Re: [meteorite-list] My first outreach to a 7th grade class iscoming up
Agreed! That's my favorite! Impressive, inspiring, and just plain awesome. Linton - Original Message - From: "Carl 's" To: Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My first outreach to a 7th grade class iscoming up Hi Mendy, I've always thought Jeff Kuyken's The Wonder of Meteorites would make an excellent intro for any outreach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5oknQjqQuw Carl2 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4158 / Virus Database: 3629/6818 - Release Date: 11/07/13 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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Re: [meteorite-list] My first outreach to a 7th grade class is coming up
Hi Mendy, I've always thought Jeff Kuyken's The Wonder of Meteorites would make an excellent intro for any outreach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5oknQjqQuw Carl2 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] My first outreach to a 7th grade class is coming up
You realize that if you manage to reproduce a "somewhat realistic volume" of the Chelyabinsk shock wave (which is only sound heard) you will blow out all the windows and ceiling tiles in the room. That would certainly be impressive to a bunch of middle schoolers! But you might not get invited back. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 11/8/2013 5:06 PM, Mendy Ouzillou wrote: Jacob, my 12 year old son, has a class called "Weird Science" and asked me to present to his class about meteorites. I will be presenting to his class this coming Tuesday. As the opening to my presentation, I want to blast at somewhat realistic volume a recording of a meteor passing overhead. I believe there were some ear-witness accounts of Chelyabinsk and thought someone could help me find a high quality recording of it or any other. Also, if anyone has a slide deck they would be willing to share, please send to me. Adam Bates was kind enough to let me have his which is based on the IMCA deck, but I would like to see what others have done. When I have finalized mine, I would be happy to return the favor. Regards, Mendy __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] My first outreach to a 7th grade class is coming up
Hi Mendy, Here is a repost copy of something I posted back in February right after the fall. It has links to many videos with sound. One of them has a really loud scream after the fragmentation events. Maybe you will find these useful. Good luck with the event. Best regards, MikeG --- I am combing through hundreds of YouTube videos to find the best examples of footage from the recent Russian Chebarkul meteorite fall. My selection criteria are : 1) must be original, unedited footage with few/no cuts or mods. 2) no compilations or "best of" videos. 3) no soundtracks or silly distracting music. 4) preferably has sound to hear the explosions, or if no sound, then a good clear view of the bolide/trail. I will be posting these videos today and tonight as I finish going through them. Here are some I have selected so far with notes for each. Chebarkul Video #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPclE7RwFY This one does not clearly show the bolide or trail at first. What it does show is the viewpoint of a man holding a video camera as he reacts to the explosions. He is standing under a large wall of glass panes and many of them shatter while he is taping. He ducks to avoid the falling glass and keeps taping the entire time. He then runs down the street to record the aftermath and confusion. He then tapes the bolide trail in the sky. This is one of the best examples of the event that I have screened so far out of many dozens of videos. It meets almost all of the stated criteria in spades. Chebarkul Video #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCawTYPtehk This video only shows the bolide and does not record the explosions. However, it provides a very clear view of the fireball as it travels the entire length of the sky. The viewpoint is a dashboard camera in a car sitting at a traffic light. Very good vantage point and a much better quality video than most of the other dashboard cams I have seen so far. Chebarkul Video #3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 This is a short but sweet video, so to speak. It is less than 20 seconds. It shows someone who walked outside to film the bolide trail in the sky. The person holding the camera is then startled by the first explosion, which is very loud. Shaken, the person continues to film, until the second explosion is heard - at which point, the person becomes freaked out, runs for cover, and shuts off the camera. This one lets you hear the first two fragmentation events very clearly and you get to experience the surprise and panic of the camera-person, albeit briefly. Chebarkul Video #4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efvP-RRuJuA This video I call "poor poopie" - because there is a startled dog involved. This one is a surveillance camera overlooking (downwards) a parking lot outside an apartment building. There is a few minutes of boring mundane footage showing pedestrians walking through or milling about. Just before the 01-25 mark (1 minute, 25 seconds), a small dog wanders into the frame with a man. While watching the bolide trail in the sky, the first explosion happens. What is interesting is how nonplussed the people are in reaction to this sudden unexpected explosion. It hardly startles the people, but the dog is clearly scared. Then, the second explosion happens and the dog gets spooked again. Afterwards, there are a few boring minutes of the people gawking around and dog appears to be OK. I selected this one because - the novelty of the dog and how it reacts in relation to the people and because it shows how casual the Russians are when presented with sudden loud explosions - apparently, it's nothing to get too excited about when the sky explodes without warning. LOL. If you don't want to get bored with this one, focus around the 1-minute and 25-second mark. Chebarkul Video #5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7mLUIDGqmw