[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: DAG 670 Contributed by: Natural History Museum of Vienna http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] OT- Jason Utas contact
Hello List, Is anyone else having difficulty communicating with Jason Utas concerning payment? I have been repeatedly sending him inquiries and requests using the following email addresses, meteorite...@x.com. peteru...@xxx.com and bbro...@xxx.com and at his face book address https://www.facebook.com/MeteoriteHunter . As of this posting I have received no replies since Nov 2, 2013 from Jason and Nov 27, 2013 from his mother. Additionally troubling, is that Jason's telephone answering system inexplicably states it is full and will not accept messages. I am making this personal request for assistance in reaching Jason Utas as this is a matter of SERIOUS importance. Thanking you in advance, Dirk RossTokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture Will Be International Space Station First Artwork
but I'm wondering what exactly is the point of melting down part of a meteorite and then recasting it as an exact copy of itself, It's called wait for it .. Irony! plays drums - rat..tat..splash... Sorry couldn't resist that one! Mark -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Noyes via Meteorite-list Sent: 30 July 2014 17:18 To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture Will Be International Space Station First Artwork Hi All, I'm an artist myself, but I'm wondering what exactly is the point of melting down part of a meteorite and then recasting it as an exact copy of itself, indistinguishable from the original. The original meteorite is already a cosmic work of art, a rock transformed when it journeyed through space and then sculpted by the Earth's atmosphere and terrestrial impact. Part of the real meteorite would make a fine art installation on the ISS. It might be more original and interesting to transform a piece of a meteorite into another art form/shape rather than a just duplicate. Best regards, Daniel Daniel Noyes Genuine Moon Mars Meteorite Rocks i...@moonmarsrocks.com www.moonmarsrocks.com Message: 5 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:06:24 -0700 From: lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu To: Art Jones art.jo...@iscs.com Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture Will Be International Space Station?s First Artwork Message-ID: 72ac215aa20e7eb76cc029090b9a34b2.squir...@webmail.lpl.arizona.edu Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Art: But not the first meteorite to be brought back to space from the Earth. If I remember correctly, about 20 years ago (do not remember which mission) Tom Jones brought a meteorite (do not remember what it was) up in the Shuttle. It may have been the same flight that he brought a Zuni Fetish up (and back). Larry Interesting idea and article: http://news.artnet.com/art-world/meteorite-sculpture-will-be-internati onal-space-stations-first-artwork-67923 -Art __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.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://three.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://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD: COLD BOKKEVELD, Ensisheim, St Louis, Sylacauga, Murray ending on ebay Thurs/Fri 530pm EST!
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture Will Be International Space Station?s First Artwork
At $10,000 per kilo (or is it pound), how much will it cost to lift this lump of slag into orbit? Paul Swartz I don't call that Art, but wonder how much the artist charged for it. Anne M. Black __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson
Dear Listoids I make no claim to be an expert on contemporary art/artists, nevertheless I have worked with a number of artists over the last few years in my role as a mineral curator for the National Museums and this has allowed me to get a glimpse of the way different artists devise, plan and execute their works. I haven't had the pleasure of working with Katie, but I do know her and I have met her and we have had some long discussions about meteorites and she does feature meteorites and space in her work a lot. So I feel I ought to give my angle on this as well as try and explain her work on the Campo using her own words. The original concept was formulated in around 2010/11 and the finished cast was exhibited in London in 2012. At about that time she gave an interview and the following quote is lifted directly from the published article: ...The artist domesticates the cosmos' immensity: she gives the unfathomable a human scale, putting it within our reach. The cast meteorite will likely be placed on Exhibition Road (close to the Natural History Museum) in a discrete place, where people can sit around it and be able to touch it, she says. Most meteorites have been travelling around space for over four and a half billion years. They are older than the Earth and are the oldest objects on Earth. I like the idea of this vast cosmic history embedded inside them. Melting a meteorite and reforming it is a little bit like compressing and merging together these layers of time, history and space. Eventually I would like to send the meteorite back into Space, though that might not be for many years. Well the many years have now past and Katie has send the recast meteorite into space. Hope this helps. Cheers Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Minerals National Museums Collection Centre 242 West Granton Road Edinburgh EH5 1JA 00 44 131 247 4283 p.david...@nms.ac.uk Discover the treasures of China's Ming dynasty at the National Museum of Scotland. Ming: The Golden Empire, 27 June-19 October 2014, www.nms.ac.uk/ming National Museums Scotland, Scottish Charity, No. SC 011130 This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the addressee please inform the sender and delete the email from your system. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of National Museums Scotland. This message is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. No liability is accepted for any harm that may be caused to your systems or data by this message. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Fossils Found in Impact Glass
