[meteorite-list] yet another small shallow air burst crater in West Texas: Charles Porter: Rich Murray 2012.08.29
yet another small shallow air burst crater in West Texas: Charles Porter: Rich Murray 2012.08.29 32° 15' 09.90 N 100° 48' 04.09 W 32.252750 -100.801136 Hello Chares Porter, Probably a typical shallow crater from atomic bomb energy level air burst of 35 km/sec ice fragment coming in at about 30 degrees angle from Taurid complex comet fragment swarm in 3.5 year solar orbit 13 Ka years ago -- Dennis Cox has hundreds of such images from Google Earth, mainly West Texas to New Mexico -- at a few of them in Vaughn, NM, I found in 2011 characteristic sharp broken fragments with surface glazes and melts -- many more around Santa Fe, NM. http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/more-new-mexico-craters/ within mutual service, Rich Murray 505-819-7388 cell Imperial Beach, CA 91932 .2 km wide, .672 km center elevation .675 km elevation at SR 208 .5 km to NE charles porter cept...@earthlink.net 11:47 PM (23 hours ago) 2012.08.28 Rich, I was using Google Earth and was browsing along SR 208 to the SE of Colorado City TX and happened to see a feature at: 32° 15' 09.90 N 100° 48' 04.09 W Do you have any idea as to what might have caused it? I do know that the outcropping beds are Triassic. Charlie Porter __ 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] Alberta Very Bright Meteor 30AUG2012
Dear List, Yet another large meteor: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/08/mbiq-indicates-alberta-canada-meteor.html Canadian all sky check your video. Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ 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] Italia Bolide Meteor 30AUG2012
Dear List, 30AUG2012 and the past few days have been busy! Yet ANOTHER large event! http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/08/breaking-news-mbiq-detects-italia.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ 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] AD Meteorite sale...
I need to sell fairly quickly.. NWA 6550 (rare LL3.7) 78.3g end cut - $400; 17.1g crusted fragment of NWA CO3 - $250; White Court iron with papers, 9.45g - $75; 2 Park Forest hammer riker displays - $45 (from Hupé Collection) and $35 (one of the sets made by Greg Catterton). $10 shipping for the PF rikers, or take 'em all for $800 free shipping. NWA 6550 LL3.7 http://s6.postimage.org/pm3dwitw1/NWA_6550.jpg NWA CO3 http://s6.postimage.org/4dppf3ff5/NWA_CO3.jpg Park Forest sets http://s6.postimage.org/ankz23ett/Park_Forest_displays1.jpg http://s6.postimage.org/mdywjh7m9/Park_Forest_displays2.jpg White Court http://s6.postimage.org/r3ou82ymp/White_Court.jpg http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/Images/WC-9.45a.jpg http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/Images/WC-9.45b.jpg Please contact me offlist if interested or serious about purchasing these... Thanks --- -Melanie MetMel - avid meteorite collector/enthusiast from Canada! I eat, sleep and breath meteorites 24/7. __ 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: DAG 400 Contributed by: Jessica and Paul 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] NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-273 NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science Jet Propulsion Laboratory August 31, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) yesterday, while the two spacecraft were 19 miles (30 kilometers) above the moon's Ocean of Storms, the Lunar Gravity Ranging System -- the mission's sole science instrument aboard both GRAIL twins -- was energized. The data collected during GRAIL's primary mission team are currently being analyzed and hold the promise of producing a gravity field map of extraordinary quality and resolution, said Maria Zuber, principal investigator for GRAIL from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Mapping at a substantially lower altitude during the extended mission, and getting an even more intimate glimpse of our nearest celestial neighbor, provides the unique opportunity to globally map the shallow crust of a planetary body beyond Earth. The science phase of GRAIL's extended mission runs from Aug. 30 to Dec. 3. Its goals are to take an even closer look at the moon's gravity field, deriving the gravitational influence of surface and subsurface features as small as simple craters, mountains and rilles. To achieve this unprecedented resolution, GRAIL mission planners are halving the operating altitude - flying at the lowest altitude that can be safely maintained. During the prime mission, which stretched from March 1 to May 29, the two GRAIL spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow, orbited at an average altitude of 34 miles (55 kilometers). The average orbital altitude during extended mission will be 14 miles (23 kilometers), which places the GRAIL twins within five miles (eight kilometers) of some of the moon's higher surface features. Ebb and Flow, and our mission operations team, are both doing great, which is certainly notable considering all the milestones and challenges they have experienced, said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The twins have endured the lunar eclipse of June 4, 2012, and 26 rocket burns since arriving in lunar orbit at the beginning of the year. Down here in our control room, with all the planning and mission operations we have been doing, it feels as though we've been riding right along with them. Of course, they have the better view. Science data are collected when the Lunar Gravity Ranging System transmit