This video is part 2 of a 5-part video. This part meets almost all of the selection criteria. You see and hear the explosions, the immediate reaction, and the confusion afterwards. You get a good feel for the confusion and chaos afterwards. Keep in mind, it is BELOW ZERO TEMPS outside during this event, and people run outside without coats, gloves, or other clothing. They run about, gawk, and discuss what just happened. If any of my friends can translate some of the Russian dialogue in this video, I would greatly appreciate it. What are they saying exactly? Do they think it was an attack? A meteor? A bomb? Chebarkul Video #6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9HkE2RztYY This video is short, but interesting. It appears to be shot from inside a hotel room or apartment. There is a man and a woman, and one of them is standing next to the window, looking outside at the bolide trail in the sky. Suddenly, the first sonic boom rocks the room and the woman lets out a blood-curdling scream in surprise. I selected this video because it is one of the few examples of a Russian citizen reac
[meteorite-list] Curiosity Rover Performs Warm Reset
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-325 Curiosity Performs Warm Reset Jet Propulsion Laboratory November 08, 2013 Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report NASA's Mars rover Curiosity experienced an unexpected software reboot (also known as a warm reset) yesterday (11/7/13) during a communications pass as it was sending engineering and science data to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, for later downlinking to Earth. This computer reset occurred about four-and-half hours after new flight software had been temporarily loaded into the rover's memory. At the time the event occurred, Curiosity was in the middle of a scheduled, week-long flight software update and checkout activity. "Telemetry later downlinked from the rover indicates the warm reset was performed as would be expected in response to an unanticipated event," said Jim Erickson, project manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. A warm reset is executed by flight software when it identifies a problem with one of its operations. The reset restarts the flight software into its initial state. Since the reset, the rover has been performing operations and communications as expected. The team is currently working toward understanding the cause of the reset and returning the rover to normal operations. This is the first time that Curiosity has executed a fault-related warm reset during its 16-plus months of Mars surface operations. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to assess whether areas inside Gale Crater ever offered a habitable environment for microbes. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ . You can follow the mission on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity . DC Agle 818-393-9011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. a...@jpl.nasa.gov 2013-325 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] My first outreach to a 7th grade class is coming up
Jacob, my 12 year old son, has a class called "Weird Science" and asked me to present to his class about meteorites. I will be presenting to his class this coming Tuesday. As the opening to my presentation, I want to blast at somewhat realistic volume a recording of a meteor passing overhead. I believe there were some ear-witness accounts of Chelyabinsk and thought someone could help me find a high quality recording of it or any other. Also, if anyone has a slide deck they would be willing to share, please send to me. Adam Bates was kind enough to let me have his which is based on the IMCA deck, but I would like to see what others have done. When I have finalized mine, I would be happy to return the favor. Regards, Mendy __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Prolific NASA Mars Orbiter Passes Big Data Milestone (MRO)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-324 Prolific NASA Mars Orbiter Passes Big Data Milestone Jet Propulsion Laboratory November 08, 2013 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has overhauled understanding of the Red Planet since 2006, has passed 200 terabits in the amount of science data returned. The data returned by the mission alone is more than three times the total data returned via NASA's Deep Space Network for all the other missions managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., over the past 10 years. While the 200 terabits number includes all the data this orbiter has relayed to Earth from robots on the surface of Mars, about 99.9 percent of the volume has come from the six science instruments aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The 200 terabits are equivalent to the data volume in three nonstop months of high-definition video. The number does not include the engineering data that specialists operating the orbiter from JPL and Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, use for monitoring its health and performance. The spacecraft pours data Earthward using a dish antenna 10 feet (3 meters) across and a transmitter powered by 215 square feet (20 square meters) of solar cells. Multiple sessions each day with giant dish antennas of the Deep Space Network in California, Spain and Australia enable Earth to receive such a torrent of data from the orbiter. "The sheer volume is impressive, but of course what's most important is what we are learning about our neighboring planet," said JPL's Rich Zurek, the project scientist for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The orbiter's instruments have examined Mars from subsurface to atmosphere in unprecedented detail. One instrument has provided images revealing features as small as a desk in surface areas equivalent to one-third of the United States (1.92 percent of Mars' surface). Another has covered areas equivalent to about 82 percent of Earth's land area (83.6 percent of Mars' surface), with resolution showing features smaller than a tennis court. These cameras have viewed many areas repeatedly, providing three-dimensional