I bought a SNC Mars specimen from EBay and waited
breathlessly for it to arrive. When the package came I ran upstairs to
show my husband who is a rockhound. I opened the package and showed him
with delight the Martian fragment, a small speck but a piece of Mars! His
comment after looking
Michael Blood wrote:
I am sure I have it in more than one text SOMEWHERE, but can anyone
tell me quick short the estimated age of the Austro-asian strewn field
Tektites?
Sterling K. Webb wrote:
The figure given for the age of the Australasian field has been
estimated at 770,000 to 780,000
At 03:35 PM 19/09/2002 -0500, you wrote:
My entry... for contest #7: When you have shown someone your
meteorite(s), what's the wildest/strangest comment or question you've
been asked?
Why do you keep telling me my rocks aren't meteorites ???
Just to clarify: this was said by someone who
First, a good on-line article is:
Wang, J., Q. Zhao, X. Chen, R. Wang, and P. Wang (2000)
Age estimation of the mid-Pleistocene microtektite event
in the South China Sea: A case showing the complexity of
the sea-land Correlation. Chinese Science Bulletin.
Vol. 45 No. 24, pp. 2277-2280.
Just testing, I think my mails arent reaching the list...sorry just testing
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Rafael B. Torres
Space Collection 2001
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I have it on good authority that this is a true story, The names have been omitted because the two collectors are probably on the List.
Two meteorite collectors (you can picture any two collectors on the list) went to theMorocco to hunt for meteorites.When they arrived they rented the
Hi Michael,
The australasian tektite strewnfield formed around 0.8 million years ago
(the 0.6- 0.77 million year ages sometimes found in the older literature
need to be updated a bit). By far the most accurate 'relative' age estimate
comes from comparing the stratigraphic position of
Dear List Members,
We are finaly back from Denver, what a blast!
We came back a day late becuase we stopped in Delta Utah to hunt for triolibites
on the way back. After much thought we have decided the winners
ofthe mystery main mass specimens. In case you did not get the post
from Martin
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Hello List, hello Adam,
What a day! Thank you, Adam. I can hardly wait ... Phew!!!
This afternoon I was again chasing ... no, not butterflies but those
enigmatic chondrules with conspicuous, spherical or slightly oval
indentations (cp. O.R. Norton: Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites,
p. 231)
Mark Fox wrote:
I am probably not far off to speculate that many list members
are in suspense over the classification of the new meteorite
fall... Neuschwanstein. The reasons are quite obvious, this
meteoritic stone has the possibility of being connected with
an actual meteorite shower, is
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/20sep_mysteryobject.htm
Mystery Object Orbits Earth
NASA Science News
A puzzling object just discovered in orbit around Earth might be an Apollo
rocket on a fantastic journey through the solar system.
Sept. 20, 2002: Something
the first pieces were cut from the Neuschwanstein meteorite, and thin sections had
been prepared, the result was: (rolling drums) ... no, not just an ordinary
chondrite but an enstatite chondrite (E6). Further analyses will show if it is an EH
or an EL.
It will be interesting to see
Thanks to Paul, Bernd, Bruce, Marco (and many others
too numerous to mention),
Got it now.
Thanks, Michael
(Consensus is 600K to 800K, with 700K to 800K the most common, depending
on a variety of sources)
on 9/20/02 10:12 AM, Marco Langbroek at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Michael,
Hello all-
We are winding down and I think there will be five days of sales left, some
days will have less than 10 pieces offered. I will post sales:
Monday - noon - I will have the folder filled today before I leave town.
Tuesday - 8pm
Wednesday - noon
Thursday will be a listing of the items
Hello Adam and all,
Adam wrote:
it is an olivine diogenite.
This stone consist of subequal amounts of orthopyroxene (Fs28Wo4.7 to
Fs30Wo6.5, FeO/MnO = 28-32) and olivine (Fa36; FeO/MnO = 46.5), large
chromite grains, minor anorthite, clinopyroxene, troilite, and Fe-metal
(Ni-free).
The part
Adam wrote:
This stone consists of subequal amounts of orthopyroxene
(Fs28Wo4.7 to Fs30Wo6.5, FeO/MnO = 28-32) and olivine
(Fa36; FeO/MnO = 46.5), large chromite grains, minor
anorthite, clinopyroxene, troilite, and Fe-metal (Ni-free).
Lucky Frank wrote:
The part that caught my eye in the
That's pretty easy... over the past week, I gave a talk about my
meteorites to a group of A+ (3-5th graders) students at a library on the
island I was visiting (my husband and I went to the Neighbor Island of
Molokai for our annual vacation this year.) Anyway, I had a slice of Gold
Basin I put
Hello everybody,
In this case Ni-Free metal means 6/100th of one percent or .06%. In other
words trace amounts. This was such an odd result that we measured it
several times and confirmed it. We also confirmed that we were analyzing the
actual metal and not some other mineral. The nickel in
Good evening Folks,
NWA 1109, Ni-freeor almost? Sounds like a specimen to have; which I don't. Do any of you have a specimen of this intriguing meteorite for sale?
Best Regards,
Paul
In a message dated 9/20/2002 7:27:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello
NEW J002E3 ANIMATIONS
September 20, 2002
A new animation showing the orbit of J002E3 is now available here:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/j002e3a.html
The animation covers the time period from April 2002 through July 2003.
Shown in the animation is the Earth orbit capture as J002E3 passes by the L1
Good evening list. I hope you all have a great weekend. I want to thank
the people who have bought from me so far. I redid my forsale page, and
added 3 new things. I also marked down everything to their 70% off. So the
price you see, is the price you pay. As always, if you have something for
Hello List-
One of my first meteorites I purchased was Saratov.
When I proudly showed it to my wife- her first comment
was:
Why would you buy that? I can get you all you want
from our driveway! (We have a white limestone
driveway...)
Mike Groetz
--- MARK BOSTICK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve,
Would it not be easier to thank those that have purchased from you
personally, or is this another way that you have found to once again
continually spam us with reminders of your sale?
At least take the time to put AD in the subject line so we all know it is
another sale advertisement.
Thank you for the chuckle.
Mark M.
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From:
James_TOM Knudson
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:04
AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] a true story
about meteorite hunting!
I have it on
Hello Mark,
very interesting thoughts!
The thin section analysis of the Neuschwanstein meteorite showed
that it is an E6 chondrite! The wet chemical analysis to determine if
it's an EH or EL will be carried out asap.
But anyway, Neuschwanstein is an enstatite chondrite and not an
ordinary
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