Re: [meteorite-list] Local to Las Vegas expert needed to rewiew a find.
Like all the others say, it is real hard to get classified nowadays. I can get it verified with an XRF gun, and I am a local Vegas resident. David Libuszowski On Monday, September 14, 2015 2:47 PM, MEM via Meteorite-list wrote: I am in contact with a Las Vegas resident who has, by all appearances fair-sized, fresh chondrite. If you are willing and able to inspect in person and get her stone into the system, please send me your contact information for forwarding. Pics on request. Regards, Elton __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Local to Las Vegas expert needed to rewiew a find.
I agree with Michael. I frequently get similar requests from people needing their "chondrite" authenticated and "placed into the system". Not much of a problem getting their stone identified, but the owners are becoming more and more dismayed by the increasing difficulty finding someone to classify a chondrite, not to mention the expense. The second part of that request is getting harder and harder to guarantee to a prospective client. Hey Elton, if you get lucky and find a benefactor that can get " a stone into the system" on the cheap, then please share that with me. I've got a long line of orphaned OCs that need to be classified, and to go into the MetBull Database. Bob V. On Mon, 9/14/15, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list wrote: Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Local to Las Vegas expert needed to rewiew a find. To: "MEM" Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" Date: Monday, September 14, 2015, 2:59 PM An in person inspection is easy to promise, but unless one is an accredited lab doing the classification then there can be no guarantees made to that regard. I'm a few hours from Vegas and get that way often. Feel free to email me some picts and if I can I'll take a look some day, but I know there are several Vegas residents who would also know what they're looking at. Michael in so. Cal. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, MEM via Meteorite-list wrote: > I am in contact with a Las Vegas resident who has, by all appearances > fair-sized, fresh chondrite. If you are willing and able to inspect in person and get her stone into the system, please send me your contact information for forwarding. Pics on request. > > Regards, > Elton > __ > __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] University of Arizona Student Sues School After 270-Pound Meteorite Crushes His Hand
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/09/12/university-arizona-student-sues-school-after-270-pound-meteorite-crushes-his-hand/72081726/ University of Arizona student sues school after 270-pound meteorite crushes his hand Anne Ryman The Republic September 13, 2015 Lawsuit contends the 270-pound meteorite was displayed "unstable, precarious and unreasonably dangerous" way. Story Highlights * UA student suing after hand is crushed by a meteorite on display * Suit accuses Arizona Board of Regents and employees of negligence * Suit says student is no longer able to play the guitar A University of Arizona student is suing after he says a 270-pound meteorite toppled over at a university museum and crushed his hand, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this week in Pima County Superior Court. The civil suit says freshman Grant Black was performing community-service work in November 2014 and he tried to move a piece of the Canyon Diablo meteorite on display at the UA's Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium. The suit says the center encouraged visitors to touch and interact with the space rock. The rock fell, crushing Black's hand. Black's pinkie had to be amputated. His ring finger was reconstructed but is paralyzed and frozen into a hook shape, according to a notice of claim filed this year. Black was an avid Spanish-classical guitarist, the claim said, and can no longer play the instrument. "This is a deep loss for him. He identified as a musician, and that part of him is now gone," the claim said. The lawsuit contends the meteorite was displayed in an "unstable, precarious and unreasonably dangerous" way on a tripod that was not anchored to the ground. The suit contends the Arizona Board of Regents, who oversee the state universities, and their employees, "could have, should have, properly safeguarded, warned or remedied against the condition." The suit requests payment for damages and other relief. Several museums have pieces of Canyon Diablo meteorites, which created the Meteor Crater near Flagstaff about 50,000 years ago. Regents Spokeswoman Sarah Harper and UA Spokesman Chris Sigurdson both declined comment, saying the regents and the university don't comment on pending litigation. Black's attorney, Dev Sethi, confirmed that a lawsuit has been filed, but had no other comment. __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 Odyssey THEMIS Images: September 7-11, 2015