information from stereo and revealing several types of landscape changes over time. Other instruments identify surface minerals, probe underground layers, examine cross-sections of the atmosphere and track weather globally. "The mission has taught us about three very different periods of Mars history," Zurek said. Its observations of the heavily cratered terrains of Mars, the oldest on the planet, show that different types of ancient watery environments formed water-related minerals. Some of these would have been more favorable for life than others. In more recent times, water appears to have cycled as a gas between polar ice deposits and lower-latitude deposits of ice and snow. Extensive layering in ice or rock probably took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to form. The present climate is also dynamic, with volatile carbon dioxide and, possibly, flows of briny water forming dark streaks that are observed to appear in the warmest seasons and places and fade in colder weather. "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shown that Mars is still an active planet, with changes such as new craters, avalanches and dust storms," Zurek said. "Mars is a partially frozen world, but not frozen in time." Each of the 200 trillion bits of science data from the orbiter has followed a complex path, aided by sophisticated software to make it feasible for a small team to handle tens of billions of new bits daily and get the data products to the appropriate scientists. Data gathered by the orbiter's instruments and relayed from rovers are recorded onto the orbiter's central memory. Each orbit around Mars takes the spacecraft about two hours. For part of each orbit, Mars itself usually blocks the communication path to Earth. When Earth is in view, a Deep Space Network antenna on whichever part of Earth is turned toward Mars at that hour can be listening. Complex preparations coordinate scheduling the use of the network's antennas by all deep-space missions -- 32 of them this month. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter typically gets several sessions every day. "The Deep Space Network collects the incoming data into 30-minute chunks," said Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter software engineer Bryan Allen, of JPL. "At that point, it doesn't matter which products are in it -- just a big pile of bits." The chunks of mixed data from the antenna stations in California, Spain and Australia come to JPL, where software sorts it into specific products, such as an image from a camera, measurements from a scan of the atmosphere, radar readings from the subsurface sounder, or data from a rover. Another process at JPL determines which products to send where -- such as to a mineral-mapping team in Maryland, a camera team in Arizona, a radar team in Italy. On a typical recent day, the system sorted 58 billion bits from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall Map for CA 06NOV2013 posted
If anyone has reined this better please email me offlist; thank you! Meteorite Fall Map for CA 06NOV2013 posted http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2013/11/mbiq-detects-ca-meteor-06nov2013.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: November 4-8, 2013
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES November 4-8, 2013 o Dark Slope Streaks (04 November 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20131104a o Shalbatana Vallis (05 November 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20131105a o Landslide (06 November 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20131106a o Arda Valles (07 November 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20131107a o Gullies (08 November 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20131108a 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.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] MAVEN Affixed to Atlas 5 Rocket for Nov 18 Launch
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av038/131108vif/ MAVEN affixed to Atlas 5 rocket for Nov. 18 launch BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW November 8, 2013 NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, the centerpiece of a $671 million mission to study the atmosphere of Mars, reached its penultimate stop before liftoff when technicians transported the delicate probe to the Atlas 5 rocket's seaside launch complex Friday. The milestone move marks one of the final visible steps ahead of the mission's launch, which is on schedule for Nov. 18 at 1:28 p.m. EST (1828 GMT). Technicians began transferring the 2.8-ton spacecraft from its clean room at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at 12:33 a.m. EST aboard a specialized transporter. The road trip across Kennedy Space Center took about two-and-a-half hours, and NASA says MAVEN arrived at the launch pad at 2:59 a.m. EST. MAVEN was already enshrouded inside the nose cone of its Atlas 5 rocket. The cone-shaped fairing shields the payload from contaminants and airflow during ground preparations and the first phase of launch. United Launch Alliance hooked up a crane to the top of MAVEN's payload fairing and hoisted the spacecraft inside the Atlas 5's Vertical Integration Facility, and technicians completed the initial attachment of MAVEN to its launch vehicle at 7:45 a.m. EST, according to NASA. Mechanical and electrical connections were expected to be completed later Friday, followed by a spacecraft power-up Saturday to check MAVEN's health after the trip across Kennedy Space Center. An integrated systems test is on tap for Monday to ensure MAVEN and the 189-foot-tall Atlas 5 are working together, according to NASA. Friday's movement to the launch pad was delayed a day to repair a faulty purge system inside the Atlas 5's integration building. The Atlas 5 has finished its standalone testing after ULA workers propped up the rocket's first stage booster and Centaur stage inside the 29-story VIF in early October. The ULA launch team put the Atlas 5 through a full countdown rehearsal Oct. 29, including loading of the rocket with kerosene, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants. The Atlas 5 assigned to MAVEN's launch features no solid rocket boosters, a four-meter payload fairing and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. This is known as the "401" configuration in the Atlas 5 nomenclature. The two-stage rocket will be rolled out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 at 10 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, making the 1,800-foot trip from its assembly building in about a half-hour under the power of specially-designed "trackmobiles" to push the launcher and its mobile platform to the pad. The day before launch, Nov. 17, is a day off for launch crews before the countdown begins at dawn Nov. 18, leading to the opening of a two-hour launch window at 1:28 p.m. EST. