[meteorite-list] New publication - Catalog of Meteorites 1st Edition
Hello, I'm happy to announce the publication of my Catalog of Meteorites (1st edition). It's a catalog of my collection with nice color photos and many information about the meteorites I own or I found. 102 pages, full color. You can order it here : http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/794674?__r=226432 Pierre-Marie Pelé Meteor-Center Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche http://www.meteor-center.com IMCA 3360 __ 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] Meteorites at Auction and Holiday Gem Show AD
Hi List, I have a few meteorite auctions ending this Sunday around 8 PM EST. http://www.ebay.com/usr/crystalcoastgems http://www.ebay.com/sch/crystalcoastgems/m.html?_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1 Including: Sikhote-Alin Mundrabilla Wabar Pallasovka Allende Murchison D'Orbigny Casilda Nuevo Mercurio Plus some Sikhote pendants at $22 with free shipping ATLANTA GEORGIA GEM SHOW I'll be at the North Atlanta Trade Center with meteorites, rocks, minerals and more next Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Stop by and say Hi if you are in the area! http://www.mammothrock.com http://www.mammothrock.com/show_info.html Cheers and Happy Holidays! John MeteoriteUSA.com __ 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] As : Last 30% Sale Before Xmas - Sutter's Mill Bessey Specks, Trinitite and Meteorite Displays, Stocking Stuffers
Hi Listees and Collectors, If you plan on ordering something for pre-Christmas delivery, time is growing short. For buyers outside the US, it would be best to order very soon to ensure delivery before the holiday. If you live in the US, you still have some time. To get the 30% discount on your entire order, use coupon code "xmas" at checkout. Collection Sets - http://www.galactic-stone.com/products/collection-sets?pagesize=24 Gift Displays - http://www.galactic-stone.com/products/unique-gift-displays?pagesize=24 Stocking Stuffers - http://www.galactic-stone.com/products/stocking-stuffers?pagesize=24 All New Specimens - http://www.galactic-stone.com/products/brand-new?pagesize=24 Sutter's Mill hammer-stone micros (SM14) - http://www.galactic-stone.com/product/sutters-mill--rare-california-carbonaceous-witnessed-fall-hammer-stone-micro NWA 8417 micros (LL7) - http://www.galactic-stone.com/product/nwa-8417-unusual-green-ll7-chondrite-micromount Norton County micros (aubrite) - http://www.galactic-stone.com/product/norton-county--historic-worlds-largest-aubrite-meteorite-micromount Thanks for looking and have a great weekend! 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 https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Ad-Tissint, Esquel, Mars and Moon Rocks
I have many auctions ending today and tomorrow which include fresh Tissint, a big 900g Esquel, several different lunar and Mars rocks, crusted diogenites and eucrites... All reasonable offers considered especially off Ebay. Please have a look here: http://stores.ebay.com/Mile-High-Meteorites/ Thank you Matt -- Matt Morgan Mile High Meteorites PO Box 151293 Lakewood CO 80215 USA http://www.mhmeteorites.com Find Us on Facebook __ 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] Finding organic compounds is not proof life has been found on Mars
Hello Listers, Something I found on the net. I just think its just a matter of time when we can prove there was life on Mars. We can prove there was water. I think in the 4 billion years, there has to be some type of life form on Mars, but the question is, how will the religious community take it when its has been proven? "Many scientists have long been looking for evidence of life on Mars. Some thought they found this evidence in a meteorite named Tissint that fell to Earth in 2011 in the Moroccan desert. A report suggested the discovery showed carbon-containing fluids, which could have been made by life, once flowed on Mars. "The presence of organic-rich fluids that infiltrated rocks near the surface of Mars has significant implications for the study of Martian paleoenvironment and perhaps [for a] search for possible ancient biological activities on Mars," the researchers wrote. *** Some Christians think this drive to discover extraterrestrial life is fueled by a strong desire to not want to have to feel accountable to God. Without the need to obey God’s laws, these unbelievers may feel they can have more freedom. But that is not the case. Unbelief is sin. Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross to free us from the slavery of sin. As St. Paul writes, “For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin” (Romans 6:6) Think of what we will be free from when we become free in Christ--no more worries about our sins, no more worries about our eternal destinies, no more despair over losing fellow believers in death, for we shall see them again in heaven. And it is all ours when we come to faith in Jesus as our Savior." source: http://lsiblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/scientists-debate-evidence-for-life-in.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scientists-debate-the-evidence-for-life-in-a-meteorite Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ 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] Culberson To Chair NASA House Appropriations Subcommittee
