[meteorite-list] AD - Ebay Auctions NWA 1054, 1052, 1701 etc...

2014-03-26 Thread M come Meteorite
I have upload some auctions, two many important of NWA 1054 - 1052 SEM sections 
used for new analysis for Melliniite mineral

http://www.ebay.com/usr/mcomemeteorite

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[meteorite-list] Happy Anniversary Park Forest

2014-03-26 Thread Galactic Stone & Ironworks
I am surprised that nobody mentioned the anniversary of the Park
Forest meteorite fall on March 26, 2003.

Happy Anniversary Park Forest.  :)


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Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need yourinvolvement

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Bross

Hello Pierre Marie,

Glad for you
and will be looking at your book when available
Maybe also a meet in Ensisheim, if I can make it this year

Cheers
MB

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From: "Pelé Pierre-Marie" 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:00 PM
To: "Michael Bross" ; "Martin Goff" 


Cc: "MeteoriteList" 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need 
yourinvolvement



Hello Michael,

thanks for this kind message.  I had found a bilingual reader for my book 
before I read your message.


I hope you'll enjoy my book when it's available this summer.

Kind regards

Pierre-Marie Pelé
Meteor-Center
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche
http://www.meteor-center.com
IMCA 3360


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De : Michael Bross 
À : Martin Goff ; Pierre-Marie Pelé 


Cc : MeteoriteList 
Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 21h53
Objet : Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need 
yourinvolvement


I could help
I am French and lived many years in NY

Cheers
MB

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From: "Martin Goff" 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:39 PM
To: "Pierre-Marie Pelé" 
Cc: "MeteoriteList" 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need
yourinvolvement


Hi Pierre,

As i mentioned in my previous email to you i cant wait to get my hands
on your translated book. I of course have your original French version
which i use as my Bible where French meteorites are concerned but an
English version would be superb :-) Please count me as 1st in the
queue!

I will compile a list of french meteorite specimens in my collection
and forward them on to you. I sent you a list previously but will send
an updated list in the next week.

Although I am half French and can more than get by when reading I am
not good enough to be able to proofread the translation unfortunately
otherwise i would gladly volunteer my services :-)

Cheers

Martin


On 26 Mar 2014 19:11, "Pelé Pierre-Marie" 
wrote:


Hello,

I'm working on the translation of my book about french meteorites.  The
new book will be entitled "Encyclopedia of French Meteorites".

I would like to add to each meteorite file, the repository of specimens
in museums and private collections.

So, if you own french meteorites, I would be glad to add in my book your
inventory.

Simply send me for each meteorite :
- name of the meteorite
- total mass you have

I hope to publish the book in june 2014.

I'm also searching for someone who is bilingual in french and english to
read the french version and english version and to correct all mistakes.
It's a hard work (150 pages).  The proofreader would have as a gift a
signed english book and 500$ of meteorites to choose from my website.

Thanks a lot for your help

Pierre-Marie Pelé
Meteor-Center
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche
http://www.meteor-center.com
IMCA 3360
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Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need your involvement

2014-03-26 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Thanks Martin, 

you're right, many museums and universities sent me their inventory for my book 
in french.  I'm sure they can send to me an updated version of their listing.

I'll also contact other meteorite forums.

Kind regards
 
Pierre-Marie Pelé 
Meteor-Center 
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche 
http://www.meteor-center.com 
IMCA 3360


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De : Martin Goff 
À : Pelé Pierre-Marie 
Cc : MeteoriteList 
Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 21h52
Objet : Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need your 
involvement

My opinion would be that yes, i think the repository information is
very useful although i completely understand that it would never be
complete. I see it as a general snapshot of specimens out there. I
would imagine most museums and university collections would be happy
to provide that info (or am i wrong in saying that?) Or even that that
info is readily available in catalogues etc. regards to provate
collectors i would have thought that most folk would again be happy to
provide that info, unless people would not want their collection
details to be made public in such a forum as a printed book. My guess
would be that those would be in the minority.

So i would really welcome the reposity info as part of the book and
would say please do include it. i am sure a few repeat posts here and
on facebook forums and other forums such as BIMS and the French
meteorite forum, nugget shooters, club space rock etc would make the
request highly visible and mean you get lots of responses.

