[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Naryilco Contributed by: John Divelbiss http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=10/25/2016 __ 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] Another Native American Myth of teh Holocene Start Impact Events
MEWAN ACCOUNT OF THE HOLOCENE STAR IMPACT EVENTS >From "The Dawn of the World", by C. Hart Merriam, 1910; http://www.3rocks.org/publications/Dawn ... _World.pdf "These tales were told me by the Indians of a single stock, the Mewan, the tribes of which are confined to central California and have no known relatives in any part of the world. They have been little visited by ethnologists and during the few years that have passed since the tales were collected, several of the tribes have become extinct. "The myths are related by the old people after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremonial roundhouse and alwaysmat night by the dim light of a small flickering fire. They constitute the religious history of the tribe, and from time immemorial have been handed down by word of mouth; from generation to generation they have been repeated, without loss and without addition." Four different peoples' traditions were given in the book, all of whom had related languages by this point in time. The book is difficult to read, as sometimes the terms sometimes translated, other times not. I am sure it will find popularity with the fringe, as it mentions "star women", who they will undoubtedly understand as "ancient aliens", and is located near Mount Shasta. KE'-LOK AND HIS ROUND-HOUSE Ke'-lok and his Han-na'-boo [Note that in the following, Wek'-wek, O-let'-te, and Ke'lok all become celestial beings.] When Wek'-wek and O-let'-te were out hunting one day they went to Tah-lah'-wit the North and came to a rocky hill where they saw a great and powerful giant named Ke'-lok, sitting by his han-na'-boo or roundhouse. Wek'-wek flew close to him and saw him well. That night, when they had gone home, Wek'-wek said to O-let'-te, "Grandfather, I want to play al'-leh (the hand-game) with Ke'-lok." 11 When O-let'-te heard Wek'-wek say he wanted to play the hand-game with Ke'-lok, O-let'-te laughed and said, "You! play hand-game with the Giant Ke'-lok!" "Yes," answered Wek'-wek, "I want to play hand-game with Ke'-lok." Then his grandfather told him that Ke'-lok was his elder brother. "All right," said Wek'-wek, "I'm going to play the hand-game with my brother." KE'-LOK'S PLACE WAS AT TAH-LAH'-WIT, THE NORTH. WHEN WEK'-WEK SET OUT TO GO THERE, HIS GRANDFATHER O-LET'-TE HAD TOLD HIM TO PLUCK OUT AND TAKE WITH HIM ONE OF HIS FATHER'S LONG WING-FEATHERS AND STAND IT UP ON TOP OF KE'-LOK'S ROUND-HOUSE SO IT COULD BE SEEN A LONG WAY OFF. O-LET'-TE SAID THE FEATHER WOULD STAND SO LONG AS WEK'WEK WAS ALIVE, BUT IF HE WAS KILLED IT WOULD FALL. [This "feather" was most likely a comet's tail. Note that Ke'lok's round house was in Tah-lah-wit, the north. This comet was likely different than Comet Encke; perhaps another chunk of Comet Giacobini-Zinner.] [THE FIRST IMPACT] After a while Wek'-wek arrived at Ke'-lok's round house, and when Ke'-lok came out, said to him, "Brother, I have come to play hand-game with you." "All right," answered Ke'-lok, and he at once built a fire and put eight round rocks in it and heated them until they were red hot. Then Ke'lok said, "My young brother, you begin first." "No," replied Wek'-wek, "I want to see you play first; you begin." "All right," said Ke'-lok, and he immediately sprang up and darted up into the sky, for he was great and powerful and could do all things. As Ke'lok went up into th4e sky he made a loud noise. Then he came down in a zig-zag course, and as he came down he sang a song. Then Wek'-wek began to throw hot rocks at him but he purposely missed him, for he did not want to kill his brother. His grandfather O-let'-te the Coyote-man, called out to Wek'-wek from the south that if he hit Ke'-lok in his body it would not kill him, but that his heart (wus'-ke) was in his arm, under a white spot on the underside of the arm, and that if he hit that spot it would kill him; that was the only place on his body where a blow would kill him. Wek'-wek answered, "I can easily hit that, but I don't want to kill him." So he threw all the hot stones but he took care not to hit the white spot under Ke'lok's arm. When Wek'-wek had fired all the rocks he picked them up and put them back in the fire to heat again. Then it was Ke'-lok's turn. When Ke'-lok was ready, Wek'-wek said, "All right, I will go now," and he shot up into the sky making a great noise, just as Ke'-lok had done. Then Wek'-wek came down slowly, singing a song, and came toward Ke'-lok's roundhouse. Then Ke'-lok began to throw the hot rocks at him and tried hard to hit him. But Wek'-wek dodged them easily and called out to O-let'-te his grandfather: "He can't hit me unless I let him see me - let him hit me"- for he thought he would not really be killed, believing that the magic of O-let'-te would keep him alive. So Wek'-wek let Ke'-lok hit him with the last rock. Ke'-lok did hit him and he fell dead. Then Ke'-lok picked him up and hung him on his round-house. [THE SECOND IMPACT] While the hand-game
[meteorite-list] AD-No Reserve Auctions Ending W/NWA5000 SLice Over A Gram!