http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/42614culberson-to-chair-nasa-house-appropriations-subcommittee Culberson To Chair NASA House Appropriations Subcommittee By Jeff Foust Space News Nov. 21, 2014 WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), a strong advocate of NASA's exploration and planetary science programs, will chair the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that funds the agency in the next Congress, the committee announced Nov. 20. In a statement, committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) released the list of the 12 subcommittee chairs approved by the Republican Steering Committee. That list included Culberson as chairman of the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) subcommittee, which funds NASA as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) will continue to head the defense subcommittee, which funds military space and missile defense programs. Culberson was widely considered to be one of two front-runners to succeed Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), the previous CJS subcommittee chairman, who is retiring at the end of this year. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), the current vice chairman of the subcommittee, was also in contention for the post, but will instead retain the chairmanship of the agriculture and rural development subcommittee. "I am honored that my House Republican colleagues have chosen me as the new chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee," Culberson said in a Nov. 20 statement. "I'm grateful to have earned Chairman Hal Rogers' confidence, and it is a real privilege to succeed Chairman Frank Wolf." In the statement, Culberson said he would emphasize both law enforcement and science as subcommittee chairman. "It will also be a source of great joy for me to help lift up NASA and the NSF to ensure that America will always lead the world in space exploration and scientific discoveries," he said. In an interview with SpaceNews in September, Culberson said his top priorities for NASA included accelerating development of the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket and Orion spacecraft as well as funding key space science missions. However, he was skeptical about NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission, which seeks to move a small asteroid into lunar orbit to be visited by astronauts in the 2020s. "It just doesn't, in my mind, make financial sense when NASA's money is so scarce and so hard to come by," he said in the interview. "I don't think it's productive to add another really extensive project to their plate when they're telling the scientific community they're short money to do top-priority missions like Europa." Culberson is perhaps best known for his advocacy for a mission to Europa, a large moon of Jupiter believed to have a liquid water ocean beneath its icy surface that may be able to support life. As a member of the CJS subcommittee, he worked to set aside funding for a Europa mission in recent appropriations bills, including $100 million in the fiscal year 2015 CJS appropriations bill passed by the House in May. NASA had requested only $15 million for Europa mission studies in its 2015 budget request. "It didn't have an advocate. It didn't have anybody pushing for it," Culberson said of Europa mission proposals in the September interview. "I knew it was the likeliest place to find life on another world. So that's sort of why I picked it up. Europa needed a friend." __ 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] Eight Billion 'Dark Asteroids' May Lurk in Oort Cloud
http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2014/12/eight-billion-dark-asteroids-may-lurk-oort-cloud Eight billion 'dark asteroids' may lurk in Oort cloud By Sid Perkins Science Magazine 4 December 2014 Our solar system's asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, may contain a few hundred thousand objects. But much farther away, in regions long presumed to be the realm of comets and other icy bodies, there could be billions of rocky orbs circling the sun, a new study suggests. Researchers used computer programs to simulate the fate of objects circling our young sun once its planetary disk was largely cleared of gas and dust. Gravitational interactions with planets over the subsequent 4.5 billion years caused some objects to crash into the sun and others to be flung out of the solar system altogether. But many of the objects were cast into exile in the Oort cloud, a spherical haze of objects that stretches far beyond Neptune and a good fraction of the way toward our nearest stellar neighbors. (The image above depicts the Oort cloud as compared with the solar system and the much nearer Kuiper belt of objects.) Of those deportees, about 4% came from within about 375 million kilometers of the sun, rendering them rock- or metal-rich bodies like asteroids rather than icy orbs like comets, the researchers report online ahead of print in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Previous observations suggest that the Oort cloud contains about 200 billion comets, the researchers note. If that's correct, the new results suggest that those comets are accompanied by about 8 billion asteroids. If one of those objects ever fell toward Earth, it would be tougher to spot than a comet (being much darker) and more difficult to divert than the typical near-Earth asteroid (as it would be traveling much faster). Don't fear, though: The team estimates that a planet-killing collision with such an object might happen only once every billion years or so. __ 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] Hayabusa 2 Update - December 5, 2014
