[meteorite-list] Pallasovka pallasite
Hi, Can anyone comment on the stability of the Pallasovka pallasites? Andrey's from Ylamaa, Finland, seems to have quite a nice selection of specimens being listed on eBay. Thanks in advance for any useful comments. Joseph Murakami Honolulu __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Fukang
Just a neat pix of Fukang pallasite I found on this site: http://dolphingaze.blogspot.com/2006/01/work.html Joseph Honolulu __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Anti-rust
Heres a bit of info while I was investigating anti-rust.. The vapor emitters are fascinating, but how about for our open-air specimens on displays?? This may be prohibitively costlyIll have to await their reply to my inquiries. This system is for 4WDs, SUV, autos, but I imagine it might be adaptable for our larger meteorites. Anyone out there with rusty 300 lb Campos?? Joseph Honolulu http://www.counteractrust.com/ The CounterAct electronic rust prevention system uses a process called 'capacitive coupling' to apply a measurable current to every metallic component of a vehicle that's earthed to the battery. A small unit, usually mounted on the firewall, detects the amount of power required to create an electrostatic field that will keep the metal structure electron-rich and then provides that power, reducing the ion mobility that's the basis of the corrosion process, The unit is fed from the vehicle's battery, drawing about as much current as an LCD clock. So the system operates by applying one of the principles of electrochemistry - that an oxidation reaction can be slowed or retarded by creating a surplus of electrons to the metal from a supplementary source.
RE: [meteorite-list] Automatic Desiccator Cabinets
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Mason Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Automatic Desiccator Cabinets Dear Ryan, A suggestion you might consider. Don't spend the money on a cabinet. Use your existing display cabinet and place an Emitter in a non-ventilated housing. Depending on cubic foot area of your cabinet there is an Emitter to fit your need. Send for our catalog. Military approved NSN#6850-01-406-2060 and NSA#6850-01-408-9025, FDA, USDA approved Bill Mason Okay,...here's another question. How do emitters work?? Do they also lay down a film on glass surfaces in display cabinets? Also, I've heard that new auto rust-proofing includes a charge gizmo which electrifies the frame so that rusting doesn't start. How does that work?...and do folks on the list feel there might be application for some of our larger irons?? Joseph Honolulu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 9:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [meteorite-list] Automatic Desiccator Cabinets Hello List, Does anyone have information on auto desiccator cabinets that would be suitable for storing meteorites in? Which brand, ect. would you recommend? I have been looking at the Secador 4.0 which seems to be a good cabinet for this purpose. Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Ryan __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology?
I would advocate that we on the list clarify the use of the term 'Martian meteorite' or 'lunar meteorite' as those bits of Mars or the moon transported here to Earth descending through our atmosphere as we've been using these terms all along. This is as versus 'Mars meteorite' or 'Moon meteorite' as those specimens found on Mars or the Moon. Any one know an already established convention??? Otherwise, the semantics gets muddled... Joseph Honolulu - Original Message - From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology? Alan Rubin and I advocated calling all of these things meteorites no matter what body they were found on. Our definition was as follows, quoting from the article: A meteorite is a natural solid object that was transported by natural means from the body on which it formed to a region outside the dominant gravitational influence of that body and was later accreted by a natural body larger than itself. Our exception to this rule is: Meteorites accreting to a body lose their status as individual meteorites if the rocks into which they are incorporated subsequently become meteorites themselves. This means that a CM clast in an H chondrite that fell in Africa is not itself a meteorite... only the H chondrite is. Hadley Rille and Bench Crater ARE meteorites; however, had they been found as clasts in lunar meteorites, they would not be meteorites, and would not be given their own names by the nomenclature committee. Everybody follow this? I thought not. All of these statements are the opinion of just Alan and myself. There are no widely accepted definitions of meteorite. But since nobody else has ever tried to define the word like we did, I guess we get the last word for now. -jeff At 02:05 PM 1/15/2003, you wrote: Hi Tracy, What would be the correct thing to call an impactor like Hadley Rille or Bench Crater? I gather that 'meteorite' refers only to things that impact Earth; how about things that hit other planets? On this list I've seen the words lunaite and lunarite. I've always assumed the former refers to a piece of the Moon found on earth (lunar meteorite), and the latter refers to a piece of an asteroid found on the Moon (e.g. Hadley Rille). I guess it's a little confusing given that the two words only differ by one letter. --Rob __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Dr. Jeffrey N. Grossman Chair, Meteorite Nomenclature Committee (Meteoritical Society) US Geological Survey 954 National Center Reston, VA 20192, USA Phone: (703) 648-6184 fax: (703) 648-6383 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Asteroid?