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES September 7-11, 2015 o Iani Chaos - False Color (07 September 2015) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20150907a o Moreux Crater - False Color (08 September 2015) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20150908a o Aureum Chaos - False Color (09 September 2015) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20150909a o Coprates Chasma - False Color (10 September 2015) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20150910a o Deuteronilus Mensae - False Color (11 September 2015) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20150911a All of the THEMIS images are archive here: http://themis.asu.edu/latest.html NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in co.oration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4716 Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes Jet Propulsion Laboratory September 11, 2015 Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock. A panorama from Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) that includes a ridge made of this sandstone is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19818 This sandstone outcrop -- part of a geological layer that Curiosity's science team calls the Stimson unit -- has a structure called crossbedding on a large scale that the team has interpreted as deposits of sand dunes formed by wind. Similar-looking petrified sand dunes are common in the U.S. Southwest. Geometry and orientation of the crossbedding give information about the directions of the winds that produced the dunes. The Stimson unit overlies a layer of mudstone that was deposited in a lake environment. Curiosity has been examining successively higher and younger layers of Mount Sharp, starting with the mudstone at the mountain's base, for evidence about changes in the area's ancient environment. The dozens of individual Mastcam images combined into this panorama were taken on Aug. 27, 2015. Curiosity has driven about 103 yards (94 meters) in the subsequent two weeks, generally southward. Outcrops of the Stimson unit sandstone are still accessible to the rover, and researchers plan to use the rover to collect and analyze a drilled sample of Stimson unit sandstone this month. Curiosity has been working on Mars since early August 2012. It reached the base of Mount Sharp last year after fruitfully investigating outcrops closer to its landing site and then trekking to the mountain. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover's Mastcam. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. For more information about Curiosity, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/msl http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity Media Contact Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo NASA Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 / 202-358-1077 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov / laura.l.canti...@nasa.gov 2015-296 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 - September 2-9, 2015
http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status.html#opportunity OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Team Continues to Operate Rover in RAM Mode - sols 4126-4133, September 02, 2015-September 09, 2015: Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mode (not using Flash for data storage). On Sol 4127 (Sept. 3, 2015), Opportunity bumped just 26 inches (65 centimeters) towards the surface target, 'Pvt. Silas Goodrich' to begin an in-situ (contact) science campaign. On Sols 4130 and 4131 (Sept. 6 and Sept. 7, 2015), the rover conducted a 2-sol robotic arm activity. On the first sol, the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) was placed on the target for an overnight integration. On the second sol, the Microscopic Imager (MI) was used to collect an extensive mosaic of the surface target. Flash Bank 7 continues to be readout and downlink as part of the ongoing diagnostics investigation of Flash memory. Other than Flash, Opportunity is in good health. As of Sol 4133 (Sept. 9, 2015), the solar array energy production was 356 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.631 and a solar array dust factor of 0.562. Total odometry is (26.42 miles) 42.52 kilometers, more than a marathon. __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Send me a photo too
I need an excuse to go to. Las Vegas Sent from my iPhone __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Local to Las Vegas expert needed to rewiew a find.
An in person inspection is easy to promise, but unless one is an accredited lab doing the classification then there can be no guarantees made to that regard. I'm a few hours from Vegas and get that way often. Feel free to email me some picts and if I can I'll take a look some day, but I know there are several Vegas residents who would also know what they're looking at. Michael in so. Cal. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, MEM via Meteorite-list wrote: > I am in contact with a Las Vegas resident who has, by all appearances > fair-sized, fresh chondrite. If you are willing and able to inspect in > person and get her stone into the system, please send me your contact > information for forwarding. Pics on request. > > Regards, > Elton > __ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Local to Las Vegas expert needed to rewiew a find.
I am in contact with a Las Vegas resident who has, by all appearances fair-sized, fresh chondrite. If you are willing and able to inspect in person and get her stone into the system, please send me your contact information for forwarding. Pics on request. Regards, Elton __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 Some new meteorites available
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: ALH 85003 Contributed by: AMN http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=09/14/2015 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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