radio signals between the two spacecraft, precisely defining the rate of change of distance between Ebb and Flow. The distance between the twins change slightly as they fly over areas of greater and lesser gravity caused by visible features, such as mountains and craters, and by masses hidden beneath the lunar surface. Mission scientists calculated that even as the last data were downlinked, four of the mission's six principal science measurement goals had already been achieved. The objective of the GRAIL mission is to generate the most accurate gravity map of the moon and from that derive the internal structure and evolution of Earth's natural satellite. JPL manages the GRAIL mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The GRAIL mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft. For more information about GRAIL, visit: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/grail/ DC Agle 818-393-9011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. a...@jpl.nasa.gov Caroline McCall 617-253-1682 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge cmca...@mit.edu 2012-273 __ 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] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: August 27-31, 2012
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES August 27-31, 2012 o Lava Channels (27 August 2012) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5968 o Daedalia Planum (28 August 2012) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5969 o Olympia Undae (29 August 2012) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5970 o Ascraeus Mons (30 August 2012) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5971 o Sand Sheet (31 August 2012) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5972 All of the THEMIS images are archived here: http://themis.asu.edu/latest.html NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in co.oration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. __ 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] smooth blue-black melt glaze on 2 sharp red-brown nearby surface rocks under left side of Mount Sharp in Curiosity Mars panorama? Rich Murray 2012.08.31
smooth blue-black melt glaze on 2 sharp red-brown nearby surface rocks under left side of Mount Sharp in Curiosity Mars panorama? Rich Murray 2012.08.31 http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/curiosity-first-color-360.html high resolution adjustable view -- compare with surface glazes on sharp rocks in California and New Mexico: pertinent features near Campbell Mountain, studied by Dennis Cox, by his house in Fresno, CA: Rich Murray 2011.06.27 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.htm Monday, June 27, 2011 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/87 It is easy in a few hours to locate pertinent features to the N, E, SE, and S of Campbell Mountain, studied by Dennis Cox, a few miles NE of his house in Fresno, CA. Maybe some of us can visit for a weekend and drive around, as many intriguing sites can be found by roads. http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/the-planetary-scaring-of-the-younger-dryas-impact-event/california-melt/ https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=5d6b9f6c30c6fe9fsc=photosid=5D6B9F6C30C6FE9F%21\1348 19 images of Fresno mountains and rock samples Dennis Cox blog, plain text, with images of samples of magnetic black glaze on melt rocks from 13 Ka ice comet fragment extreme plasma storm geoablation in Fresno, California: Rich Murray 2010.07.02 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.htm Friday, July 2, 2010 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/53 photo of typical air burst geoablation glaze on hard bedrock at top of Mount Helix park, E San Diego: Rich Murray 2012.03.15 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/03/redbrown-glaze-on-hard-crystalline.html http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/03/photo-of-typical-air-burst-geoablation.html http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/98 10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, tour of 50 photos 1 MB size each via DropBox: Rich Murray 2011.07.28 2011.08.03 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/10-m-broken-rock-hill-with-black-glazes.html http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/35479730-106085926-1865-km-el-top-10-m.html photos 3-5 of 50 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/92 Rich Murray, Imperial Beach, CA 91932 rmfor...@gmail.com 505-819-7388 cell 619-623-3468 home __ 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] Massive Daytime Event Detected Over Texas 31AUG2012
Dear list, A highly unusual Forward Scatter Radio signal was detected over Central Texas at 19:31:24 ut 31AUG2012. This signal indicates (to me) that an object of a very large size and duration entered the atmosphere. http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/09/massive-daytime-bolide-meteor-event.html PLEASE IF someone can help me convert the MP3 file into an MPEG3 or MPEG4 I will add the audio portion which is amazing! I will send the MP3 file offlist to the helper. Thank you! Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ 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] comayagua-honduras-meteorite-hits-house
Dear List, Another recent meteorite fall! News story and video. comayagua-honduras-meteorite-hits-house http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/09/comayagua-honduras-meteorite-hits-house.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ 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