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[meteorite-list] Computing Glitch May Have Doomed Schiaparelli Mars Lander
http://www.nature.com/news/computing-glitch-may-have-doomed-mars-lander-1.20861 Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander Researchers sift through clues after Schiaparelli crash in hopes of averting mistakes in 2020 mission. Elizabeth Gibney Nature 25 October 2016 Photos of a huge circle of churned-up Martian soil leave few doubts: a European Space Agency (ESA) probe that was supposed to test landing technology on Mars crashed into the red planet instead, and may have exploded on impact. The events of 19 October may be painful for ESA scientists to recall, but they will now have to relive them over and over again in computer simulations. The lander, called Schiaparelli, was part of ESA's ExoMars mission, which is being conducted jointly with the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos. It was a prelude to a planned 2020 mission, when researchers aim to land a much larger scientific station and rover on Mars, which will drill up to 2-metres down to look for signs of ancient life in the planet's soil. Figuring out Schiaparelli's faults and rectifying them is a priority, says Jorge Vago, project scientist for ExoMars. "That's super important. I think it's on everybody's mind." Anatomy of a crash Unlike the British-led and ESA-operated Beagle 2 mission, which disappeared during its landing on Mars on Christmas Day 2003, Schiaparelli sent data to its mother ship during its descent. Preliminary analysis suggests that the lander began the manoeuvre flawlessly, braking against the planet's atmosphere and deploying its parachute. But at 4 minutes and 41 seconds into an almost 6-minute fall, something went wrong. The lander's heat shield and parachute ejected ahead of time, says Vago. Then thrusters, designed to decelerate the craft for 30 seconds until it was metres off the ground, engaged for only around 3 seconds before they were commanded to switch off, because the lander's computer thought it was on the ground. The lander even switched on its suite of instruments, ready to record Mars' weather and electrical field, although they did not collect data. "My guess is that at that point we were still too high. And the most likely scenario is that, from then, we just dropped to the surface," says Vago. The craft probably fell from a height of between 2 and 4 kilometres before slamming into the ground at more than 300 kilometres per hour, according to estimates based on images of the probe's likely crash site, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on 20 October. The most likely culprit is a flaw in the craft's software or a problem in merging the data coming from different sensors, which may have led the craft to believe it was lower in altitude than it really was, says Andrea Accomazzo, ESA's head of solar and planetary missions. Accomazzo says that this is a hunch; he is reluctant to diagnose the fault before a full post-mortem has been carried out. But if he is right, that is both bad and good news. European-designed computing, software and sensors are among the elements of the lander that are to be reused on the ExoMars 2020 landing system, which, unlike Schiaparelli, will involve a mixture of European and Russian technology. But software glitches should be easier to fix than a fundamental problem with the landing hardware, which ESA scientists say seems to have passed its test with flying colours. "If we have a serious technological issue, then it's different, then we have to re-evaluate carefully. But I don't expect it to be the case," says Accomazzo. The ExoMars team will try to replicate the mistake using a virtual landing system designed to simulate the lander's hardware and software, says Vago, to make sure that scientists understand and can deal with the issue before redesigning any aspects of ExoMars 2020. 2020 vision The rover mission has already been delayed by two years, owing to hold-ups on both Russian and European sides, but Vago believes that making tweaks to its design will not push the mission back. "At this point, no one wants to think about flipping to 2022. It was painful enough to go from 2018 to 2020," he says. The 2020 mission still has a budget shortfall of around 300 million Euros (US$326 million), which ESA will request from European Union member states at a meeting of ministers in December. Asked at a press briefing on 20 October whether Schiaparelli's failure would jeopardize the mission, ESA director general Johann-Dietrich Worner said it wouldn't have any impact. "We have the function which we need for the 2020 mission, so we don't have to convince them, we just have to show them," he told reporters. But Vago is more pragmatic. "It would have been much nicer to be able to go to the ministers with a mission where both elements had performed flawlessly." ESA is keen to stress that overall, the ExoMars mission can be seen as a triumph: Schiaparelli sent back test data from the majority of its descent, and its
[meteorite-list] Siberia, Russia Bolide 25OCT2016 w/ video
List, Siberia, Russia Bolide 25OCT2016 w/ video http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2016/10/ust-kut-russia-bolide-meteor-25oct2016.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/ __ 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
