided refuge for the cold and windy desert nights. For two weeks the team put the rover into action within a particularly Mars-like zone. Like anxious parents, the team watched the rover go out of sight, maintaining only radio surveillance. Their daily efforts culminated in the official trial, when the Seeker rover was programmed to perform a single 6 km loop. The whole day was needed as the rover moves at a maximum 0.9 km/h, Gianfranco recalled. But this was an unusual day. The usual desert winds counteracting the fierce heat of the Sun died away. The rover grew dangerously warm, and had to be stopped around midday. Then, when the wind finally picked up there wasn't enough time to complete the loop before sundown. We managed 5.1 km, somewhat short of our 6 km goal, but an excellent result considering the variety of terrain crossed, changes in lighting conditions experienced and most of all this was ESA's first large scale rover test - though definitely not our last. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hunting Photos
Erik, your photo of Red Dry Lake says it all. Even if you never find a meteorite (Unlikely) the Narcotic Bliss one feels on the lakes is worth it all. Awesome photo! -Paul Gessler -Original Message- From: Erik Fisler Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:10 AM To: Meteorite List Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hunting Photos For those who have not seen our photos, here is our Flickr account. Flickr.com/fislermeteorites Also, if anyone would like to meet up for day hunts or weekend hunts between now and August then email me at phx.e.f...@gmail.com for collaboration. I'm more than happy to arrange training hunts or private one on one hunts. We're doing a day hunt today North of Phoenix. Wish us luck. Sincerely, Erik Ben Fisler __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Des Plaines,IL impact crater
Hello all, Does anyone know if there are any exposures of impact related rock in Des Plains Illinois as a result of the impact 280 m.y? Just curious. Thanks! Brandon D. IMCA#9312 Chicago, IL __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
