[meteorite-list] Campo Del Cielo

2003-11-27 Thread Timothy Finkle
Hi List,     Hope everyone had a great & wonderful Thanksgiving and ate as much as possible ..I have a problem here, I have a "Giant Campo", here it weighs about 171 to 176 lbs., and is basically way too much meteorite for me these days (hard to move around) anyone interested in trades or making a

Re: [meteorite-list] Cutting Meteorites

2003-11-27 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello List, Dremmel makes a small diamond cutting wheel. They cost about $15 but I bet they would work nice. Thanks, TomPeregrineflier <>

[meteorite-list] Impact crater symbol for Garmin GPS

2003-11-27 Thread Lars Pedersen
Hi all   How about if we all asked Garmin about adding a symbol we could used for making waypoints for impact craters in our GPS units?   I mean there are symbols for allot of different things, but no useful ones for craters.   Maybe even a symbol for meteorites?   I have tried to make t

[meteorite-list] New Orleans 1.3g eBay

2003-11-27 Thread Dave Harris
Hullo, To those who are interested I am selling 1.3g of New Orleans on eBay - due to limited supply (!) this will probably be the only time I will be putting such a large amount of this material in one auction instead of the mono-granules that I may be putting out in the future!! http://cgi.ebay.c

FW: [meteorite-list] Cutting Meteorites

2003-11-27 Thread Charles Viau
A tip for cutting small meteorite slices (Chondrites) with a Dremmel tool is to use a thin cutoff wheel and paraffin. Take an old candle and cut into it while the wheel is spinning, then alternate a little bit of cutting the meteorite and cutting into the candle. It works miracles.  (you

RE: [meteorite-list] Cutting Meteorites

2003-11-27 Thread mark ford
  Tim,   Drimmel cutting bits don’t tend to cut very well on rock they basically ‘chip their way through’ , but you can cut small slices/micro’s with some success.   Better for cutting is a bench top ‘tile cutter’ (avalible from shops like B&Q and Tool stores) they cost about £25 and

[meteorite-list] "Nantan" tektite on ebay

2003-11-27 Thread Graham Christensen
Hey everyone, This is the kind of meteorwrong seller that I don't mind. It was an honest mistake and he'll fix it as soon as possible.   Finally a happy ending to one of these stories :-)   Pascal Barre wrote:   >Thank you for your email!>I will look at it, if it's true I will removed form t