Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson stories
Well, don't tease us, you tell us! LOL. ;) Let me hazard some wild guesses. I will disclose that I know jack about Gold Basin except what the typical collector knows. I haven't read anything recently. Is it? Somebody found tektites associated with the area? New overlapping strewnfield find? New rules from BLM or state about hunting that area? A crazy local homeless person stumbled across the a lunar in the strewnfield? All sales of Gold Basin are hereby suspended until these questions are answered in an authoritative manner. 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 2/10/15, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Some very exciting news about the Gold Basin strewn field was made public, hopefully that announcement will be reciprocated here. Michael in so. Cal. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Sean T. Murray via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: I bet Johnno Cabassi has a few... But they will probably need to be moderated... Sean. -Original Message- From: John Lutzon via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 7:07 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Tucson stories Hello All, Any stories or tales from Tucson?? All best, John __ 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 __ 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] New fall, Nkayi Zimbabwe
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Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson stories ( Gold Basin news)
I agree with Michael. It was exciting news but I'll allow those associated with it to follow up Cheers John On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Likewise, it is not my story to tell, so I'll leave you with the basics: the strewn field has been extended by leaps and bounds, hopefully those involved will share the full story and pictures with us all soon! Michael in so. Cal. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com wrote: More than 15 years ago John Blennert predicted that the Gold Basin Strewn-field extends north into Nevada, and that the actual main-mass of that fall was still waiting to be found in Nevada. The Legend of the Nevada Gold Basin main-mass has become a holy grail in certain meteorite hunting circles. But the adventure for the hunt of that main mass can only be best told by the finders, and not by me. I too look forward to seeing this story in print some time soon. Bob V. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:Galactic Stone Ironworks via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date:Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:05 Subject:Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson stories Well, don't tease us, you tell us! LOL. ;) Let me hazard some wild guesses. I will disclose that I know jack about Gold Basin except what the typical collector knows. I haven't read anything recently. Is it? Somebody found tektites associated with the area? New overlapping strewnfield find? New rules from BLM or state about hunting that area? A crazy local homeless person stumbled across the a lunar in the strewnfield? All sales of Gold Basin are hereby suspended until these questions are answered in an authoritative manner. 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 2/10/15, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Some very exciting news about the Gold Basin strewn field was made public, hopefully that announcement will be reciprocated here. Michael in so. Cal. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Sean T. Murray via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: I bet Johnno Cabassi has a few... But they will probably need to be moderated... Sean. -Original Message- From: John Lutzon via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 7:07 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Tucson stories Hello All, Any stories or tales from Tucson?? All best, John __ 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 __ 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson stories ( Gold Basin news)
Likewise, it is not my story to tell, so I'll leave you with the basics: the strewn field has been extended by leaps and bounds, hopefully those involved will share the full story and pictures with us all soon! Michael in so. Cal. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com wrote: More than 15 years ago John Blennert predicted that the Gold Basin Strewn-field extends north into Nevada, and that the actual main-mass of that fall was still waiting to be found in Nevada. The Legend of the Nevada Gold Basin main-mass has become a holy grail in certain meteorite hunting circles. But the adventure for the hunt of that main mass can only be best told by the finders, and not by me. I too look forward to seeing this story in print some time soon. Bob V. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:Galactic Stone Ironworks via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date:Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:05 Subject:Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson stories Well, don't tease us, you tell us! LOL. ;) Let me hazard some wild guesses. I will disclose that I know jack about Gold Basin except what the typical collector knows. I haven't read anything recently. Is it? Somebody found tektites associated with the area? New overlapping strewnfield find? New rules from BLM or state about hunting that area? A crazy local homeless person stumbled across the a lunar in the strewnfield? All sales of Gold Basin are hereby suspended until these questions are answered in an authoritative manner. 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 2/10/15, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Some very exciting news about the Gold Basin strewn field was made public, hopefully that announcement will be reciprocated here. Michael in so. Cal. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Sean T. Murray via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: I bet Johnno Cabassi has a few... But they will probably need to be moderated... Sean. -Original Message- From: John Lutzon via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 7:07 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Tucson stories Hello All, Any stories or tales from Tucson?? All best, John __ 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 __ 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] Met Bulletin Update - Two Lunars and Four HED