Maybe it was a medical problem, amaurosis fugax, which is a transient ischemic attack or ministroke, classically a dark curtain that falls across both visual fields but sometimes is described as everything getting dark. Of course a pre-syncopal or near-faint episode can also present similarly... Just a thought from an M.D. ... Did others experience this episode with you?? Joseph Honolulu - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Asteroid? Hello List, I want to ask a weird question. I can't give an exact date, all I can tell you is it was in April or may of this year on a week day. At about 2:30 or 3:00 in the afternoon in Chandler AZ, I was waiting for my wife and child to get out of school (wife was an aid). I was sitting in my car and there was teachers and students everywhere. For a split second the hole area got darker like we were in a big shadow. It was like a large dark cloud passed over. It was probably a shadow of a plane, and since it had just passed in front of the Sun, it would be very hard to see from the ground due to the Sun's overbearing glare. Ron Baalke __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] poem
STARDUST AND MOON To touch Stardust, I promised Ms. Dame, To taste the Moon, I promised Ms. Coon, These girls, these twins with differing names Cared not for me, but just the Game What fantastic promises, its just the same, Preposterous, ridiculous, Im so insane! Its all the same, they told me too! The skys the sky and it just wont Fall, The heavens beyond your puny reach, Go beckon the Stars and Moon to within our reach, To play with us and make us smile, We dont mind, itll be Worth While!! I felt real flushed, I didnt feel tall, Those smiling lips, those beckoning hips, Just how to keep my promises to all? But how indeed to meet my call? We know, we know, we who know KNOW, How indeed to meet my call? The lips, the hips, ...Yes, make me stand tall. My quest was ended, this riddles answered, Thesegifts from heaven left hidden and scattered, Til one day these stones, thesestonesof wonder Found love found favor reaped passion and plunder, Found Bedoins and carpetbaggers found Tucson'n even Denver... Our DAGs, our NWAs, our SAHs, Great Sands n such Allowed us mortals to caress, to touch, These tears of heaven and shreds of Moon... I feel the reverence, I'm ready to swoon.. It's all the same, it's all for the Game... My promises, my promises, to Ms. Dame and Ms. Coon. - j. murakami
Re: [meteorite-list] METEORITE CONTEST #3, Bensour-Suess
Here's another entry...poetry was never my strong suite! Certainly not Suessian! Maybe a haiku on steroids?? Did it need to on Bensour?? DAG 262/400 My moon glowed soft yellow in the quiet of that night, I yearn to touch her face to at least know my embrace But in the airless moonscape, mares dark, highlands light, My ten-year old self did squint to see no clouds or dust, a stone-cold world through this telescopic sight. A flash of light!..., maybe two or even three, (some play on my memory’s misery??) Some dust, some haziness, a puff of debris?? I witnessed some life on this cold-hearted orb?? Brings wild dreams of moon meteorites To rain on my roof, what imagined true delight! Years later I see my tektites and learn How some did once yearn To believe these glass pieces were tears of my moon.. I caress their belief then dismiss their hard wishes In favor of my own wishes for Apollo dust, or even just Russian Luna rust. The day did finally at long last arrive as chips and specks of DAGs did beckon to awake the desire and the fire for me alone to reckon. Now I sit quite broken of funds, but I have my speck of moon in hand, Even while I hope a larger chunk to land, So I needn’t squint so hard through my microscopic sight! How to embrace a grain of sand??? - j. murakami