http://global.jaxa.jp/press/2014/12/20141205_hayabusa2.html Asteroid Explorer "Hayabusa2" Completion of Critical Operation Phase December 5, 2014 (JST) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed the completion of a sequence of the important operations for the Asteroid Exploration "Hayabusa2" mission including the deployment of the horn part of the sampler that captures samples from the asteroid's surface, the release of the locks for the launch that ratchet the gimbal that controls the direction of the ion engine, and functional verification of the three-axis stabilization controls and the ground precision orbit determination system. With this confirmation, the critical operation phase* of the Hayabusa2 was completed. The sampler horn deployment was confirmed by images taken by the onboard small monitor camera that was manufactured and loaded onto the Hayabusa2 thanks to donations for the Hayabusa2 mission from many of you. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all of you again. (Please refer to the attachment for the images.) The explorer is now in a stable condition. The explorer will move to the initial functional verification operation phase to verify the function of the satellite onboard instruments for about three months. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all parties and personnel concerned for their support and cooperation with the Hayabusa2 launch and tracking control operations. In addition, we would also like to ask for your continued cooperation and support for the long-term Hayabusa2 space exploration mission. *1 Critical operation phase The critical operation phase is a period from the separation from the launch vehicle till the establishment of the stable operation in space including the deployment of the solar array paddles and verification of the attitude control system and tracking and control facility functions. __ 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] Procyon Update - December 4, 2014
http://global.jaxa.jp/press/2014/12/20141204_procyon.html Flight Status of Micro Deep-Space Explorer "PROCYON" December 4, 2014 (JST) The University of Tokyo Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) The University of Tokyo and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) received signals from the Micro deep-space explorer "PROCYON" at 8:51 p.m. on December 3, 2014 (Japan Standard Time), to confirm it had been inserted into the scheduled interplanetary orbit. The satellite is now in the initial operation phase. PROCYON was launched by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 26 as a secondary payload of the Asteroid Explorer "Hayabusa2" at 1:22:04 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2014 (JST) from the Tanegashima Space Center. Overview of the Micro Deep-space Explorer "PROCYON" Mission Outline Demonstration of micro-spacecraft bus system for deep space exploration including communication system and attitude and orbit control system. It will also demonstrate various deep space exploration technologies including asteroid close flyby observation. Size / Mass H 630 x W 550 x D 550 mm / Mass about 65 kg Development Organizations The University of Tokyo/JAXA Cooperative organization for operation Tokyo University of Science/Hokkaido University/Meisei University/Rikkyo University, and others __ 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] Finding organic compounds is not proof life has been found on Mars
http://tinyurl.com/m32oa36 __ 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] Eight Billion 'Dark Asteroids' May Lurk in OortCloud
Ron, List, > Don't fear, though: The team estimates > that a planet-killing collision with > such an object might happen only once > every billion years or so. I've got a well-known quote for you... > "You've gotta ask yourself one question: > 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Sterling Webb -- -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 6:35 PM To: Meteorite Mailing List Subject: [meteorite-list] Eight Billion 'Dark Asteroids' May Lurk in OortCloud http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2014/12/eight-billion-dark-asteroids-may-lu rk-oort-cloud Eight billion 'dark asteroids' may lurk in Oort cloud By Sid Perkins Science Magazine 4 December 2014 Our solar system's asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, may contain a few hundred thousand objects. But much farther away, in regions long presumed to be the realm of comets and other icy bodies, there could be billions of rocky orbs circling the sun, a new study suggests. Researchers used computer programs to simulate the fate of objects circling our young sun once its planetary disk was largely cleared of gas and dust. Gravitational interactions with planets over the subsequent 4.5 billion years caused some objects to crash into the sun and others to be flung out of the solar system altogether. But many of the objects were cast into exile in the Oort cloud, a spherical haze of objects that stretches far beyond Neptune and a good fraction of the way toward our nearest stellar neighbors. (The image above depicts the Oort cloud as compared with the solar system and the much nearer Kuiper belt of objects.) Of those deportees, about 4% came from within about 375 million kilometers of the sun, rendering them rock- or metal-rich bodies like asteroids rather than icy orbs like comets, the researchers report online ahead of print in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Previous observations suggest that the Oort cloud contains about 200 billion comets, the researchers note. If that's correct, the new results suggest that those comets are accompanied by about 8 billion asteroids. If one of those objects ever fell toward Earth, it would be tougher to spot than a comet (being much darker) and more difficult to divert than the typical near-Earth asteroid (as it would be traveling much faster). Don't fear, though: The team estimates that a planet-killing collision with such an object might happen only once every billion years or so. __ 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] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: JAH 766 Contributed by: Runar Sandnes http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=12/07/2014 __ 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