Hi List, I would like to clarify my earlier comments about fossil-bearing impactites being junk science. This was not directed at the bonafide scientists who are researching this issue. My comments were directed at the Wickramasinghe types and the Martian Blood Vessels types. It was brought to my attention that my knowledge of the subject is sorely lacking and that there is legitimate research that has shown the presence of fossil materials in impact glass. I guess my bias came from the fact that I cannot wrap my head around the idea that intense heat from impact can vaporize or melt rock, but leave fossils intact. It is fascinating stuff. So, if I offended any scientists doing research on this, I apologize. Best regards, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - On 7/30/14 1:35 PM, Galactic Stone Ironworks via Meteorite-list wrote: Mar del Plata is not even a meteorite - it's classified as a pseudometeorite. In addition, neither site is listed in the Earth Impact Database. Considering that, it's easy to believe that they found fossils, because none of the materials they mention are meteorites or impactites. More wasted time, energy, and money on junk science. Indeed, sales of all fossil-bearing impact glasses are hereby suspended until further notice Best regards, MikeG __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: Jul 2-8, 2014
OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Rover Completes Study of Area with Aluminum Clay Minerals; Heads South - sols 3711-3717, July 02, 2014-July 08, 2014: Opportunity is exploring south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover completed the survey of the region where orbital data suggests the presence of aluminum-hydroxyl clay minerals. On Sol 3711 (July 2, 2014), Opportunity began to move south. The rover collected some documentary Panoramic Camera (Pancam) images, and then drove a little over 79 feet (24 meters). The drive was followed by a 360-degree Navigation Camera (Navcam) panorama to document the new location and potential drive directions. On Sol 3713 (July 4, 2014), Opportunity continued heading south with a 43-feet (13-meter)-drive towards a feature called 'Broken Hills.' The drive was again preceded by targeted Pancam images and followed by documentary Navcam panoramas. The spacecraft clock correction effort continued each sol with the rate increased from 3 to 4 seconds on Sol 3715 (July 6, 2014). On 3716 (July 7, 2014), Opportunity headed closer to Broken Hills with a 62-feet (19-meter)-drive and more documentary imagery, plus an overnight atmospheric argon measurement with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer. On Sol 3717 (July 8, 2014), the rover performed drive-by and got pictures (mid-drive imagery) of a large fin-like structure of Broken Hills as it passed during the 39-feet (12-meter)-drive. As of Sol 3717 (July 8, 2014), the solar array energy production was 735 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.738 and a solar array dust factor of 0.878. Total odometry is 24.66 miles (39.69 kilometers). __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: July 9-17, 2014
OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Opportunity Heads South Towards Valley A Mile Away - sols 3718-3725, July 09, 2014-July 17, 2014: Opportunity is exploring south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading toward a valley over 1 mile (2 kilometers) away observed with clay minerals from orbit. The rover has been busy with driving on six of the last eight days (sols) with some robotic work on one of the two non-driving sols. Opportunity moved a total of 797 feet (243 meters) over the eight-sol period, collecting targeted Panoramic Camera (Pancam) images before each drive and Navigation Camera (Navcam) panoramas after each drive. The vehicle did experience another Flash-induced reset event during the drive on Sol 3724 (July 15, 2014). Although these resets have occurred before, this was the first time that it happened during a drive. The flight team was able to restore normal operations with the rover on the very next sol. The project continues to investigate these Flash-related anomalies. The one sol of in-situ (contact) science was the first sol of a two-sol autonomous 'touch 'n go' where the rover used the robotic arm (the 'touch') on Sol 3720 (July 11, 2014), to collect a Microscopic Imager mosaic of the surface target 'Trebia,' followed by an overnight contact integration measurement performed by the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS). On the next sol (Sol 2721; July 12, 2014), the rover drove (the 'go') over 213 feet (65 meters) with mid-drive imaging. Opportunity will collect an atmospheric argon measurement with the APXS on the evening of Sol 3725 (July 17, 2014). The rover is in good health and operations are nominal. As of Sol 3725 (July 17, 2014), the solar array energy production was 652 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.780 (Sol 3724; July 15, 2014) and a solar array dust factor of 0.854 (Sol 3724). Total odometry is 24.81 miles (39.93 kilometers). __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: July 30, 2014
