[meteorite-list] Riker boxes

2002-02-12 Thread Dave Harris
Hi there, Anyone have any ideas where I could get a few Riker boxes here in the UK? Seems harder to get than a unicorn sperm sample here! Thanks! -- In gentle decay, dave IMCA #0092 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for IMCA member contact) http://www.meteorites.ic24.net/index.html

[meteorite-list] Bruno Carine in a italian scientific review

2002-02-12 Thread Matteo Chinellato
Hello all Bruno Carine they are appeared in an article of 4 pages in one Italian scientific review - Quark - care their last discovered Martian meteorites. A good article. Regards Matteo = M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email:

[meteorite-list] ebay SALE * OUED EL HADJAR * ebay SALE

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Franco
Hi list, I am starting my first ebay sale. Just take your chance at: http://cgi.ebay.fr/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1073609676 it is a fragment of my first fall discovery: the Oued El Hadjar meteorite . Good bids ! Michel FRANCO Caillou Noir 100 Chemin des Campènes 74400 CHAMONIX -

[meteorite-list] Bruno Carine in italian scientific review

2002-02-12 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Matteo wrote:Chinellato schrieb: Bruno Carine they are appeared in an article of 4 pages in one Italian scientific review - Quark - care their last discovered Martian meteorites. A good article. Regards Matteo See also: PADIRAC D. (2001) NWA 480 and NWA 817: Latest news from Mars

[meteorite-list] Other Ebay Auctions

2002-02-12 Thread Matteo Chinellato
Hello all I have put others auctions on ebay, many is go sold with the buy now..I have put the last gr.0.1 slice of SaU 008, after only big pieces http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Regards matteo = M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email:

[meteorite-list] About message titled Ebay Meteorwrong Whopper OFF TOPIC but IMPORTANT

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Miconi
Ivan and list, I received a message from Ivan today that contains a Virus. I KNOW it was unintentional on Ivans part...I just want everyone to use caution and to make Ivan aware that he has it. The virus was the "W32.Badtrans.B@mm" and you can get the tool to remove it from

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange e-mails

2002-02-12 Thread Tom
I got the same thing last night. I had to delete cuz I know the real Ivan wouldn¹t do it to us. The attachment says Doc.doc.pif and there is nothing written in the text box Tom All, In the last couple of days I've received two e-mails from unknown persons. The latest was from someone

[meteorite-list] Tucson Sale

2002-02-12 Thread dean bessey
I lost some emails so if anybody sent me an email to buy stuff over the last couple days please email me again. I set up a bit late in tucson and missed the first two days but I have managed to sell 450 kilos of meteorites in tucson so I guess that I have had a good show. I had 414 kilos of

[meteorite-list] New Report on Hubble Space Telescope Impact Damage

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Baalke
New Report on Hubble Space Telescope Impact Damage Orbital Debris Quarterly Johnson Space Center January 2002 The Image Science and Analysis Group at the NASA Johnson Space Center has just released its latest assessment of small particle damage to the HST in Survey of the Hubble Space

[meteorite-list] From the Admin - Virus Precautions

2002-02-12 Thread ajones
Greetings Everyone; As a rule of thumb, never open any email attachments unless you are 100% sure of what they are and have run a virus scan on them. Some of the latest bugs can be run simply by having Outlook set to 'preview' mode or by clicking a link embedded in an email. Beware! These days,

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange e-mails

2002-02-12 Thread J. Hirschmann
this is a virus, if the attached file for example is humor.zip.pif ( impossible extensions in windows ). the sender himself doesn´t know and that and will not recognize that he is infected. I received some days more than 100 mails from people I do not know. delete tha attachment and use a visur

Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson Sale

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Casper
Way to go Bessey! xoxox, MC - Original Message - From: dean bessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:52 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Tucson Sale I lost some emails so if anybody sent me an email to buy stuff over the last couple days please

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange e-mails

2002-02-12 Thread DiamondMeteor
Can .pif attachments cause damage to a computer when opened? YES,, they are as good as .EXE, .BAT or .COM in carrying a virus. These emails may come from infected computers where your email is saved for any reason. The owner of the computer would not know that he sent you such emails. Regards

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange e-mails

2002-02-12 Thread John Gwilliam
Morning All, I talked with Ivan Koutyrev on the phone this morning and he was aware he was spreading a virus. He has corrected the problem. John At 10:51 AM 2/12/02 -0500, Tom wrote: I got the same thing last night. I had to delete cuz I know the real Ivan wouldn¹t do it to us. The attachment

