Hello Darren,
The low number of chondrules indicates a 5 or 6 IMHO. I wouldn't rule
out "H" as H is not just free metal but overall metal content amongst
other things. Outwardly the color of the matrix looks more like olivine.
The black veins are probably a dark purple if you look closely. It i
Hello to the List,
I'll stop today the publication of the NWA CD ROM.
It has been a successfully product and everyone is
enjoying it.
I'm working on a CDROM called "Meteorites of Africa"
which will contain all meteorites of this continent.
It will include of course everything that was in the
NWA
Hello List,
I am certainly no chemist, nor do I profess to be. I purchased a 2+ pounder
pie wedge of Brahin 4 years ago from Finmet. It was polished on all 4 sides,
with crust on the outer surface. After a year, it looked a lot less shiny
then it was when it originally arrived, so I soaked it in
http://www.geocities.com/spacerocksinc/Feb11.html
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Piggy Rodeo!
Matt, congratulations on your Chiang Khan!
To avoid you to be tempted to cut slices from the exceedingly rare stone,
I want to mention, that there are two specimens left from the sale for the
Aids help project,
the 23 gram and the 25 gram fragments
http://de.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_ph
Hola List,
I just received my copy of Kichinka's new book.
My first impression: Excellent!
So I want to tell the European members of the list, who maybe hesitated
because of the shipping costs:
Take it! It's more than well worth the price!
Cheers!
Martin
Is anyone else having problem with orders sent to Germany around
Christmastime? I am suddenly having a rash of eBay orders that still have
not arrived. I am assuming that it is German customs, since I have never had
problems with this.
I find it strange though, and since some people are trying t
Well Mike and list,
I've the same problem from the other side of the
Atlantic.
2 cases from overseas orders (my NWA CDROM for
example) :
- some took more than a month to reach the USA...
(sent 30 december, arrived 4 february !)
- some were lost. (4 out of 10 sent !!!)
I think there are many thi
I have had the same experience last winter.
The only time I've lost ordinary letters in the mail was during the
holiday season last year. Both from USA and locally in Europe.
I guess it's a lot of extra personel that is hired during the holiday
season that creates most of the problems.
This year I
Hi Mike,
better ask Paypal before, I'm not sure, if they will accept as proof track
numbers of UPS.
>From DHL they do definetily not, as here in Germany the former state-run
post outsorced the parcel branch completely to DHL, so that everything is
sent now by DHL and in no case of loss Paypal refu
You cannot really trace a registered package after it leaves the US. I am
starting to use Fed Ex and DHL because they allow international tracking.
Mike, I've noticed this as well over the holidays. It sucks.
Matt
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Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
PO Box 15
Mile, Pierre and others,
I have lost 2 shipments destined to the US in early and mid december. The other
way round two sendings from the US failed to reach me in Germany. Particularly
lamentable, because on of the sendings icluded a 19.00g and a 1.50g fragment of
the Norton County Aubrite. (Bo
I just had an $880 piece of esquel reported as not having arrived. It was
also send registered mail. Keeping my fingers crossed it is held up in customs
and not lost.
--
Eric Olson
ELKK Meteorites
http://www.star-bits.com
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See here:
http://www.meteoriteshop.com/sales/s1sale51-100.html
20% discount from anything of interest.
I will be here for the next hour to keep the site
updated for sales
Cheers
DEAN
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Yes, but it takes weeks to track registered letters.
Mike
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From: "Göran Axelsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MeteoriteList"
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] European lost orders
I have had the same experience last winter.
The only t
Eric O. wrote:
> I just had an $880 piece of esquel reported as not having
> arrived. It was also send registered mail. Keeping my fingers
> crossed it is held up in customs and not lost.
Svend wrote:
> from the US failed to reach me in Germany.
Mike had written before:
> I am assuming that
I have cut few days ago a new NWA arrive to me...the
strange its the matrix its similar to 100% to Dhofar
700 but the meteorite its many magnetic for a
Diogenite.what is possible is this meteorite? Its
hard take a photo of the matrix.
Matteo
=
M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato
Via Tri
2 its the months no good for send mail to the Europe,
its August and December, August for the total month
holidays, December for the high traffic of mail for
the Christhmas Holidays. For the others months I not
have never problems to receive the mail, but the good
method its use a express courier f
Hello all
I just got my 530 gram full slice of Brahin.
I never thought I was going to have a real Palasite in my collection, but
then I had the chance to trade it for one of my meteoritecoins.
And wow, what a beauty and very very fresh looking, compared to much of
the material I have seen on
Greetings Everyone!
MeteoriteTimes for February is now up.
http://www.meteoritetimes.com/
We'd like to thank all the writers for all their hard work and please give
a big welcome to Michael Johnson who is joining
the team by producing the Meteorite of the Month section. We all enjoy and
apprecia
Hi all,
I just wanted to drop a quick note to say how much I enjoyed meeting
many of you at the Gem & Mineral Show. I thoroughly enjoyed my first
visit to the show and look forward to attending many future shows as
well. I regret that I did not meet everyone, but hopefully I will be
able to d
Dear Fellow Meteorite Fans
There is an interesting online article on impactites
and impact structures in the most recent "The
Sedimentary Record", Volume 3, No. 1 - March
2005 at:
http://www.sepm.org/sedrecord/home.htm
It is "The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts:
An SEPM Research Con
Thanks to you Paul and all who contrbute, thank you. Jerry Flaherty
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:27 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] February MeteoriteTimes Is Up
Greetings Everyone!
MeteoriteTimes for February is now up.
Hello All
I want to build a small climate room for my meteorites.
What humidity, temperature are optimal ?
