[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Paragould Contributed by: Anne Black http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Spain Superbolide 8SEP2014
List, Fantastic videos! Meteorites anyone?http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/09/spain-super-bolide-08sep2014.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks show up from NIC crater....NOT very
For Now It's All Hypotheses As Critics Say Theory May Be Meteor-wrong Today Nicaragua According to the official government website, El19digital.com, Nicaraguan scientist, Jaime Incer Barquero, said that there is evidence of a meteor ... http://todaynicaragua.com/for-now-its-all-hypotheses-as-critics-say-theory-may-be-meteor-wrong/ That scientist is a biologist: http://www.drycanal.com/news-incer.htm Ron __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks show up from NIC crater....NOT very
I would also recommend to the Nicaraguan government that they procure a more official sounding domain name. Michael in so. Cal. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: For Now It's All Hypotheses As Critics Say Theory May Be Meteor-wrong Today Nicaragua According to the official government website, El19digital.com, Nicaraguan scientist, Jaime Incer Barquero, said that there is evidence of a meteor ... http://todaynicaragua.com/for-now-its-all-hypotheses-as-critics-say-theory-may-be-meteor-wrong/ That scientist is a biologist: http://www.drycanal.com/news-incer.htm Ron __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks show up from NIC crater....NOT very
Sales of all meteorites authenticated by biologists are hereby suspended until further notice. -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - On 9/11/14, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: I would also recommend to the Nicaraguan government that they procure a more official sounding domain name. Michael in so. Cal. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: For Now It's All Hypotheses As Critics Say Theory May Be Meteor-wrong Today Nicaragua According to the official government website, El19digital.com, Nicaraguan scientist, Jaime Incer Barquero, said that there is evidence of a meteor ... http://todaynicaragua.com/for-now-its-all-hypotheses-as-critics-say-theory-may-be-meteor-wrong/ That scientist is a biologist: http://www.drycanal.com/news-incer.htm Ron __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: August 29 - September 3, 2014
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status.html#opportunity OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Flash-Memory Reformat is Underway - sols 3767-3772, August 29, 2014-September 03, 2014: Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals. The project is taking steps to reformat the rover's Flash file system to correct the recurring reset problem. On Sols 3767 and 3768 (Aug. 29 and 30, 2014), the project sent special commands to put the rover into a mode that does not use the Flash file system. This was successful and the rover performed without any errors for those two sols. A diagnostic check of the flight software portion of Flash was also performed. For Sols 3769, 3770 and 3771 (Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and Sept. 2, 2014), the rover was operated back in its normal mode using the Flash files system. The rover remained under master sequence control for all three sols without any Flash-induced resets. On Sol 3772 (Sept. 3, 2014), the project began the process of copying a subset of necessary files from the Flash files system over to EEPROM (other non-volatile storage) for safe keeping during the reformat process. The plan ahead is to perform the reformat of the Flash files system, then restore the necessary files to Flash. At that point, the rover should be back into normal operation. As of Sol 3771 (Sept. 2, 2014), the solar array energy production was 713 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.852 and a solar array dust factor of 0.771. Total odometry is 25.28 miles (40.69 kilometers). __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: September 10, 2014
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES September 10, 2014 o Banded TARs in Iapygia http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_020782_1610 The tropics of Mars are commonly littered with small bright ripples that were somehow shaped by the wind. o Chaos in Eridania Basin http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_037142_1430 Eridania is the name of topographically enclosed basin located in the Southern highlands of Mars that has been suggested to be the site of a large ancient lake or inland sea. o Mysterious Light-Toned Deposit in Vinogradov Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_037163_1590 The southeastern floor of Vinogradov Crater is covered with several mysterious light-toned, sub-meter scale blobs that lack obvious layering. o Overlapping Lobate Lava Flows in Daedalia Planum http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_037641_1560 The high-resolution of HiRISE images allows for reconstruction of complex volcanic surfaces including geological relationships within a flow field. 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 https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Mount Sharp