As most French meteorites are quite rare and hard (expensive) to get
hold of i think these sort of reposity lists are a very useful
snapshot whereas with more commonly held meteorites they would be much
less useful and indeed too difficult to do due to the vast number of
individual specimens ou there.

My 2 cents anyway :-)

Cheers

Martin


On 26/03/2014, Pelé Pierre-Marie  wrote:
> Thanks for your kind message Martin.  I think I found a bilingual reader in
> the meteorite community just after I sent my message on the MetList.
>
> I don't know how to manage the repository lists,  is it better to have none
> or incomplete lists in a book ?  I don't know.
>
> Pierre-Marie Pelé
> Meteor-Center
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Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need yourinvolvement

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Bross

I could help
I am French and lived many years in NY

Cheers
MB

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From: "Martin Goff" 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:39 PM
To: "Pierre-Marie Pelé" 
Cc: "MeteoriteList" 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need 
yourinvolvement



Hi Pierre,

As i mentioned in my previous email to you i cant wait to get my hands
on your translated book. I of course have your original French version
which i use as my Bible where French meteorites are concerned but an
English version would be superb :-) Please count me as 1st in the
queue!

I will compile a list of french meteorite specimens in my collection
and forward them on to you. I sent you a list previously but will send
an updated list in the next week.

Although I am half French and can more than get by when reading I am
not good enough to be able to proofread the translation unfortunately
otherwise i would gladly volunteer my services :-)

Cheers

Martin


On 26 Mar 2014 19:11, "Pelé Pierre-Marie"  
wrote:


Hello,

I'm working on the translation of my book about french meteorites.  The 
new book will be entitled "Encyclopedia of French Meteorites".


I would like to add to each meteorite file, the repository of specimens 
in museums and private collections.


So, if you own french meteorites, I would be glad to add in my book your 
inventory.


Simply send me for each meteorite :
- name of the meteorite
- total mass you have

I hope to publish the book in june 2014.

I'm also searching for someone who is bilingual in french and english to 
read the french version and english version and to correct all mistakes. 
It's a hard work (150 pages).  The proofreader would have as a gift a 
signed english book and 500$ of meteorites to choose from my website.


Thanks a lot for your help

Pierre-Marie Pelé
Meteor-Center
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche
http://www.meteor-center.com
IMCA 3360
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Re: [meteorite-list] 2014 Tucson Harvey Award short note

2014-03-26 Thread Graham Ensor
Look forward to meeting you there Fredbet you're looking forward
to going up the stone spiral staircase to the rooms without knee pain.

Graham

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:38 PM,   wrote:
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> List,
> Thanks for so many nice notes and comments from list members. I felt my post 
> was getting too long so I left off thanking two list members who were so 
> important in my finding my second and third meteorites in Yelland, NV. Mark 
> Bowling and his dad were there with metal detectors, advice and friendship! 
> Kim Cathcart was also very helpful in hunting techniques and support. I am 
> sitting here two weeks into total knee replacement and looking forward to 
> Ensisheim in June.
> Best Regards, Fred Olsen, Denver
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Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need yourinvolvement

2014-03-26 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Hello Michael,

thanks for this kind message.  I had found a bilingual reader for my book 
before I read your message.

I hope you'll enjoy my book when it's available this summer.

Kind regards
 
Pierre-Marie Pelé 
Meteor-Center 
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche 
http://www.meteor-center.com 
IMCA 3360


- Mail original -
De : Michael Bross 
À : Martin Goff ; Pierre-Marie Pelé 

Cc : MeteoriteList 
Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 21h53
Objet : Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need 
yourinvolvement

I could help
I am French and lived many years in NY

Cheers
MB

--
From: "Martin Goff" 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:39 PM
To: "Pierre-Marie Pelé" 
Cc: "MeteoriteList" 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need 
yourinvolvement