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, mission will separate from the Atlas 5's Centaur upper stage about 52 minutes after liftoff, deploy its electricity-generating solar panels and begin its interplanetary cruise to Mars. Arrival in orbit around the red planet is set for Sept. 22, 2014, if the launch occurs Nov. 18. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] ad - gorgeous iron meteorite offered for sale
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[meteorite-list] AD- Auction ending with two new specimens listed
List: I have several items up for auction ending this weekend at good prices. I included some slices of a new eucrite (NWA 8048) and some part-slices of a new ureilite (NWA 8049). OFFERS ARE WELCOMED, send me a message! http://tinyurl.com/AJmetcltrEBAY Regards, Aras www.AJmetcltr.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] ExoMars Lander Module Named Schiaparelli
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars_lander_module_named_Schiaparelli ExoMars Lander Module Named Schiaparelli European Space Agency 8 November 2013 The entry, descent and landing demonstrator module that will fly on the 2016 ExoMars mission has been named "Schiaparelli" in honour of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who famously mapped the Red Planet's surface features in the 19th century. ExoMars is a joint endeavour between ESA and Russia's Roscosmos space agency, and comprises two missions that will be launched to Mars in 2016 and 2018. The Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli make up the 2016 mission, while the ExoMars rover, with its carrier and surface platform, will be launched in 2018. Working together, the orbiter and rover will search the planet for signs of life, past and present. Schiaparelli will prove key technologies for Europe with a controlled landing on Mars. It will enter the atmosphere at 21 000 km/h and use parachutes and thrusters to brake to less than 15 km/h before landing less than eight minutes later. The module will collect data on the atmosphere during the entry and descent, and its instruments will perform local environment measurements at the landing site, which is in a region of plains known as Meridiani Planum. The 2016 mission will arrive at Mars during the period when seasonal global dust storms are most likely. Thus the measurements obtained during landing will provide important information for improving models of the atmosphere and the mechanisms that trigger dust storms "Considering the importance of Giovanni Schiaparelli's pioneering observations of Mars, it was an easy decision to give his name to the ExoMars module that is paving the way to the further exploration of the Red Planet," says Alvaro Gimenez, ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration. The name was suggested by a group of Italian scientists to the president of the Italian space agency, who then proposed it to ESA. Italy is the largest European contributor to the ExoMars program me. Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835-1910) was an accomplished scientist who dedicated much of his career to cataloguing and naming the surface features of Mars. During the "Great Opposition" of 1877, when Mars was relatively close to Earth, he surveyed the planet by eye through a telescope and sketched a network of linear features that he saw running across the surface. He assumed that these were natural water-filled channels and used the equivalent Italian word, "canali". This term was often translated into English as "canals", leading to considerable speculation about whether a network of artificial watercourses had been excavated by an intelligent civilisation on Mars, perhaps for irrigation purposes. However, many of the linear features seen and drawn by Schiaparelli and others, most notably Percival Lowell, were argued to be optical illusions resulting from observations by eye. Later photographic images of Mars did not show them and the arrival of the first space probes at the planet in the 1960s confirmed it to be the cold, dry place we know today. Nevertheless, as a result of further space exploration, including ESA's Mars Express, we also now know that, deep in the Red Planet's past, water did flow freely in naturally-formed rivers and valleys, in some way vindicating Schiaparelli's original hypothesis. He also set a precedent for documenting features on planets, and many of the names he proposed for the major landscapes of Mars are still in use today. Schiaparelli is also well known for working out that regular annual meteor showers emanating from specific regions of the sky are due to Earth's orbit intercepting trails of debris left by comets as they make their way through the Solar System. He also made accurate measurements of the rotation periods of Venus and Mercury and was a strong believer in the importance of science popularisation: he wrote books on astronomy and often gave public lectures. "Schiaparelli's dedication to planetary science and to the communication of science was recognised worldwide and, as such, we want to celebrate his achievements by naming a key part of the ExoMars mission after him," says Rolf de Groot, Head of the Coordination Office for the Robotic Exploration Programme at ESA. He adds: "The Schiaparelli module will not only provide Europe with the technology for landing on Mars, but will also give us a taste of the atmosphere and insight into the local environment at a new location on the planet's surface - exploration that Giovanni Schiaparelli could only have dreamed of over 135 years ago when he first started sketching the Red Planet." For further information, please contact: Markus Bauer ESA Science and Robotic Exploration Communication Officer Tel: +31 71 565 6799 Mob: +31 61 594 3 954 Email: markus.ba...@esa.int Rolf de Groot Head of the Coordination Office for the Roboti