Re: [meteorite-list] More on CAIs

2002-02-12 Thread S.Singletary
Just a follow up to Bernd's post, I've been reading a lot on CAI's lately so this discussion is great, keep it going. Have a look at: Hsu, W., et al., 2000, High Time resolution by use of the 26Al chronometer in the multistage formation of a CAI Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 182,

[meteorite-list] The Pelisson,s. METEORITE GODS

2002-02-12 Thread dean bessey
As many of you know I have sold artifacts for longer than I have sold meteorites. One of the ploys that some slimy artifact dealers do is to tell anybody who brings them something for them to authtenticate is to tell them that it is a fake. That way they think that the potential nieve customer

[meteorite-list] The Pelisson,s. METEORITE GODS

2002-02-12 Thread dean bessey
As many of you know I have sold artifacts for longer than I have sold meteorites. One of the ploys that some slimy artifact dealers do is to tell anybody who brings them something for them to authtenticate is to tell them that it is a fake. That way they think that the potential nieve customer

[meteorite-list] Tucson 2002

2002-02-12 Thread MARSROX
I've just returned from six days in Tucson and will file this report for those that weren't able to make it. I'll include some peripheral info. Because I was hand-carrying a suitcase full of meteorites, I received special attention at the FtMyers (Fla.), Chicago and Tucson airports both coming

[meteorite-list] Willamette Meteorite Fragments Sold

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/science/101351855725853138.xml Willamette Meteorite fragments sold RICHARD L. HILL The Oregonian February 12, 2002 Two fragments of the famous Willamette Meteorite drew spirited bidding at an auction in

[meteorite-list] More on CAIs

2002-02-12 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
S.Singletary wrote: They are indeed complicated little beasties. CAIs are characteristically enriched in refractory elements and cannot only be found in carbonaceous chondrites but also in primitive ordinary, enstatite, and K chondrites. Their isotopic anomalies originated in nucleosynthesis

[meteorite-list] New Finds

2002-02-12 Thread DiamondMeteor
If you like please check out my nice new finds of (non)meteo(rite/wrong) or whatever-they-are: this looks like basalt but it is more than 50% pure metal: http://pages.britishlibrary.net/mhy10/meteor/nkl.htm this is a unique combination in one rock between three previous rocks:

[meteorite-list] Mike Martinez' Hat

2002-02-12 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Kevin, Chief Barking Nakhla Dog, informed our List: Mike Martinez' ...main contribution was wearing a hard hat inscribed Meteorite Recovery Team that featured adjacent racks for liquor bottles and flexible straws for easy drinking. This contribution is an absolute must see :-)) I have a

[meteorite-list] I'm so confused.

2002-02-12 Thread Robert Wendi Beauford
How could this possibly be an H5? It's gorgeous! Meteorite Richardton North Dakota Fall 16g Item # 1072147762 And I thought I was finally getting a hang of classifications. This H5 looks like no other H5 or even H4 that I have seen. What am I missing? -Robert Beauford : )

[meteorite-list] New Finds

2002-02-12 Thread Matson, Robert
Greetings Mohamed, If you like please check out my nice new finds of (non)meteo(rite/wrong) or whatever-they-are: They are all terrestrial rocks. this looks like basalt but it is more than 50% pure metal: http://pages.britishlibrary.net/mhy10/meteor/nkl.htm That's not clear from the

[meteorite-list] CR2 SALE AD/ JAKE

2002-02-12 Thread Meteoriteman
Hello all; I have one very NICE specimen of NWA801 to offer here. It is a half-stone and can be viewed at http://www.nature-source.com/nwa801.htm SPECIAL price for list members: 11.2 Gram; $280.00 (plus shipping, insurance, delivery confirmation) that is only $25.00 per gramand this

RE: [meteorite-list] New Finds

2002-02-12 Thread Treiman, Allan
Rock 1 looks like a granite or granitic gneiss. The pink/orange stuff would be alkali feldspar and the dark material would be amphibole or pyroxene (difficult to tell from the photos) and magnetite. Rock 2 is impossible to tell, partly because the photos are fuzzy. I've seen terrestrial

[meteorite-list] Massachusetts sonic boom / bolide

2002-02-12 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi Bob, Most of this info was forwarded to Met Central almost as soon as it happened. Admitedly the story is more interesting and pertinent than anything that is likely to come from Mohamed in the near future, but last I checked there were ZERO useful observational reports that could be used to