Hi Bulletin Watchers, There are 6 new approvals from the NWA DCA. These include two lunars and four Vestans. Link : http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=%2Asfor=namesants=falls=valids=stype=containslrec=50map=gebrowse=country=Allsrt=namecateg=Allmblist=Allrect=phot=snew=2pnt=Normal%20tabledr=page=0 Best regards and Happy Huntings, 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: NWA 6704
Hello everyone, I have to raise some funds - expecting an new puppy in the coming Spring. For this I'm offering two very nice specimens of NWA 6704 that I purchased some years back from the Hupé's. -9.7 gram fragment -7.6 gram complete slice A label card has been lost for the slice (will come in the display case) but I assure you that they're both from the same source. :) I uploaded a video (available in HD) showing both of them: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2g21i2_meteorite-nwa-6704_school And some photos: http://i58.tinypic.com/2r3v0yd.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/5triw9.jpg http://i60.tinypic.com/15p1pn9.jpg http://i57.tinypic.com/243qjaf.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/2elh8jo.jpg $420 for both or make offer - preferably via paypal. Thank you -Melanie __ 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] Why Comets Are Like Deep Fried Ice Cream
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4480 Why Comets Are Like Deep Fried Ice Cream Jet Propulsion Laboratory February 10, 2015 --Studying comet composition helps explain how early Earth may have received water and organics. --New research used Himalaya, an icebox-like instrument. Astronomers tinkering with ice and organics in the lab may have discovered why comets are encased in a hard, outer crust. Using an icebox-like instrument nicknamed Himalaya, the researchers show that fluffy ice on the surface of a comet would crystalize and harden as the comet heads toward the sun and warms up. As the water-ice crystals form, becoming denser and more ordered, other molecules containing carbon would be expelled to the comet's surface. The result is a crunchy comet crust sprinkled with organic dust. A comet is like deep fried ice cream, said Murthy Gudipati of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, corresponding author of a recent study appearing in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. The crust is made of crystalline ice, while the interior is colder and more porous. The organics are like a final layer of chocolate on top. The lead author of the study is Antti Lignell, a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who formerly worked with Gudipati at JPL. Researchers already knew that comets have soft interiors and seemingly hard crusts. NASA's Deep Impact and the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft both inspected comets up close, finding evidence of soft, porous interiors. Last November, Rosetta's Philae probe bounced to a landing on the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, confirming that comets have a hard surface. The black, soot-like coats of comets, made up of organic molecules and dust, had also been seen before by the Deep Impact mission. But the exact composition of comet crust -- and how it forms -- remains unclear. In the new study, researchers turned to labs on Earth to put together a model of crystallizing comet crust. The experiments began with amorphous, or porous, ice -- the proposed composition of the chilliest of comets and icy moons. In this state, water vapor molecules are flash-frozen at extremely cold temperatures of around 30 Kelvin (minus 243 degrees Celsius, or minus 405 degrees Fahrenheit), sort of like Han Solo in the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back. Disorderly states are preserved: Water molecules are haphazardly mixed with other molecules, such as the organics, and remain frozen in that state. Amorphous ice is like cotton candy, explains Gudipati: light and fluffy and filled with pockets of space. On Earth, all ice is in the crystalline form. It's not cold enough to form amorphous ice on our planet. Even a handful of loose snow is in the crystalline form, but contains much smaller ice crystals than those in snowflakes. Gudipati and Lignell used their Himalaya cryostat instrument to slowly warm their amorphous ice mixtures from 30 Kelvin to 150 Kelvin (minus 123 degrees Celsius, or minus 190 degrees Fahrenheit), mimicking conditions a comet would experience as it journeys toward the sun. The ice had been infused with a type of organics, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which are seen everywhere in deep space. The results came as a surprise. The PAHs stuck together and were expelled from the ice host as it crystallized. This may be the first observation of molecules clustering together due to a phase transition of ice, and this certainly has many important consequences for the chemistry and physics of ice, said Lignell. With PAHs kicked out of the ice mixtures, the water molecules had room to link up and form the more tightly packed structures of crystalline ice. What we saw in the lab -- a crystalline comet crust with organics on top -- matches what has been suggested from observations in space, said Gudipati. Deep fried ice cream is really the perfect analogy, because the interior of the comets should still be very cold and contain the more porous, amorphous ice. The composition of comets is important to understanding how they might have delivered water and organics to our nascent, bubbling-hot Earth. New results from the Rosetta mission show that asteroids may have been the primary carriers of life's ingredients; however, the debate is ongoing and comets may have played a role. For Gudipati, comets are capsules containing clues not only to our planet's history but to the birth of our entire solar system. He said, It's beautiful to think about how far we have come in our understanding of comets. Future missions designed to bring cold samples of comets back to Earth could allow us to fully unravel their secrets. Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the U.S. contribution of the Rosetta
