[meteorite-list] Bad anniversary......

Hello Two years ago humanity underwent one of the worsts made an attempt aside of a band of fanatical that use the excuse that their God wanted this does killing beyond 2000 innocent persons. This infamy, like other made always aside of this people, never will be forgotten, in the hope that a

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

I suspect most meteorites bury themselves on impact to just below the surface in soft sand/dirt so, I think the rate of 'soil covering' will make the difference, a dry desert soil is generally eroded away by winds to reveal them, and somewhere like tropical Britain (well this year at least!) has

[meteorite-list] Dave Freeman's Rock Springs Meteorite

Here's an image of the L6 that Dave is talking about: http://www.geocities.com/bolidechaser/rocksprings/rckspr88.jpg Happy Birthday, Dave! And best wishes, Bob V. - [meteorite-list] Cold hunting David Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:03:34 -0600

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

I believe Mark is perfectly right by saying that most meteorites are lying below the soil surface. I did not make any compiling but I guess if you go through all the Met. Bull's reporting meteorite FINDS, I am pretty sure that about (at least ?) half of them were found through plowing some field.

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

Zelmir, Well put, given the potential value of a massive chunk of Esquel I am supprised no one has sunk further holes around the site! If I lived near by, I'd certainly do it myself! Maybe the use of a magnetometer would be the way to go, these days there is a myriad of equipment designed to

[meteorite-list] Mission to Meteor Crater

http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=72845 Mission to Meteor Crater By SETH MULLER Arizona Daily Sun September 11, 2003 Although a manned mission to Mars remains in the realm of science fiction, more than a dozen NASA scientists and contractors have been conducting

[meteorite-list] PURTARANO

Wow what a beautiful piece of earth rock.It is so hard to believe that this is not a meteorite, in stead of meteorwrong.I want to thank matt morgan for letting me purchase a piece of PURTARANO.I just got a 219 gram slice.This thing is gorgeous.It looks so much like a stony iron.It looks alot like

Re [meteorite-list] Cold hunting/Esquel

Mark, Interesting comments. However I am not sure somebody still knows where exactly that well was sunk. Esquel was supposed to be found back in 1951 (ref.: Meteorites from A to Z). I know the finder kept the piece for long years before he made it expertized as meteorite and again it took him

[meteorite-list] Mysterious Blast Shakes Nanaimo, Canada

http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030911.wnama0911/BNStory/National/ Mysterious blast shakes Nanaimo Canadian Press September 11, 2003 Nanaimo, B.C. -- Was it a sonic boom, a dynamite blast, or an asteroid hitting the earth? Government and local emergency services were stumped

[meteorite-list] meteorite ground movment

Hello List, How much can a meteorite move? Kingman's old airfield used the outskirts of kingman as a shooting range during WW2 and I asked the airfield museum how many 50 caliber bullets they shot on this range. The airfield museum curator did not remember the exact number, but he remembered it

[meteorite-list] Re: Recent Flash Floods

Hello List, Over the past several weeks I've had the opportunity to visit 14 dry lakes in CA and NV. I'm here to report that I have some good news. All of the 14 dry lakes that I recon'd were in typically good shape with only a couple having experienced marginal flooding and minor resurfacing.

[meteorite-list] Re: Recent Flash Floods

Hello List, Over the past several weeks I've had the opportunity to visit 14 dry lakes in CA and NV. I'm here to report that I have some good news. All of the 14 dry lakes that I recon'd were in typically good shape with only a couple having experienced marginal flooding and minor resurfacing.

[meteorite-list] Bad Anniversary

Matteo, Thank You for remembering and commenting on the national tragedy that happened two years ago. No one here has forgotten it still is a sad day for many of us. I live in a Chicago suburb and many people here are conducting fundraisers benefiting the people who lost so many in New

[meteorite-list] Park Forest thin sections

Hello all- I am gearing up to run some PF thin sections on eBay and I have one without a cover slip for you microprobe folks out there. Best offer $40 or more come Sunday takes it, otherwise it'll be on eBay too. http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ra/rancor/PFTSNC.jpg I also have 4 with cover

[meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

Hi Sterling and List, Sterling wrote: Taking the area of the Earth to be 5.1 x 10^8 km^2 and the meteorite flux to be 23,930 yr^-1 (that's the figure from the MORP study), this yields the assumed collisional cross section of the earth to be 21,360 km^2 yr^-1. This rate means that one

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

Just wondering who owns these areas you "cold hunters" are searching? Are areas like the Gold Basin and Bonneville Salt Flats publicly owned or do you make arrangements with individual land owners? WarrenJoin Excite! - http://www.excite.comThe most personalized portal on the Web!

Re: [meteorite-list] PURTARANO

Steve and others, A few months ago I posted a thread to the list that basically said that while the Putorana looks like a mesosiderite...that when I compared it to Vaca Muerta in thin section, they look nothing alike at all. Plain and simple the Putorana looks like the basalt that it has been

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

Hi, Rob, Actually, I seem to recall that Phil Bland at the Natural History Museum in London (formerly called The British Museum and always will be in my head) did a study doing terrestial age-dating all the meteorites from several given areas, just to get the age distribution and a figure on

Re 2: [meteorite-list] PUTORANA not PURTARANO

List members, I'll respond to my own thread by going one step further...recognizing that eucrites and terrestrial basalts are chemically about the same. However, looking at the few eucrites I have, they are much finer grained and less colorful than the Putorana basalt. The plagioclase needles

[meteorite-list] Cold hunting

Hi All, On the subject of met hunting, Dave P. replied to my remark: Matson: If you want to reduce search time per (cold) meteorite find (i.e. non-strewnfield), the #1 factor is survival time -- you must maximize it any way you can: 1. Low deposition rate -- ideally a ~negative~ deposition

RE: Re 2: [meteorite-list] PUTORANA not PURTARANO

John: For starters read the article at the bottom of the page here.. http://www.mhmeteorites.com/pubs/news.htm This may help you see why and how things got strange with this rock. Matt Morgan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Recent Flash Floods

Hi Bob, nice images of the *rock garden*! i am still trying to see which one of the images show the meteorites. You seemed to forget to describe for us where to look for them! :-) Sternengruss, Moni ps. i remember you sending this along with the Nevada Meteorite Picture of the Day.