Best
Lars
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List,
Tomorrow, February 12, will be the 58th birthday of
the Sikhote-Alin Fall. Happy Birthday to one of the
great ones!
Thomas
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>From my experiences I have every year 3-4 registered letters lost in space.
They are traveling month or two, but finally they alvays reached
destination.
So its possible Mike that Your meteorites arrive to buyers but they must be
patient.
And christmass time is not the best for sending anythin
> Whereas a package from Nels Oakes took only 8 days
> to arrive here at my home, another from Greg arrived
> here only after an exhausting odyssey of 4 (!) weeks.
>
> As Mike was assuming, it was once again the bothersome
> German customs authorities who had their hands in this ploy:
My German bu
> > As Mike was assuming, it was once again the bothersome
> > German customs authorities who had their hands in this
> > ploy:
> My German buyers teached me to write on every box I ship to German
> word "GIFT". Maybe You also should write this so customs know why
> You are sending it?
Marcin and
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES
February 7-11, 2005
o THEMIS Images as Art #31 (Released 7 February 2005)
http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20050207A.html
o THEMIS Images as Art #32 (Released 8 February 2005)
http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20050208A.html
o THEMIS Images as Art #33 (Released 9 Februar
Hola Dos Juans,
I also haven't seen much input to your query, but if you look closely at
the image URL below, you will notice there was a VERY LARGE beaker at
the Meteorite Mayhem Birthday Bash. I don't know who "it" belonged to,
but perhaps someone that was there can enlighten us.
http://mywe
Hello Everyone,
Just got home and there was my copy of Kevin
Kichinka's The Art of Meteorite Colllecting, in the mailbox.
Going out for some Hot Wings at Ruby Tuesdays but from
a glance, very nice job. On page 50 is a picture of
David New - finally I can attach a name to face!
On page 188 is
Thomas wrote:
> February 12, the 58th birthday of the Sikhote-Alin
> Fall. Happy Birthday to one of the great ones!
>From an unknown pseudo-poet ;-)
Fifty-eight years ago you rained down us
With dreadful force unleashed,
I'm a bit older but still very young,
Have never traveled to those depths
O
Hi Bernd and all,
Going off topic here but I work on a machine from Hell. And believe me
it can literally be just that sometimes. The name Hell is a German name
and has another meaning. The company is Hell graphics.
--AL
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Marcin and List,
The only problem is "gift" is th
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html
OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Examining a Trench and Scuff - sol 367-373,
February 11, 2005
Opportunity is in good health after more than a year on the martian
surface. The rover completed its investigation of a trench and soil
materials on sol 373 and i
Someone here in the USA sent me a payment with a check and I didn't get it
for over 3 years. One day the shredded check and envelope showed up in my
post office box in a plastic bag with a note explaining it had be found in
an automatic sorting machine that had been taken out of service.
John
Hola yourself, Dave,
I was pretty certain that Chicago Steve was in Tucson this year,
but this is the first photographic evidence that I've seen.
http://myweb.cableone.net/dandrews/beaker.html
Thanks for passing that along.
Jerry
DNAndrews wrote:
Hola Dos Juans,
I also haven't seen much input to yo
On all order placed on our web site, we used Fedex with insurance and put
the real price of the piece. All packages are labeled with "meteorites" as
description and we pay the tax and customs fee if any. So our customers
never had trouble except two cases in ten years, a package was lost but
be
List,
While en route to Tucson, I met a nugget shooter in
Quartzsite that had just found a nice chondrite. I
was able to buy it, and a piece is on its way to UCLA
for classification. You can find pics at
http://tektitesource.com/New%20AZ%20meteorite.htm
I plan to sell it after classification,
Part of my tucson haul was a great looking 100lb seymchan from the comet
shop guys - (FedEx ground just delivered it today I didnt think I would be
able to get away with putting it in the overhead compartment - even over
someone's head other than my own!) and after looking at it more and more I
I have a exceptionally nice oriented nosecone NWA up for sale with buy it
now on ebay.
See here :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6511513481&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
Thanks
Bob Evans
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Hi list.I will get right to the point.I have decided to start the colle
ting us meteorite falls.It sure beats the hell out of having to to worry
about pairings.I'll be looking for semi-rare and rare us falls.So for
me,no more dhofars,no dags,no jiddatts,no sau's etc.It does not mean I'll
not collec
In a message dated 2/11/2005 2:07:08 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, Mike's package *was* labeled with something like "Specimen for study.
No commercial value" and still we ran into this mess. When I got my beautiful
Tambo Quemado from Eric Twelker, I had to drive do
Mine came too and I have similar impressions after a quick review. I can't wait
to read it.
JD (24)
-- Original message from "Walter Branch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> Just got home and there was my copy of Kevin
> Kichinka's The Art of Meteorite
Keen observation there Jerry. The cash "only" in hand reinforces your point.
Nice picture of the group that was there that night Dave. Thanx for sharing.
JD
-- Original message from "Jerry A. Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Hola yourself, Dave,
>
> I was pretty
Hey everyone, even though I posted it, many from the list are still asking
when the CNN thing runs tomorrow, so here is the schedule again.
PLEASE NOTE.
These times are EASTERN, so you need to adjust if you live anywhere else.
Mike
Mike Farmer
Mike--Your Free Agent piece turned out really well a
Hi Bob,
Thank you for the oriented nosecone offering. Do you have a picture of the
trailing end?
Best regards,
Greg
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:12 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Oriented nosecone for sale
I have a exce
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Pure Denatured Alcohol
You can get buy it by the quart in any good hardware store. It is sold in
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Dear List,
I am having a problem receiving my own posts. Can
someone help? Answer off-list please.
Thanks,
Thomas
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