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES July 30, 2014 o Water-Bearing Rocks in Noctis Labyrinthus http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_036598_1735 Many of the depressions in Noctis Labyrinthus contain water-bearing minerals, suggesting that water was available and persistent in this region in the ancient past. o Preserving Ice from a Vanished Terrain http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_036598_1735 This image shows a pedestal crater, so-named because the level of the surface adjacent to the crater is elevated relative to the surface of the surrounding terrain. o Frosty Gullies http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_037137_1360 HiRISE monitoring has shown that gully formation on Mars occurs in winter and early spring in times and places with frost on the ground. o Layers and Sand on the Floor of Schiaparelli Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_037161_1785 One interpretation of this region is that actively-moving sand kicks off the loose dust so we can see the hardened dust. All of the HiRISE images are archived here: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, of Denver, is the prime contractor and built the spacecraft. HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., of Boulder, Colo., built the HiRISE instrument. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: July 18-22, 2014
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status.html#opportunity OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Opportunity Passes 25 Miles of Driving on Mars! - sols 3726-3730, July 18, 2014-July 22, 2014: Opportunity is exploring south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading toward a notch, called 'Marathon Valley' about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away. This valley has been observed from orbit to have an abundant clay mineral signature. On Sol 3727 (July 19, 2014), the rover began the first sol of a two-sol 'Touch 'n Go' with collecting a Microscopic Imager (MI) mosaic of a surface target of opportunity, called 'Barstow,' then placing the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on the same for a multi-hour integration (the 'Touch'). On the next sol, Opportunity drove over 328 feet (100 meters) (the 'Go') surpassing 25 miles (40 kilometers) in drive distance on Mars. The drive included some mid-drive imaging and post-drive Navigation Camera (Navcam) and Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas. On Sol 3730 (July 22, 2014), the rover moved further with a 325-foot (99-meter) drive, again followed by post-drive Navcam and Pancam panoramas. A Flash memory amnesia event occurred on Sol 3727 (July 19, 2014). However, the science data were recovered with a subsequent second readout of the APXS. As of Sol 3730 (July 22, 2014), the solar array energy production was 676 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.771 and a solar array dust factor of 0.818. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
July 31, 2014 NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet. NASA announced the selected Mars 2020 rover instruments Thursday at the agency's headquarters in Washington. Managers made the selections out of 58 proposals received in January from researchers and engineers worldwide. Proposals received were twice the usual number submitted for instrument competitions in the recent past. This is an indicator of the extraordinary interest by the science community in the exploration of the Mars. The selected proposals have a total value of approximately $130 million for development of the instruments. The Mars 2020 mission will be based on the design of the highly successful Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, which landed almost two years ago, and currently is operating on Mars. The new rover will carry more sophisticated, upgraded hardware and new instruments to conduct geological assessments of the rover's landing site, determine the potential habitability of the environment, and directly search for signs of ancient Martian life. Today we take another important step on our journey to Mars, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. While getting to and landing on Mars is hard, Curiosity was an iconic example of how our robotic scientific explorers are paving the way for humans to pioneer Mars and beyond. Mars exploration will be this generation's legacy, and the Mars 2020 rover will be another critical step on humans' journey to the Red Planet. Scientists will use the Mars 2020 rover to identify and select a collection of rock and soil samples that will be stored for potential return to Earth by a future mission. The Mars 2020 mission is responsive to the science objectives recommended by the National Research Council's 2011 Planetary Science Decadal Survey. The Mars 2020 rover, with these new advanced scientific instruments, including those from our international partners, holds the promise to unlock more mysteries of Mars' past as revealed in the geological record, said John Grunsfeld astronaut, and associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. This mission will further our search for life in the universe and also offer opportunities to advance new capabilities in exploration technology. The Mars 2020 rover also will help advance our knowledge of how future human explorers could use natural resources available on the surface of the Red Planet. An