[meteorite-list] NASA Sets MAVEN/Atlas V Launch Events Coverage
November 8, 2013 Joshua Buck/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100/202-358-1726 jb...@nasa.gov / dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.dil...@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jo...@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY M13-171 NASA Sets MAVEN/Atlas V Launch Events Coverage NASA's next Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), is set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket Monday, Nov. 18. The two-hour launch window extends from 1:28 p.m. to 3:28 p.m. EST. Liftoff will occur from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41. Launch commentary coverage and prelaunch media briefings, will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website. MAVEN is the second mission under NASA's Mars Scout Program. It will take critical measurements of the Martian upper atmosphere to help scientists understand climate change over the Red Planet's history. MAVEN is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. It will orbit the planet in an elliptical orbit that allows it to pass through and sample the entire upper atmosphere on every orbit. The spacecraft will investigate how the loss of Mars' atmosphere to space determined the history of water on the surface. NASA will host a number of pre- and post-launch activities at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including: Friday, Nov. 15 * 1 p.m. - Prelaunch news conference on NASA TV * 2 p.m. - MAVEN Spanish media briefing on NASA TV Saturday, Nov. 16 * 9 a.m. - Atlas V launch vehicle rollout transportation departs the Kennedy Press Site parking lot at 9 a.m. (not on NASA TV) * 1:30 p.m. - Remote camera placement at Space Launch Complex 41 transportation departs the Kennedy Press Site parking lot at 1:30 p.m. (not on NASA TV). * 2 p.m. - MAVEN NASA Social on NASA TV Sunday, Nov. 17 * 9 a.m. - PhoneSat 2 overview media availability at Kennedy's Press Site (not on NASA TV) * 10 a.m. - MAVEN mission science briefing on NASA TV * 11:30 a.m. - "The Path Toward Humans to Mars" briefing on NASA TV Monday, Nov. 18 * 11 a.m. - Live prelaunch commentary begins on NASA TVÂ * Post-launch news conference on NASA TV targeted for about 2 1/2 hours after launch Media who want to cover the MAVEN briefings and launch in person must apply for credentials at: https://media.ksc.nasa.gov/ U.S. media requests must be received no later than Tuesday, Nov. 12. The deadline for foreign media has passed. Media may obtain access badges at the Gate 2 Press Accreditation Office. For all media, two forms of government-issued identification are required to receive Kennedy credentials. At least one form must be a government-issued photo identification, such as a passport or driver's license. For further information about accreditation, contact Jennifer Horner at 321-867-6598 or 321-867-2468. NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management. United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colo., is the provider of the Atlas V launch service. Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colo., built the spacecraft and is responsible for mission operations after launch. MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. The university provided science instruments and leads science operations, as well as education and public outreach, for the mission. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the project and provided two of the science instruments for the mission. The University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory also provided science instruments for the mission. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., provides navigation support, Deep Space Network support and Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations. For the latest information about all of MAVEN's media opportunities, visit: http://go.nasa.gov/17cP2bZ For more information about MAVEN's mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/maven -end- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] grains of sand
>Where did this (factoid) >originate... Hi Paul, Historically, I suppose, most likely from Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel and Giovanni Schiaparelli. Bessel published in 1836 a theory on the physical nature of comets, postulating that their tails must consist of dust, expelled from the comet and driven away by a repulsive force by the sun; and Schiaparelli established in 1867 in his "Note e riflessioni intorno alla teoria astronomica delle stelle cadenti" the connection between four annual meteor streams and four comets, in demonstrating that they share the same orbits. Best! Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Paul Gessler Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. November 2013 04:42 An: meteorite-list Betreff: [meteorite-list] grains of sand Was wondering about the statement that shooting stars we see are no bigger than grains of sand??? I here it used all the time and haven't really given it any thought. I don't buy it! I don't think a grain of sand would be able to generate enough light to be visible from earth? Has anyone actually measured these grains of sand? If so how was it done. Where did this (factoid) originate and is there any validity to it? I could see gravel sized debris producing what we see but not sand and smaller. Any one care to comment? Paul Gessler __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] California Meteor/s 07NOV2013
List, California Meteor/s 07NOV2013 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2013/11/ca-meteor-07nov2013.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
