[meteorite-list] APOD: 2003 October 1 - A Daytime Fireball Over South Wales
http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031001.html Title: APOD: 2003 October 1 - A Daytime Fireball Over South Wales Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 October 1 A Daytime Fireball Over South Wales Credit & Copyright: Jon Burnett Explanation: Jon Burnett, a teenager from South Wales, UK, was photographing some friends skateboarding last week when the sky did something very strange. High in the distance, a sofa-sized rock came hurtling into the nearby atmosphere of planet Earth and disintegrated. By diverting his camera, he was able to document this rare sky event and capture one of the more spectacular meteor images yet recorded. Roughly one minute later, he took another picture of the dispersing meteor trial. Bright fireballs occur over someplace on Earth nearly every day. A separate bolide, likely even more dramatic, struck India only a few days ago. Tomorrow's picture: the 1970s < | Archive | Index | Search | Calendar | Glossary | Education | About APOD | > Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
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[meteorite-list] Meteorites, not water, turned Mars red?
Please chek this new theory on why the red color of Mars. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/04/mars.color.reut/index.html http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4120 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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Re: [meteorite-list] Re: The Most Expensive Meteorite Ever Sold on eBay (Zagami Mars Meteorite)]
Linda, Thank you for your prompt response. Please take a look at the pdf file from the Mars Meteoritic Compendium 2003 regarding the Zagami meteorite. This file is both in the sell2all and NASA web pages, http://www.sell2all.com/mars/index1.htm and http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/antmet/mmc/zagami.pdf. If you read to the end of the article there you can find all about the age of this meteorite and it is not 1.3 billion years. This is a NASA document and it is in your web page, in the page you adversise the sell of this meteorite. So how is it that you advertise it as 1.3 billion years, yet qoute a NASA document in which the age is almost ten times less? Andres Posada Linda McClenny wrote: We have numerous published reports from different sources on the Zagami history, and they all say the age is 1.3 billion years of age. Thanks for your interest. Best Regards, Linda Linda McClenny Linda, Inc. 205-556-9537 office 205-553-0956 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Andres Posada To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: [Fwd: [meteorite-list] Re: The Most Expensive Meteorite Ever Sold on eBay (Zagami Mars Meteorite)] Ron Baalke wrote: > >LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Now is your chance to own a rare 1.3 > >Billion year old piece of the Red Planet! The largest known specimen in > >circulation (188 grams) of the famous Mars rock Zagami, is owned by a private > >individual > > Sounds like they're getting their Mars meteorites mixed up. Zagami is a > shergottite, which is 180 million years old. Nakhilites, another > type of Mars meteorite, are 1.3 billion years old. Zagami is the largest > single Mars meteorite stone at 18 kg, or 40 pounds, when it fell in 1962. > So, this 188 gram fragment is roughly 1/100th of the original main mass, > though still rather sizeable for a Mars meteorite. > > >Some estimates value this specimen at over $2,000,000. > > That translates to over $10,000/gram, which is extremely optimistic. > That is about 20 to 30 times the current market rate for Zagami. > > >Out of 22,000 meteorites known to man, only 13 are actually > >known to be "Martian." > > There are currently 28 known Mars meteorites. > > Ron Baalke > > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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Linda McClenny wrote: We have numerous published reports from different sources on the Zagami history, and they all say the age is 1.3 billion years of age. Thanks for your interest. Best Regards, Linda Linda McClenny Linda, Inc. 205-556-9537 office 205-553-0956 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Andres Posada To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: [Fwd: [meteorite-list] Re: The Most Expensive Meteorite Ever Sold on eBay (Zagami Mars Meteorite)] Ron Baalke wrote: > >LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Now is your chance to own a rare 1.3 > >Billion year old piece of the Red Planet! The largest known specimen in > >circulation (188 grams) of the famous Mars rock Zagami, is owned by a private > >individual > > Sounds like they're getting their Mars meteorites mixed up. Zagami is a > shergottite, which is 180 million years old. Nakhilites, another > type of Mars meteorite, are 1.3 billion years old. Zagami is the largest > single Mars meteorite stone at 18 kg, or 40 pounds, when it fell in 1962. > So, this 188 gram fragment is roughly 1/100th of the original main mass, > though still rather sizeable for a Mars meteorite. > > >Some estimates value this specimen at over $2,000,000. > > That translates to over $10,000/gram, which is extremely optimistic. > That is about 20 to 30 times the current market rate for Zagami. > > >Out of 22,000 meteorites known to man, only 13 are actually > >known to be "Martian." > > There are currently 28 known Mars meteorites. > > Ron Baalke > > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