ability to live off the Martian land would transform future exploration of the planet. Designers of future human expeditions can use this mission to understand the hazards posed by Martian dust and demonstrate technology to process carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to produce oxygen. These experiments will help engineers learn how to use Martian resources to produce oxygen for human respiration and potentially oxidizer for rocket fuel. The 2020 rover will help answer questions about the Martian environment that astronauts will face and test technologies they need before landing on, exploring and returning from the Red Planet, said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Mars has resources needed to help sustain life, which can reduce the amount of supplies that human missions will need to carry. Better understanding the Martian dust and weather will be valuable data for planning human Mars missions. Testing ways to extract these resources and understand the environment will help make the pioneering of Mars feasible. The selected payload proposals are: * Mastcam-Z, an advanced camera system with panoramic and stereoscopic imaging capability with the ability to zoom. The instrument also will determine mineralogy of the Martian surface and assist with rover operations. The principal investigator is James Bell, Arizona State University in Phoenix. * SuperCam, an instrument that can provide imaging, chemical composition analysis, and mineralogy. The instrument will also be able to detect the presence of organic compounds in rocks and regolith from a distance. The principal investigator is Roger Wiens, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. This instrument also has a significant contribution from the Centre National dEtudes Spatiales,Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie (CNES/IRAP) France. * Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL), an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer that will also contain an imager with high resolution to determine the fine scale elemental composition of Martian surface materials. PIXL will provide capabilities that permit more detailed detection and analysis of chemical elements
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson
Melting a meteorite and reforming it is a little bit like compressing and merging together these layers of time, history and space. Eventually I would like to send the meteorite back into Space, Replace compressing and merging with destroying and then you have a valid statement. Once melted and reformed, referring to it as a meteorite is no longer correct. Michael in so. Cal. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Peter Davidson via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Dear Listoids I make no claim to be an expert on contemporary art/artists, nevertheless I have worked with a number of artists over the last few years in my role as a mineral curator for the National Museums and this has allowed me to get a glimpse of the way different artists devise, plan and execute their works. I haven't had the pleasure of working with Katie, but I do know her and I have met her and we have had some long discussions about meteorites and she does feature meteorites and space in her work a lot. So I feel I ought to give my angle on this as well as try and explain her work on the Campo using her own words. The original concept was formulated in around 2010/11 and the finished cast was exhibited in London in 2012. At about that time she gave an interview and the following quote is lifted directly from the published article: ...The artist domesticates the cosmos' immensity: she gives the unfathomable a human scale, putting it within our reach. The cast meteorite will likely be placed on Exhibition Road (close to the Natural History Museum) in a discrete place, where people can sit around it and be able to touch it, she says. Most meteorites have been travelling around space for over four and a half billion years. They are older than the Earth and are the oldest objects on Earth. I like the idea of this vast cosmic history embedded inside them. Melting a meteorite and reforming it is a little bit like compressing and merging together these layers of time, history and space. Eventually I would like to send the meteorite back into Space, though that might not be for many years. Well the many years have now past and Katie has send the recast meteorite into space. Hope this helps. Cheers Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Minerals National Museums Collection Centre 242 West Granton Road Edinburgh EH5 1JA 00 44 131 247 4283 p.david...@nms.ac.uk Discover the treasures of China's Ming dynasty at the National Museum of Scotland. Ming: The Golden Empire, 27 June-19 October 2014, www.nms.ac.uk/ming National Museums Scotland, Scottish Charity, No. SC 011130 This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the addressee please inform the sender and delete the email from your system. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of National Museums Scotland. This message is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. No liability is accepted for any harm that may be caused to your systems or data by this message. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.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://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson