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange e-mails

2002-02-12 Thread CMcdon0923
FWIW.I also received this email, and one thing I noticed was that the FROM: field contained an underscore (_) in front of the sender's name. If I remember when this virus originally came out, that was one of the identifying markers of it. Craig

[meteorite-list] Re: Massachusetts sonic boom / bolide

2002-02-12 Thread Robert Verish
The PA Bolide fell in the most rugged and most densely forested area of the East Coast. Because this was widely reported in the media, it is no wonder that there was no recovery effort attempted. The terrain in Western Mass. isn't that hopeless. I wouldn't discourage anyone from making an

[meteorite-list] ebay meteorwrong

2002-02-12 Thread Rhett Bourland
Hehehe, now just by the description alone I'm going to guess that this isn't a real meteorite. Then again, it was found in an enchanted forest. Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org

RE: [meteorite-list] Mike Martinez' Hat

2002-02-12 Thread Rhett Bourland
Hey Bernd, The way I look at it, you give me information on some of my most obscure questions on meteorites so I'm more than happy to host anything you ask of me. Actually, if anyone else has anything like this that can be of use (humorous or informational) to the list email me and chances are

[meteorite-list] Northwest Africa Meteorites a blessing, or omen?

2002-02-12 Thread Edward Hodges
While at Tucson I noticed a huge number of unclassified NWA's for sale. Some lots were going for as little as $0.35 a gram. I noticed many people buying unclassified specimens. To me an unclassified meteorite is just a rock, basicilly worthless. Of course it is a meteorite, and it might even

Re: [meteorite-list] Northwest Africa Meteorites a blessing, or omen?

2002-02-12 Thread David Freeman
Dear Edward, I went round and round for a while on getting a NWA myself due to the same concerns that you have asked.If you would like to have a nice looking meteorite that weights a few pounds and you don't want to spend more than a few hundred dollars then the NWA's have a place. Yes,

Re: [meteorite-list] I'm so confused.

2002-02-12 Thread John Gwilliam
At 11:14 AM 2/12/02 -0700, Robert Wendi Beauford wrote: How could this possibly be an H5? It's gorgeous! Meteorite Richardton North Dakota Fall 16g Item # 1072147762 And I thought I was finally getting a hang of classifications. This H5 looks like no other H5 or even H4 that I have seen. What

[meteorite-list] ADD, Rare old falls for sale!

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Farmer
Hello everyone, Tucson is winding down and I am getting a little time to put some great items up for sale. Tonight is a whopper of a sale! First I have Campos sales, a 469 gram individual that has been my collection piece for years. I acquired a new one and must sell this one. It is simply

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA meteorites blessing or omen ?

2002-02-12 Thread Graham Christensen
This is true. I myself have many tiny chips and pieces of meteorite but I have an NWA that I got from Dean Bessey that is 285 grams. I am glad that I had the opportunity to obtain a meteorite of its size. It has given me a better idea of what a meteorite would probably look like in an

[meteorite-list] new stuff, new website

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Farmer
Oops, I messed up the URL.See the rare items athttp://www.meteoriteguy.com/indexthanks Mike Farmer

RE: [meteorite-list] ebay meteorwrong

2002-02-12 Thread Rhett Bourland
OK, it probally would've helped if I put the URL in here wouldn't it? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1702560610 Sorry about that.. Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org -Original Message- From:

[meteorite-list] HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIKOTE ALIN

2002-02-12 Thread GShanos
Dear List Members: Happy Birthday to Sikote Alin which fell on Feb 12, 1947. A truely awesome iron! Sincerely Greg PS We forgot to wish Allende a Happy Birthday on Feb 8th __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[meteorite-list] 2003 Third Millennium METEORITE Calendar

2002-02-12 Thread Roman Jirasek
Good news I am pleased to announce that there will be a Third Millennium Meteorite Calendar, 2003 Edition printed this May, and slated for official release June 21, 2002. Robert Szep, producer of the original year 2000 Third Millennium Meteorite Calendar, and I, are currently in the process

[meteorite-list] Tucson, pictures etc.

2002-02-12 Thread meteorite1.net
Hello all, I just came in the door, wow 385 e-mails. Please give me a day or so to reply to those of you e-mailing me directly. I went sort of camera happyin Tucson, I will get a site up for those of you that were not able to go this year, that should be up tomorrow as well. The big