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-307 NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain Jet Propulsion Laboratory September 11, 2014 NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission's long-term prime destination. Curiosity now will begin a new chapter from an already outstanding introduction to the world, said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. After a historic and innovative landing along with its successful science discoveries, the scientific sequel is upon us. Curiosity's trek up the mountain will begin with an examination of the mountain's lower slopes. The rover is starting this process at an entry point near an outcrop called Pahrump Hills, rather than continuing on to the previously-planned, further entry point known as Murray Buttes. Both entry points lay along a boundary where the southern base layer of the mountain meets crater-floor deposits washed down from the crater's northern rim. It has been a long but historic journey to this Martian mountain, said Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The nature of the terrain at Pahrump Hills and just beyond it is a better place than Murray Buttes to learn about the significance of this contact. The exposures at the contact are better due to greater topographic relief. The decision to head uphill sooner, instead of continuing to Murray Buttes, also draws from improved understanding of the region's geography provided by the rover's examinations of several outcrops during the past year. Curiosity currently is positioned at the base of the mountain along a pale, distinctive geological feature called the Murray formation. Compared to neighboring crater-floor terrain, the rock of the Murray formation is softer and does not preserve impact scars, as well. As viewed from orbit, it is not as well-layered as other units at the base of Mount Sharp. Curiosity made its first close-up study last month of two Murray formation outcrops, both revealing notable differences from the terrain explored by Curiosity during the past year. The first outcrop, called Bonanza King, proved too unstable for drilling, but was examined by the rover's instruments and determined to have high silicon content. A second outcrop, examined with the rover's telephoto Mast Camera, revealed a fine-grained, platy surface laced with sulfate-filled veins. While some of these terrain differences are not apparent in observations made by NASA's Mars orbiters, the rover team still relies heavily on images taken by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to plan Curiosity's travel routes and locations for study. For example, MRO images helped the rover team locate mesas that are over 60 feet (18 meters) tall in an area of terrain shortly beyond Pahrump Hills, which reveal an exposure of the Murray formation uphill and toward the south. The team plans to use Curiosity's drill to acquire a sample from this site for analysis by instruments inside the rover. The site lies at the southern end of a valley Curiosity will enter this week from the north. Though this valley has a sandy floor the length of two football fields, the team expects it will be an easier trek than the sandy-floored Hidden Valley, where last month Curiosity's wheels slipped too much for safe crossing. Curiosity reached its current location after its route was modified earlier this year in response to excessive wheel wear. In late 2013, the team realized a region of Martian terrain littered with sharp, embedded rocks was poking holes in four of the rover's six wheels. This damage accelerated the rate of wear and tear beyond that for which the rover team had planned. In response, the team altered the rover's route to a milder terrain, bringing the rover farther south, toward the base of Mount Sharp. The wheels issue contributed to taking the rover farther south sooner than planned, but it is not a factor in the science-driven decision to start ascending here rather than continuing to Murray Buttes first, said Jennifer Trosper, Curiosity Deputy Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. We have been driving hard for many months to reach the entry point to Mount Sharp, Trosper said. Now that we've made it, we'll be adjusting the operations style from a priority on driving to a priority on conducting the investigations needed at each layer of the mountain. After landing inside Gale Crater in August 2012, Curiosity fulfilled in its first year of operations its major science goal of determining whether Mars ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. Clay-bearing sedimentary rocks on the crater floor, in an area called Yellowknife Bay, yielded evidence of a lakebed environment billions of years ago that offered fresh
[meteorite-list] Big solar storm heading toward Earth
A bit off subject (please forgive me) but thought many on the List might find interesting. http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/11/tech/innovation/solar-storm/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Sincerely Don Merchant Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders www.ctreasurescwonders.com IMCA #0960 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Nicaragua Meteorite Found in Photograph by Dirk Ross hours ago
List, Here is the latest on the Nicaragua Meteorite Crater- Nicaragua Meteorite Found in Photograph by Dirk Ross hours ago http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/09/meteorite-discovered-in-photograph-of.html Photos dont lie! But who got the meteorite??? Enjoy! Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
