Re: [meteorite-list] Pictures of the new olivine diogenite

2002-09-23 Thread Jeff Kuyken
G'day Adam and List, Thanks for sharing that photo with everyone. It looks like one VERY interesting specimen. If anyone hasn't yet taken a look at the photo yet, I certainlyrecommend it. This may sound crazy, but I think the cut-face looks a bit like a Hubble deep space image of a nebula

[meteorite-list] Tunguska explosion

2002-09-23 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Rosemary Hackney inquired: Why is it called the cauldron of hell? Hello Rosie and List, According to my RANDOM WEBSTER's, a cauldron is a large kettle or boiler. Now, wouldn't you feel like in a cauldron of hell in a multi-megaton airburst that devastated more than 2,000 km^2 marshy Siberian

[meteorite-list] TEKTITES!! ....METEORITES OR JUST GLASS ???? Discuss..........

2002-09-23 Thread Ian Barrett
As a relative beginner to this meteoriticalworld I'd appreciate some expert advice on something that's been intriguing me for some time. TEKTITES !! I've been reading up on them and I could be very wrong but are they not just lumps of melted and solidified sand from Earth made when a

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Dar Al Gani 476

2002-09-23 Thread Rafael B. Torres
Hello everyone I was organizing my collection and I saw the DaG476 has several prices ranging from 400 to 2200 a gram. Does anybody know whats the real price of that meteroite? Thanks a lot ALSO, Im sorry if sent too much e-mails with the same thing, I didnt know they reached the list,

[meteorite-list] Re: [meteorite-list] TEKTITES!!  ....METEORITES OR JUST GLASS ???? Discuss..........

2002-09-23 Thread Starbits
There seems to be many- often hazy attempts to explain them and there are a lot for sale on Ebay, yet when you go to sellers personal sale sites they just aren't offered. I've already been looking out for what I consider meteoritical booby prizes like Faeton ! and I'm keen not to waste money

Re: [meteorite-list] TEKTITES!! ....METEORITES OR JUST GLASS ???? Discuss..........

2002-09-23 Thread Paul Harris
Dear Ian, Meteorites - No Wonderfully interesting, puzzling, frustrating pieces of glass YES. There are both common and rare types. From inexpensive to How Much!!! As far as your question, valuable additions to a collection, you must define for yourself what is valuable to you. To most of us

[meteorite-list] Help A Brother Out - Monday 9/23

2002-09-23 Thread Rob Wesel
Hope you all had a good weekend, sales resume for the next three days: Tuesday - 8pm Wednesday - noon Thursday will be a listing of the items that will be offered on Saturday and Sunday and I will include price. DO NOT REPLY WITH OFFERS TO BUY ON THURSDAY OR FRIDAY Feel free to ask any

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Dar Al Gani 476

2002-09-23 Thread Rafael B. Torres
Hey Thanks all of you, now I see how this works, I bought one tiny piece (.070 grs) for $400 a gram and it was quite good So prices of meteorites are kinda a curve, it depends on the dealer and how much they paid for it¡¡¡ Ivee seen that a lot of people from this list go always to look for

Re: [meteorite-list] UFO Commentary is Verboten

2002-09-23 Thread EL Jones
Rosemary Hackney wrote: 001501c262b1$8d8a9c00$9777d6d1@default"> Allusions have been made that it was a space ship that "exploded" above Siberia. "Allusions" of "Illusions" that are more like hallucinations. There are many legitimate reasons for not addressing such off

[meteorite-list] no cash/ trades only

2002-09-23 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!
Hi list. You can totally ignore all past posts concerning my forsale page. Everything on it is open for trades. You all know what i'm looking for. So feel free to view what you want, and lets work out a trade. steve = Steve R.Arnold, Chicago, IL,

Re: [meteorite-list] Tunguska explosion

2002-09-23 Thread Rosemary Hackney
Thanks Bernd for the information. When I think of cauldron, I think of a cauldera. And wondered if it was a volcanic area. Hmm .. I just logged in and had not read E.L. Jones rebuke before I wrote this. I merely responded to a meteorite issue on Tungeska. The info about its formation alluded

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Contest #7

2002-09-23 Thread J. Fox
Hello all, This is my first posting to the list, and I want to commend all (almost) of you on the good natured exchanges I have been reading. The majority are very professional in their demeanor, and replies to beginners are not only educational, but are done in manner befitting all good