[meteorite-list] Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Completes 40, 000 Mars Orbits
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4478 NASA Spacecraft Completes 40,000 Mars Orbits Jet Propulsion Laboratory February 9, 2015 -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, at Mars since 2006, has now orbited the Red Planet more than 40,000 times -- The continuing mission studies the whole planet and has shown that Mars is diverse and dynamic NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passed a mission milestone of 40,000 orbits on Feb. 7, 2015, in its ninth year of returning information about the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, from equatorial to polar latitudes. The mission's potent science instruments and extended lifespan have revealed that Mars is a world more dynamic and diverse than was previously realized. Now in its fourth mission extension after a two-year prime mission, the orbiter is investigating seasonal and longer-term changes, including some warm-season flows that are the strongest evidence so far for liquid water on Mars today. The orbiter has returned 247 terabits of data, which is more than the combined total from every other mission that has ever departed Earth to visit another planet. It circles Mars at an altitude of about 186 miles (300 kilometers), on a near-polar pattern, about 12 times a day. In its 40,000 orbits, the spacecraft has flown nearly twice as far as the 310 million miles (500 million kilometers) it flew during its 2006 journey from Earth to Mars. The mission has illuminated three very different periods of Mars history. Its observations of the heavily cratered terrains of Mars, the oldest on the planet, show that different types of ancient watery environments formed water-related minerals. Some of these environments would have been more favorable for life than others. In more recent times, water appears to have cycled as a gas between polar ice deposits and lower-latitude deposits of ice and snow. Extensive layering in ice or rock probably took at least hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions of years to form. Like ice ages on Earth, the layering is linked to cyclic changes in the tilt of the planet's rotation axis and the changing intensity of sunlight near the poles. Mars' present climate is also dynamic, with volatile carbon dioxide and, just possibly, summertime liquid water modifying gullies and forming new streaks. With observations of new craters, avalanches and dust storms, the orbiter has shown a partially frozen world, but not frozen in time, as change continues today. In addition to accomplishing its own science achievements, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission provides communication relay for missions on the surface of Mars and evaluates potential landing site candidates for surface missions. Two other active NASA spacecraft are currently orbiting Mars -- Mars Odyssey since 2001, and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) since last year. Two NASA rovers -- Opportunity and Curiosity -- are active on the surface. These robotic missions and others in development are paving the way for human-crew Mars missions in the 2030s and beyond as part of NASA's Journey to Mars strategy. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the orbiter and collaborates with JPL to operate it. For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mro http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/ Media Contact Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov 2015-054 __ 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: January 28 - February 3, 2015
http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status.html#opportunity OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Rover Continues Driving While Team Works on Rover Memory Issues - sols 3915-3921, January 28, 2015-February 3, 2015: Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards Marathon Valley, a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 656 feet (200 meters) away. The project is operating the rover without using the Flash storage system to avoid resets associated with a corrupted portion of Flash. The project is preparing to mask off the troubled sector of Flash and resume using the remainder of the Flash file system. Opportunity drove on Sols 3916, 3918 and 3921 (Jan. 29, Jan. 31 and Feb. 3, 2015), totaling about 282 feet (86 meters). The operations strategy has been to perform pre-drive targeted imaging, then drive on the first sol of a multi-sol plan, collecting post-drive Panoramic Camera (Pancam) and Navigation Camera (Navcam) imagery in the forward direction for data return that evening. Then, on the next sol, complete the 360-degree Navcam panorama with images in the rearward direction. As of Sol 3921 (Feb. 3, 2015), the solar array energy production was 484 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.949 and a solar array dust factor of 0.632. Total odometry is 26.08 miles (41.97 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] AD - 350g. Canyon Diablo, Adrar Chiriet Mainmass at Ebay for $1.99
Hello List, i have a nice big Canyon Diablo, 350g. and the mainmass of Adrar Chiriet, Niger at Ebay now! (And some more). Please take a look: http://www.ebay.com/sch/gipometeorite/m.html?item=171675913380ssPageName=ADME%3AL%3ALCA%3AUS%3A1123rt=nc_trksid=p2047675.l2562 Many thanks for viewing, best greetings Carsten Giessler __ 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: Johnstown Contributed by: Paul Swartz http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=02/11/2015 __ 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