This is different only in scale from using a bit of meteorite in brewing beer, as an aphrodisiac, or when I included a fragment of an unclassified common NWA in my kitchen tile countertop. There is a long history of artists repurposing materials for their artwork (although the gent who ground up lunars to use instead of Viagra is stretching that definition); some are more accepted than others. I do agree that after such extensive manipulation the only thing that might be said about the material is that it was of meteoric origin. Best! Tracy Latimer To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:14:41 + Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson From: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Dear Listoids I make no claim to be an expert on contemporary art/artists, nevertheless I have worked with a number of artists over the last few years in my role as a mineral curator for the National Museums and this has allowed me to get a glimpse of the way different artists devise, plan and execute their works. I haven't had the pleasure of working with Katie, but I do know her and I have met her and we have had some long discussions about meteorites and she does feature meteorites and space in her work a lot. So I feel I ought to give my angle on this as well as try and explain her work on the Campo using her own words. The original concept was formulated in around 2010/11 and the finished cast was exhibited in London in 2012. At about that time she gave an interview and the following quote is lifted directly from the published article: ...The artist domesticates the cosmos' immensity: she gives the unfathomable a human scale, putting it within our reach. The cast meteorite will likely be placed on Exhibition Road (close to the Natural History Museum) in a discrete place, where people can sit around it and be able to touch it, she says. Most meteorites have been travelling around space for over four and a half billion years. They are older than the Earth and are the oldest objects on Earth. I like the idea of this vast cosmic history embedded inside them. Melting a meteorite and reforming it is a little bit like compressing and merging together these layers of time, history and space. Eventually I would like to send the meteorite back into Space, though that might not be for many years. Well the many years have now past and Katie has send the recast meteorite into space. Hope this helps. Cheers Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Minerals __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson
I have to agree with Michael, Sorry Peter. When you melt a meteorite you destroy the crystallization that has occurred over billions of years, the Widmanstatten pattern. You are left with a lump of metal that used to be a meteorite. Personally, knowing what she was about to do to it, I would have refused to sell a meteorite to that artist. Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com -Original Message- From: Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com To: Peter Davidson p.david...@nms.ac.uk Cc: Meteorite List (meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com) meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thu, Jul 31, 2014 1:45 pm Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson Melting a meteorite and reforming it is a little bit like compressing and merging together these layers of time, history and space. Eventually I would like to send the meteorite back into Space, Replace compressing and merging with destroying and then you have a valid statement. Once melted and reformed, referring to it as a meteorite is no longer correct. Michael in so. Cal. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Peter Davidson via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Dear Listoids I make no claim to be an expert on contemporary art/artists, nevertheless I have worked with a number of artists over the last few years in my role as a mineral curator for the National Museums and this has allowed me to get a glimpse of the way different artists devise, plan and execute their works. I haven't had the pleasure of working with Katie, but I do know her and I have met her and we have had some long discussions about meteorites and she does feature meteorites and space in her work a lot. So I feel I ought to give my angle on this as well as try and explain her work on the Campo using her own words. The original concept was formulated in around 2010/11 and the finished cast was exhibited in London in 2012. At about that time she gave an interview and the following quote is lifted directly from the published article: ...The artist domesticates the cosmos' immensity: she gives the unfathomable a human scale, putting it within our reach. The cast meteorite will likely be placed on Exhibition Road (close to the Natural History Museum) in a discrete place, where people can sit around it and be able to touch it, she says. Most meteorites have been travelling around space for over four and a half billion years. They are older than the Earth and are the oldest objects on Earth. I like the idea of this vast cosmic history embedded inside them. Melting a meteorite and reforming it is a little bit like compressing and merging together these layers of time, history and space. Eventually I would like to send the meteorite back into Space, though that might not be for many years. Well the many years have now past and Katie has send the recast meteorite into space. Hope this helps. Cheers Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Minerals National Museums Collection Centre 242 West Granton Road Edinburgh EH5 1JA 00 44 131 247 4283 p.david...@nms.ac.uk Discover the treasures of China's Ming dynasty at the National Museum of Scotland. Ming: The Golden Empire, 27 June-19 October 2014, www.nms.ac.uk/ming National Museums Scotland, Scottish Charity, No. SC 011130 This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the addressee please inform the sender and delete the email from your system. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of National Museums Scotland. This message is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. No liability is accepted for any harm that may be caused to your systems or data by this message. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.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://three.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://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Brasilia, Brasil Beautiful Fireball Meteor 29JUL2014 video