> Hi Pierre,
>
> As i mentioned in my previous email to you i cant wait to get my hands
> on your translated book. I of course have your original French version
> which i use as my Bible where French meteorites are concerned but an
> English version would be superb :-) Please count me as 1st in the
> queue!
>
> I will compile a list of french meteorite specimens in my collection
> and forward them on to you. I sent you a list previously but will send
> an updated list in the next week.
>
> Although I am half French and can more than get by when reading I am
> not good enough to be able to proofread the translation unfortunately
> otherwise i would gladly volunteer my services :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
> On 26 Mar 2014 19:11, "Pelé Pierre-Marie"  
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on the translation of my book about french meteorites.  The 
>> new book will be entitled "Encyclopedia of French Meteorites".
>>
>> I would like to add to each meteorite file, the repository of specimens 
>> in museums and private collections.
>>
>> So, if you own french meteorites, I would be glad to add in my book your 
>> inventory.
>>
>> Simply send me for each meteorite :
>> - name of the meteorite
>> - total mass you have
>>
>> I hope to publish the book in june 2014.
>>
>> I'm also searching for someone who is bilingual in french and english to 
>> read the french version and english version and to correct all mistakes. 
>> It's a hard work (150 pages).  The proofreader would have as a gift a 
>> signed english book and 500$ of meteorites to choose from my website.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help
>>
>> Pierre-Marie Pelé
>> Meteor-Center
>> Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche
>> http://www.meteor-center.com
>> IMCA 3360
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[meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need your involvement

2014-03-26 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Thanks to all of you for your kind message.

I just found a bilingual meteorite addict who will read my book and correct it.

More information in a few months when I can publish it.

Kind regards 

Pierre-Marie Pelé 
Meteor-Center 
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche 
http://www.meteor-center.com 
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Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need your involvement

2014-03-26 Thread Martin Goff
My opinion would be that yes, i think the repository information is
very useful although i completely understand that it would never be
complete. I see it as a general snapshot of specimens out there. I
would imagine most museums and university collections would be happy
to provide that info (or am i wrong in saying that?) Or even that that
info is readily available in catalogues etc. regards to provate
collectors i would have thought that most folk would again be happy to
provide that info, unless people would not want their collection
details to be made public in such a forum as a printed book. My guess
would be that those would be in the minority.

So i would really welcome the reposity info as part of the book and
would say please do include it. i am sure a few repeat posts here and
on facebook forums and other forums such as BIMS and the French
meteorite forum, nugget shooters, club space rock etc would make the
request highly visible and mean you get lots of responses.

As most French meteorites are quite rare and hard (expensive) to get
hold of i think these sort of reposity lists are a very useful
snapshot whereas with more commonly held meteorites they would be much
less useful and indeed too difficult to do due to the vast number of
individual specimens ou there.

My 2 cents anyway :-)

Cheers

Martin

On 26/03/2014, Pelé Pierre-Marie  wrote:
> Thanks for your kind message Martin.  I think I found a bilingual reader in
> the meteorite community just after I sent my message on the MetList.
>
> I don't know how to manage the repository lists,  is it better to have none
> or incomplete lists in a book ?  I don't know.
>
> Pierre-Marie Pelé
> Meteor-Center
-- 
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www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
IMCA #3387
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Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need your involvement

2014-03-26 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Thanks for your kind message Martin.  I think I found a bilingual reader in the 
meteorite community just after I sent my message on the MetList.

I don't know how to manage the repository lists,  is it better to have none or 
incomplete lists in a book ?  I don't know.
 
Pierre-Marie Pelé 
Meteor-Center 
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche 
http://www.meteor-center.com 
IMCA 3360


- Mail original -
De : Martin Goff 
À : Pierre-Marie Pelé 
Cc : MeteoriteList 
Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 21h39
Objet : Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need your 
involvement

Hi Pierre,

As i mentioned in my previous email to you i cant wait to get my hands
on your translated book. I of course have your original French version
which i use as my Bible where French meteorites are concerned but an
English version would be superb :-) Please count me as 1st in the
queue!

I will compile a list of french meteorite specimens in my collection
and forward them on to you. I sent you a list previously but will send
an updated list in the next week.

