[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Tatahouine Contributed by: TGMS17 http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=04/04/2017 __ 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 - Must See - Auctions Ending
Dear List Member, Please take a look at my no reserve auctions ending this evening and tomorrow night. You will find some nice NWA 5000 specimens going at very good prices while they last. Link to all auctions: http://www.ebay.com/sch/merchant/ancientechoesartifacts NWA 5000 Specimens Ending At Auction This Evening -NO RESERVE! NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite .784 grams - Excellent breccia: http://www.ebay.com/itm/142329404159?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite .620 grams - Crusted: http://www.ebay.com/itm/142329402948?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite .510 grams - Clean gabbro: http://www.ebay.com/itm/201871013597?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite .452 grams - Clast -rich: http://www.ebay.com/itm/14232930?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite .250 grams - Metal in gabbro: http://www.ebay.com/itm/142329398492?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite 1.0 grams - Pure cutting dust! http://www.ebay.com/itm/201871008850?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Specimens Ending At Auction Tomorrow Night - NO RESERVE! NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite 1.024 grams - OVER A GRAM: http://www.ebay.com/itm/201872427609?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite .800 grams - Fantastic thin cut tile: http://www.ebay.com/itm/142330436058?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite .642 grams - Wow - Must See: http://www.ebay.com/itm/201872425298?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite .422 grams - Great Specimen: http://www.ebay.com/itm/201872424632?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite 1.0 grams - Pure cutting dust! http://www.ebay.com/itm/201872423407?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Thank you for looking, Best Regards, Adam Hupe Team LunarRock IMCA 2185 __ 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] Need large and ugly Sikhote Alin
Hello everyone, I have a client that needs some large and ugly (read that cheap) Sikhote Alin to cut into slices and large blocks. Minimum size required for blocks in 5cm x 5cm x 5cm (that is cm and not mm). Since this is for cutting, will accept offers for shrapnel as well as individuals. Please let me know what you may have available and provide dimensions, weight and price. After reviewing, I will ask for pictures. Thanks for your help, Mendy Ouzillou Cell: +1-512-554-9987 IMCA #8395 __ 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] NASA Selects CubeSat, SmallSat Mission Concept Studies
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6791 NASA Selects CubeSat, SmallSat Mission Concept Studies Jet Propulsion Laboratory March 23, 2017 NASA has selected 10 studies under the Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies (PSDS3) program to develop mission concepts using small satellites to investigate Venus, Earth's moon, asteroids, Mars and the outer planets. For these studies, small satellites are defined as less than 180 kilograms in mass (about 400 pounds). CubeSats are built to standard specifications of 1 unit (U), which is equal to about 4x4x4 inches (10x10x10 centimeters). They often are launched into orbit as auxiliary payloads, significantly reducing costs. "These small but mighty satellites have the potential to enable transformational science," said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "They will provide valuable information to assist in planning future Announcements of Opportunity, and to guide NASA's development of small spacecraft technologies for deep space science investigation." NASA's Science Mission Directorate is developing a small satellite strategy, with the goal of identifying high-priority science objectives in each discipline that can be addressed with CubeSats and SmallSats, managed for appropriate cost and risk. This multi-disciplinary approach will leverage and partner with the growing commercial sector to collaboratively drive instrument and sensor innovation. The PSDS3 awardees were recognized this week at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Society Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. The total value of the awards is $3.6 million. The recipients are: Venus Christophe Sotin, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California: Cupid's Arrow, a 66-pound (30-kilogram) probe to measure noble gases and their isotopes to investigate the geological evolution of Venus and why Venus and Earth have evolved so differently. Valeria Cottini, University of Maryland, College Park: CubeSat UV Experiment (CUVE), a 12-unit CubeSat orbiter to measure ultraviolet absorption and nightglow emissions to understand Venus' atmospheric dynamics. Moon Suzanne Romaine, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts: CubeSat X-ray Telescope (CubeX), a 12-unit CubeSat to map the elemental composition mapping of airless bodies such as the moon, to understand their formation and evolutionary history using X-ray pulsar timing for deep space navigation. Timothy Stubbs, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland: Bi-sat Observations of the Lunar Atmosphere above Swirls (BOLAS), tethered 12-unit CubeSats to investigate the lunar hydrogen cycle by simultaneously measuring electromagnetic fields near the surface of the moon, and incoming solar winds high above. Asteroids Jeffrey Plescia, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland: Asteroid Probe Experiment (APEX), a SmallSat with a deployable seismometer to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis and directly explore its interior structure, surface properties, and rotational state. Benton Clark, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado: CubeSat Asteroid Encounters for Science and Reconnaissance (CAESAR), a constellation of 6-unit CubeSats to evaluate the bulk properties of asteroids to assess their physical structure, and to provide constraints on their formation and evolution. Mars David Minton, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana: Chariot to the Moons of Mars, a 12-unit CubeSat with a deployable