Re: [meteorite-list] Verish Birthday Party Photos

2012-06-18 Thread Robert Verish
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
 
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2012-06-18 Thread valparint
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Unclassified NEA

Contributed by: Muhammad M. Shams

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp
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[meteorite-list] FOR SALE AD: On Ebay--NICE 25.4 g. Dimmitt Slice

2012-06-18 Thread Becky and Kirk

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.:-)

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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Hunting Photos

2012-06-18 Thread Erik Fisler
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
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Re: [meteorite-list] Verish Birthday Party Photos

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Mulgrew
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.
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Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario Meteor over 200 reports or Re: Upper Mid-Eastern USA Fireball June 14, 2012

2012-06-18 Thread cookewj
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 
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[meteorite-list] ESA Tests Self-Steering Rover in 'Mars' Desert

2012-06-18 Thread Ron Baalke

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.

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Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hunting Photos

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Gessler

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

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[meteorite-list] Des Plaines,IL impact crater

2012-06-18 Thread B
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
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