Although I am half French and can more than get by when reading I am
not good enough to be able to proofread the translation unfortunately
otherwise i would gladly volunteer my services :-)

Cheers

Martin



On 26 Mar 2014 19:11, "Pelé Pierre-Marie"  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on the translation of my book about french meteorites.  The new 
> book will be entitled "Encyclopedia of French Meteorites".
>
> I would like to add to each meteorite file, the repository of specimens in 
> museums and private collections.
>
> So, if you own french meteorites, I would be glad to add in my book your 
> inventory.
>
> Simply send me for each meteorite :
> - name of the meteorite
> - total mass you have
>
> I hope to publish the book in june 2014.
>
> I'm also searching for someone who is bilingual in french and english to read 
> the french version and english version and to correct all mistakes.  It's a 
> hard work (150 pages).  The proofreader would have as a gift a signed english 
> book and 500$ of meteorites to choose from my website.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help
>
> Pierre-Marie Pelé
> Meteor-Center
> Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche
> http://www.meteor-center.com
> IMCA 3360
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Re: [meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need your involvement

2014-03-26 Thread Martin Goff
Hi Pierre,

As i mentioned in my previous email to you i cant wait to get my hands
on your translated book. I of course have your original French version
which i use as my Bible where French meteorites are concerned but an
English version would be superb :-) Please count me as 1st in the
queue!

I will compile a list of french meteorite specimens in my collection
and forward them on to you. I sent you a list previously but will send
an updated list in the next week.

Although I am half French and can more than get by when reading I am
not good enough to be able to proofread the translation unfortunately
otherwise i would gladly volunteer my services :-)

Cheers

Martin


On 26 Mar 2014 19:11, "Pelé Pierre-Marie"  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on the translation of my book about french meteorites.  The new 
> book will be entitled "Encyclopedia of French Meteorites".
>
> I would like to add to each meteorite file, the repository of specimens in 
> museums and private collections.
>
> So, if you own french meteorites, I would be glad to add in my book your 
> inventory.
>
> Simply send me for each meteorite :
> - name of the meteorite
> - total mass you have
>
> I hope to publish the book in june 2014.
>
> I'm also searching for someone who is bilingual in french and english to read 
> the french version and english version and to correct all mistakes.  It's a 
> hard work (150 pages).  The proofreader would have as a gift a signed english 
> book and 500$ of meteorites to choose from my website.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help
>
> Pierre-Marie Pelé
> Meteor-Center
> Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche
> http://www.meteor-center.com
> IMCA 3360
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[meteorite-list] 2012 VP113 and Sedna

2014-03-26 Thread Ron Baalke

Hi,

I've created a special orbit applet that displays the orbits
of both Sedna and 2012 VP113, two of the most distant objects
known in our solar system.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/sedna.html

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[meteorite-list] new book on french meteorites - need your involvement

2014-03-26 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Hello,

I'm working on the translation of my book about french meteorites.  The new 
book will be entitled "Encyclopedia of French Meteorites".

I would like to add to each meteorite file, the repository of specimens in 
museums and private collections.

So, if you own french meteorites, I would be glad to add in my book your 
inventory.

Simply send me for each meteorite :
- name of the meteorite
- total mass you have

I hope to publish the book in june 2014.  

I'm also searching for someone who is bilingual in french and english to read 
the french version and english version and to correct all mistakes.  It's a 
hard work (150 pages).  The proofreader would have as a gift a signed english 
book and 500$ of meteorites to choose from my website.

Thanks a lot for your help

Pierre-Marie Pelé 
Meteor-Center 
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche 
http://www.meteor-center.com 
IMCA 3360 
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[meteorite-list] First Ring System Around Asteroid Discovered by Brasil and Denmark

2014-03-26 Thread drtanuki
List,

First Ring System Around Asteroid Discovered by Brasil and Denmark
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/first-ring-system-around-asteroid.html


Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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[meteorite-list] First Ring System Discovered Around Asteroid (Chariklo)

2014-03-26 Thread Ron Baalke


http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1410/

First Ring System Around Asteroid

Chariklo found to have two rings
European Southern Observatory
26 March 2014

[Image]
Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO's La Silla 
Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid 
Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. This is the smallest 
object by far found to have rings and only the fifth body in the Solar 
System - after the much larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 
- to have this feature. The origin of these rings remains a mystery, but 
they may be the result of a collision that created a disc of debris. The 
new results are published online in the journal Nature on 26 March 2014.

The rings of Saturn are one of the most spectacular sights in the sky, 
and less prominent rings have also been found around the other giant planets. 
Despite many careful searches, no rings had been found around smaller 
objects orbiting the Sun in the Solar System. Now observations of the 
distant minor planet [1] (10199) Chariklo [2] as it passed in front of 
a star have shown that this object too is surrounded by two fine rings.

