Re: [meteorite-list] [meteorite-list]someting else! Asteroids

2004-03-05 Thread Walter Branch
Hi Rob and List, Congratulations! Very nice! Rob, has also coordinated astronomical observations with an in-flight shuttle astronaut. A very busy (and successful) man. Walter -- www.branchmeteorites.com - Original Message - From: "moni waiblinge

Re: [meteorite-list] Who is entropydave?

2004-03-05 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 3/5/2004 11:30:27 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking at an auction on eBay from seller "entropydave". Does anyone know who this guy is? He has an IMCA number, but we all know that doesn't always mean a lot...  :) Can anyone here vouch for him? Pl

[meteorite-list] entropydave's Secret Identity

2004-03-05 Thread Bob Martino
All, Thanks to all who responded to my query about entropydave. I got many responses, all of them very positive. I can now, as they say, "bid with confidence." ..Isn't this a great list when we aren't all getting snippy? :) - Bob Martino, Tucson, AZ "You're not going crazy. You're going sa

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: someting else! Asteroids

2004-03-05 Thread CMcdon0923
Congratulations Rob.       And lest we forget, Ron also has one named after him"(6524) Baalke".

[meteorite-list] Congratulations on having an asteroid named after you!

2004-03-05 Thread dfpens
Rob Matson: Congratulations on the honor of having an asteroid named after you. "The Minor Planet Center today updated its Discovery Circumstances pages with 93 new namings. The highest numbered asteroid with a name is now 73491 Robmatson (2002 PO164), a Main Belter discovered by Sebastian Hoen

[meteorite-list] Re: someting else! Asteroids

2004-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke
> > Hello list, Rob and Moni, > > Rob wrote, via Moni: "In other asteroid news, an asteroid was officially = > named after me > today! See page 2 here: > > http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0403/05.htm > > --Rob" > Congratulations Rob! You can view the asteroid's orbit here: http://neo.jpl.

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rovers

2004-03-05 Thread dfpens
Ron: Please keep the images coming. Probably more than anything else on this list, I look forward to the Mars Odyssey Themis Images and the Mars Rover Updates. Regards, Dave > > If you want to enforce the letter of Art's > > laws, most of Ron Baalke's posts shouldn't appear here, after all, w

Re: [meteorite-list] [meteorite-list]someting else! Asteroids

2004-03-05 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Hello list, Rob and Moni,   Rob wrote, via Moni: "In other asteroid news, an asteroid was officially named after metoday!  See page 2 here:http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0403/05.htm--Rob"   I can see signed Robmatsonoid models on eBay next week.  Congratulations Rob.  That's great to hear.    Ma

[meteorite-list] Amgala now publicly on sale eBay AD

2004-03-05 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List Members, First of all, we would like to thank those of you who purchased a good portion of this fall in private from our catalog and to others whom expressed an interest. We made an additional 1.5 plus kilograms available today on ebay. We have approximately 1.1 kilograms more coming i

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rovers

2004-03-05 Thread tett
OK, I'll bite   What the heck is IMDA? . Dealer's Ass?   tett - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rovers >>> most times Ron Baalke's posts are the

[meteorite-list] EBAY AUCTIONS ENDING TOMORROW NIGHT

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!
Good evening list.I have 10 auctions ending tomorrow night between 9 and11 0'clock chicago time.Up for grabs are;EL SAMPAL,NWA 1068 (MARS),NWA 1109 EUCRITE,NWA 1650 EUCRITE,TULIA(B),NWA 3045, and I just listed for 3 days a 4.3 gram thick slice of BELMONT from wisconsin.There are some steals to be h

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rovers

2004-03-05 Thread Meteorbiter
>>> most times Ron Baalke's posts are the only ones worth reading <<< THANK YOU, MONI that`s all to say. Mike, IMDA # 0001

[meteorite-list] [meteorite-list]someting else! Asteroids

2004-03-05 Thread moni waiblinger-seabridge
Hi List and Rob, I did get permission from our own list member Rob Matson to post this email he send to me. I thought it to be very interesting and would like to share it with you. Happy hunting, Moni that reminds me, have you found one lately? Yep -- nearly every day. But all of the finds c