drag skirt to produce high-resolution imagery and surface material composition of Phobos and Deimos, to help understand how they were formed. Anthony Colaprete, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California: Aeolus, a 24-unit CubeSat to directly measure vertically-resolved global winds to help determine the global energy balance at Mars and understand daily climate variability. Icy Bodies and Outer Planets Kunio Sayanagi, Hampton University, Virginia: Small Next-generation Atmospheric Probe (SNAP), an atmospheric entry probe to measure vertical cloud structure, stratification, and winds to help understand the chemical and physical processes that shape the atmosphere of Uranus. Robert Ebert, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio: JUpiter MagnetosPheric boundary ExploreR (JUMPER), a SmallSat to explore Jupiter's magnetosphere, including characterizing the solar wind upstream of the magnetosphere to provide science context for future missions such as the Europa Clipper. For more information about NASA's CubeSat activities, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cubesats/index.html News Media Contact Andrew Good Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-2433 andrew.c.g...@jpl.nasa.gov 2017-085 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www
[meteorite-list] Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50, 000 Orbits (MRO)
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6800 Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50,000 Orbits Jet Propulsion Laboratory March 29, 2017 The most data-productive spacecraft yet at Mars swept past its 50,000th orbit this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished by a camera at the Red Planet. In addition, the spacecraft -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) -- recently aided preparations for NASA's next mission to Mars, the InSight lander. Insight will launch next year on a mission to study the planet's deep interior. Meanwhile, the orbiter continues diverse science observations of Mars and communications-relay service for two active Mars rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity. MRO's Context Camera (CTX) exploits a sweet spot in the balance between resolution and image file size. With a resolution of about 20 feet (6 meters) per pixel in images of the Martian surface, it has provided a library of images now covering 99.1 percent of Mars. That is approximately equivalent to the land area of Earth. No other camera ever sent to Mars has photographed so much of the planet in such high resolution. The Context Camera has taken about 90,000 images since the spacecraft began examining Mars from orbit in late 2006. Each one reveals shapes of features down to sizes smaller than a tennis court, in a swath of ground about 18.6 miles (30 kilometers) wide. "Reaching 99.1-percent coverage has been tricky because a number of factors, including weather conditions, coordination with other instruments, downlink limitations, and orbital constraints, tend to limit where we can image and when," said Context Camera Team Leader Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego. In addition to observing nearly the entire planet at least once, the Context Camera has observed 60.4 percent of the planet more than once. These observations aid science directly and also certify the safety of future landing sites. Malin said, "Single coverage provides a baseline we can use for comparison with future observations, as we look for changes. Re-imaging areas serves two functions: looking for changes and acquiring stereoscopic views from which we can make topographic maps." A dramatic type of change the Context Camera has documented more than 200 times is a fresh impact crater appearing between the times of two observations. These images enabled scientists to calculate the rate at which small asteroids, or bits of comets, are colliding with Mars. Some of the fresh impacts reveal white material interpreted as water ice. The latitudes and estimated depths of the ice-exposing craters provide evidence about the distribution of buried ice near the surface. MRO's Shallow Radar has found ice farther underground, but this very shallow ice would go undetected if not for its exposure by impacts. One of MRO's other cameras, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), can zoom in on the new impact craters found by the Context Camera. For some of these craters, HiRISE and MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars have confirmed the presence of water ice. However, even though MRO has returned more than 300 terabits of science data, the much higher spatial resolution of HiRISE has limited its coverage of Mars' surface to about three percent. A third MRO camera, the Mars Color Imager, observes almost the entire planet every day to track weather change. Another instrument, the Mars Climate Sounder, records vertical profiles of the atmosphere's temperatures and suspended particles. The spacecraft was launched Aug. 12, 2005. It entered an elongated orbit of Mars in March 2006, then spent several months using friction with Mars' upper atmosphere to revise its orbit. Since beginning its science operations in November 2006, MRO has been flying near-polar orbits lasting about two hours, at altitudes from 155 to 196 miles (250 to 316 kilometers). The mission completed its 50,000th orbit on Monday, March 27. "After 11 and a half years in flight, the spacecraft is healthy and remains fully functional," said MRO Project Manager Dan Johnston at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "It's a marvelous vehicle that we expect will serve the Mars Exploration Program and Mars science for many more years to come." On March 22, the mission made the latest adjustment to the orbit, with a 45.1-second burn of six intermediate-size rocket engines, each of which provides 5 pounds (22 newtons) of thrust. This maneuver revised the orbit orientation, so that the spacecraft can be at the right place at the right time, on Nov. 26, 2018, to receive critical radio transmissions from NASA's InSight Mars lander as it descends to the surface. MRO has already provided more than 60 images from HiRISE for advance analysis of the landing region for InSight. In a broad plain of the Elysium Planitia region of equatorial Mars, InSight
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