"We weren't looking for a ring and didn't think small bodies like Chariklo 
had them at all, so the discovery - and the amazing amount of detail we 
saw in the system - came as a complete surprise!" says Felipe Braga-Ribas 
(Observatorio Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) who planned the 
observation 
campaign and is lead author on the new paper.

Chariklo is the largest member of a class known as the Centaurs [3] and 
it orbits between Saturn and Uranus in the outer Solar System. Predictions 
had shown that it would pass in front of the star UCAC4 248-108672 on 
3 June 2013, as seen from South America [4]. Astronomers using telescopes 
at seven different locations, including the 1.54-metre Danish and TRAPPIST 
telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile [5], were able to watch 
the star apparently vanish for a few seconds as its light was blocked 
by Chariklo - an occultation [6].

But they found much more than they were expecting. A few seconds before, 
and again a few seconds after the main occultation there were two further 
very short dips in the star's apparent brightness [7]. Something around 
Chariklo was blocking the light! By comparing what was seen from different 
sites the team could reconstruct not only the shape and size of the object 
itself but also the shape, width, orientation and other properties of 
the newly discovered rings.

The team found that the ring system consists of two sharply confined rings 
only seven and three kilometres wide, separated by a clear gap of nine 
kilometres - around a small 250-kilometre diameter object orbiting beyond 
Saturn.

"For me, it was quite amazing to realise that we were able not only to 
detect a ring system, but also pinpoint that it consists of two clearly 
distinct rings," adds Uffe Grae Jorgensen (Niels Bohr Institute, University 
of Copenhagen, Denmark), one of the team. "I try to imagine how it would 
be to stand on the surface of this icy object - small enough that a fast 
sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space - and 
stare up at a 20-kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the 
Moon." [8]

Although many questions remain unanswered, astronomers think that this 
sort of ring is likely to be formed from debris left over after a collision. 
It must be confined into the two narrow rings by the presence of small 
putative satellites.

"So, as well as the rings, it's likely that Chariklo has at least one 
small moon still waiting to be discovered," adds Felipe Braga Ribas.

The rings may prove to be a phenomenon that might in turn later lead to 
the formation of a small moon. Such a sequence of events, on a much larger 
scale, may explain the birth of our own Moon in the early days of the 
Solar System, as well as the origin of many other satellites around planets 
and asteroids.

The leaders of this project are provisionally calling the rings by the 
nicknames Oiapoque and Chui, two rivers near the northern and southern 
extremes of Brazil [9].

Notes

[1] All objects that orbit the Sun, which are too small (not massive enough) 
for their own gravity to pull them into a nearly spherical shape are now 
defined by the IAU as being small solar system bodies. This class currently 
includes most of the Solar System asteroids, near-Earth objects (NEOs), 
Mars and Jupiter Trojan asteroids, most Centaurs, most Trans-Neptunian 
objects (TNOs), and comets. In informal usage the words asteroid and minor 
planet are often used to mean the same thing. 

[2] The IAU Minor Planet Center is the nerve centre for the detection 
of small bodies in the Solar System. The names assigned are in two parts, 
a number - originally the order of discovery but now the order in which 
orbits are well-determined - and a name.

[3] Centaurs are small bodies with uns

[meteorite-list] 2014 Tucson Harvey Award short note

2014-03-26 Thread debfred

List, 
Thanks for so many nice notes and comments from list members. I felt my post 
was getting too long so I left off thanking two list members who were so 
important in my finding my second and third meteorites in Yelland, NV. Mark 
Bowling and his dad were there with metal detectors, advice and friendship! Kim 
Cathcart was also very helpful in hunting techniques and support. I am sitting 
here two weeks into total knee replacement and looking forward to Ensisheim in 
June.
Best Regards, Fred Olsen, Denver

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[meteorite-list] Manitoba meteor 24MAR2014 / Ontario Meteor 26MAR2014

2014-03-26 Thread drtanuki
List,

Breaking News - Ontario Canada Meteor Apprx. 0318 Eastern 26MAR2014
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/breaking-news-ontario-canada-meteor.html

Manitoba Canada Meteor Apprx. 05"45 Central 24MAR2014
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/manitoba-canada-meteor-24mar2014.html


Best Regards,  Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2014-03-26 Thread valparint
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Gao Guenie

Contributed by: Ray Watts

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