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rovers

2004-03-05 Thread tett
I second that! Ron, I enjoy your posts to the list. Thank you very much. Mike Tettenborn Owen Sound, Ontario - Original Message - From: "moni waiblinger-seabridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [meteo

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rovers

2004-03-05 Thread moni waiblinger-seabridge
Hi All, most times Ron Baalke's posts are the only ones worth reading. I am still learning about meteorites and I am still excited about the list, but there are definitely times, when... Keep up the wonderful information you are adding to the list, Mr. Baalke! Happy hunting, Moni From: Ron Baal

Re: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread CMcdon0923
<< You are wrong, you used the word Chimp, You made it olitical, and made yourself the chimp! >> Randy's substitution of the word "chimp" in reference to the President of The United States is THE ONLY reason I even bothered to post my reply to his email. If you can't take it.don't dish i

Re: [meteorite-list] Sex, religion and meteorite essays?

2004-03-05 Thread David Freeman
Oh Geeze, lets go back and talk religion again, NOT, for those not old timers, look up the archival battles Maybe Mark B. could do the semi annual refreshment of the "why meteorites are cool" essay that won the free meteorite specimen a while back. Although a bit rambling, the es

Re: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Chimp Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread Arizona Keith
Hello Randy and list   You are wrong, you used the word Chimp, You made it Political, and made yourself the chimp!   Maybe John Glenn will change his opinion once again, if NASA sends him back into space, like they did last time to get his vote for the space program. Glenn is a politician ho

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rovers

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Farmer
Ron, please keep posting about Mars. We have Mars meteorites, and the rovers are analyzing the rocks there, what could be more related than that? Personally, I think we all need that data to prove once and for all that out SNC's are Martian. Mike Farmer - Original Message - From: "Ron B

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rovers

2004-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke
> If you want to enforce the letter of Art's > laws, most of Ron Baalke's posts shouldn't appear here, after all, what do > Mars probes have to do with meteorites? Both Mars rovers landed in impact craters, and that alone is enough to make it meteorite-related. The rocks on Mars are connected

[meteorite-list] Re: Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, conservatives just have more class than to interject politics in a meteorite forum--- On Fri 03/05, Bob Martino < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Bob Martino [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:14:27 -0700Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Former Astronaut Glenn

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rovers Update - March 4, 2004

2004-03-05 Thread Howard Wu
>The science and engineering team built a whopping 490 commands to accomplish the most complex robotic arm operations on Mars yet. Opportunity took three mosaics on the area dubbed "Last Chance," using the microscopic imager, creating 128 images in over 200 arm moves. Each "frame" of these mosaics

Re: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Chimp Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread Michael L Blood
Hi all, I have never had much interest in MOST of Ron Baalke's posts, BUT it has always been clear to me that a significant portion of the list IS interested - in fact, VERY interested, so, there is no question at all as far as I am concerned, that he should continue full blast. I just don'

[meteorite-list] Who is entropydave?

2004-03-05 Thread Bob Martino
All, I'm looking at an auction on eBay from seller "entropydave". Does anyone know who this guy is? He has an IMCA number, but we all know that doesn't always mean a lot... :) Can anyone here vouch for him? Please reply off list. Thanks! - Bob Martino, Tucson, AZ "You're not going crazy.

[meteorite-list] nwa 3045

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!
Hi list.I just want to let everyone I have a very nice piece of NWA 3045 available to the first person who emails me who wants it.I won this piece on ebay and I totally forgot that I already had one on ebay and 1 in my collection.It is a perfectally 100 % fusion crusted individual.It is 2 grams wit

[meteorite-list] Re: Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread Bob Martino
...as opposed to the conservatives, who ALWAYS give careful, thoughtful, uncritical evaluations of the things that liberals propose without regard to politics. - Bob Martino, Tucson, AZ "You're not going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world!"