List, Brasilia, Brasil Beautiful Fireball Meteor 29JUL2014 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/08/brasilia-brasil-fireball-meteor.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Rosetta's Comet: Imaging the Coma
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-256 Rosetta's Comet: Imaging the Coma Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 31, 2014 Less than a week before Rosetta's rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, images obtained by OSIRIS, the spacecraft's onboard scientific imaging system, show clear signs of a coma surrounding the comet's nucleus. A new image from July 25, 2014, clearly reveals an extended coma shrouding 67P's nucleus. Our coma images cover an area of 150 by 150 square kilometers (90 by 90 square miles), said Luisa Lara from the Institute of Astrophysics in Andalusia, Spain. Most likely these images show only the inner part of the coma, where particle densities are highest. Scientist expect that 67P's full coma actually reaches much farther. In the current image, the hazy, bright, circular structure to the right of the comet's nucleus is an artifact of the OSIRIS optical system. The center of the image located around the position of the nucleus is overexposed here. Other new images of the comet's nucleus confirm the collar-like appearance of the neck region, which appears brighter than most parts of the comet's body and head. Possible explanations range from differences in material or grain size to topological effects. Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. The scientific imaging system, OSIRIS, was built by a consortium led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Germany) in collaboration with Center of Studies and Activities for Space, University of Padua (Italy), the Astrophysical Laboratory of Marseille (France), the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, CSIC (Spain), the Scientific Support Office of the European Space Agency (Netherlands), the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (Spain), the Technical University of Madrid (Spain), the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Uppsala University (Sweden) and the Institute of Computer and Network Engineering of the TU Braunschweig (Germany). OSIRIS was financially supported by the national funding agencies of Germany (DLR), France (CNES), Italy (ASI), Spain, and Sweden and the ESA Technical Directorate. Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by DLR, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, CNES and ASI. Rosetta will be the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the sun, and deploy a lander to its surface. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, a division of the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena, manages the U.S. participation in the Rosetta mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Rosetta carries three NASA instruments in its 21-instrument payload. For more information on the U.S. instruments aboard Rosetta, visit: http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov More information about Rosetta is available at: http://www.esa.int/rosetta Preston Dyches Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-7013 preston.dyc...@jpl.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown NASA Headquarters 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov Markus Bauer European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands 011-31-71-565-6799 markus.ba...@esa.int Birgit Krummheuer Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research 011-49-551-384-979-462 krummhe...@mps.mpg.de 2014-256 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Link of the Week #10 : Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona
Meteorite Link of the Week #10 : Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona Link : http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/barringer_crater_guidebook/ This is a free online copy of this book that covers the impact, meteorites, and geology of the Canyon Diablo crater. The page also has links to other crater-related resources, including maps and satellite imagery. Best regards, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Brasilia, Brasil Beautiful Fireball Meteor 29JUL2014 video
Beautiful! Thank you, Dirk Count Deiro IMCA 3536 -Original Message- From: drtanuki via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Jul 31, 2014 4:34 PM To: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Brasilia,Brasil Beautiful Fireball Meteor 29JUL2014 video List, Brasilia, Brasil Beautiful Fireball Meteor 29JUL2014 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/08/brasilia-brasil-fireball-meteor.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.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://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