[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images - March 1-5, 2004

2004-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES March 1-5, 2004 o THEMIS Images as Art #21 (Released 1 March 2004) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20040301A.html o THEMIS Images as Art #22 (Released 2 March 2004) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20040302A.html o THEMIS Images as Art #23 (Released 3 March 2004) htt

[meteorite-list] list-crying, ad nauseum

2004-03-05 Thread Sharkkb8
    * sigh *   Longing for a meteorite-list which would have exactly ONE rule:    NO NARCISSISM ALLOWED  -  i.e., no posts like:  "Someone actually dared to write something that wasn't 100% individually tailored to my personal taste.  Golly, it will take me a long time to get over this withering

RE: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Chimp Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread j . divelbiss
John, Randy and others, I too am not a big fan of politics on the list but in this case we have an opinion from someone, John Glenn, who feels the proposed program for NASA is off based. He offers up good questions. 1. Should we limit funds for important research that is already in the works?

Re: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Chimp Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread MexicoDoug
Hi John, Just to add my 2 centavos that I agree with all the substance of your message: let me add a possible tweak on the first statement... Rather than a "double standard," ever consider it might be more of a "twin stage addiction" of a sort.  Some (or many) members can't do without their mete

[meteorite-list] Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire of 1871?

2004-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040301/comet.html Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? By Irene Mona Klotz Discovery News March 5, 2004 Perhaps it was not Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking over a lantern that sparked the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed the downtown area and

[meteorite-list] A World Ruled By Fungi

2004-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www3.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/src-awr030504.php Contact: Göran Frankel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46-46-222-9458 Swedish Research Council A world ruled by fungi March 5, 2004 This release is also available in Swedish: http://www.lu.se/info/pm/677_pressm.html The catastrophe that extin

[meteorite-list] Notre Dame Geologist Lends Skill in Mars Probe

2004-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2004/03/05/local.20040305-sbt-MARS-A1-ND_geologist_lends_s.sto ND geologist lends skill in Mars probe NASA asks scientists to develop ways to study rocks for signs of past life. By DAVID RUMBACH South Bend Tribune (Indiana) March 5, 2004 SOUTH BEND

RE: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Chimp Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread John K. Gwilliam
Randy and List, It seems that this list suffers from a double standard from time to time. Personally, I think that issues pertaining to the USA space program deserve more bandwidth and attention on this list than threads like "uhuhuhuhuh" and the like. If you want to enforce the letter of Art'

Re: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Chimp Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello Randy, I noticed your "AKA" thing and would have to guess it has to do with mine. I am writing this to the list as well, because others had commented on my "aka" thing, so I thought I would let you all know why I do that. I don't need an "AKA TOM" site! : ) My real name is James Thomas Knu

[meteorite-list] Amgala TKW?

2004-03-05 Thread Jeff Kuyken
G'day List, Does anyone know 'roughly' what the TKW for Amgala is? So far it seems pretty low as I've only seen about 2-3 kilos offered. Cheers, Jeff __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-l

RE: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Chimp Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread Randy aka Randy Mils
Am I the ony one that finds it sad that the opinion of former Astronaut John Glenn and the first American to orbit the earth is considered by some list members to be not proper for posting on this list but the discussion of "uhuhuhuhuh" and other non-words is?Randy >From: "Bernhard \"Rendelius\" R

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RE: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread Bernhard \"Rendelius\" Rems
„… where you should be spewing your lefty crap“     So please keep your „righty crap“ to yourself as well. Thank you.   Best regards, Bernhard „Rendelius” Rems CEO RPGDot Network   This outgoing mail has been virus-checked. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I heard a lot of complaining when the Hubble went up during the first Bush administration... mostly liberals wining that the money could have been better spent on free abortions or whatever. Does anyone seriously believe that science won't progress during an effort to inhabit the moon and, ultimat

Re: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan

2004-03-05 Thread Rosemary Hackney
SDI has been around  Since Reagan. Black ops money has funneled through the Navy budget for decades.   Am wondering what " real" science is.  Science comes from the Latin 'sciens' meaning "to know".  A lot of technology we take for granted has been a by - product of the space program.  Even