Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Opinion needed

2005-07-21 Thread David Freeman mjwy
Dear All, My petrified wood associate in Warsaw sends me a western Union wire transfer to my local grocery store's western union window and presto, instant payment! I cans the wire transfer right there or put in my bank for instant credit. Used this method a number of times and has worked we

[meteorite-list] Meteorites Reveal Extended Deep-Freeze on Mars

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn7709 Meteorites reveal extended deep-freeze on Mars David L Chandler New Scientist 21 July 2005 Mars has never been much warmer than it is now, reveals the first detailed analysis of the planet's long-term thermal history - the current temperature

[meteorite-list] Wild Horse, Colorado Meteorite Postcard

2005-07-21 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Hello everyone, I have added another postcard to the line of meteorite postcards I have been producing. This one shows the Wild Horse meteorite before it was cut. Limited to 500 copies of which 100 will go to the main mass. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6195514610 Clea

[meteorite-list] NASA Names Astronaut John Young Ambassador of Exploration

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
Dean Acosta/David Steitz Headquarters, Washington July 21, 2005 (Phone: 202/358-1898/1730) James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston (Phone: 281/483-5111) RELEASE: O5-192 NASA NAMES ASTRONAUT JOHN YOUNG AMBASSADOR OF EXPLORATION Space pioneer John Young has been na

[meteorite-list] Palomar Observatory's 200-inch Hale Telescope Observes Comet Impact

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
Caltech News Release For Immediate Release July 21, 2005 Deep Impact: During and After Impact PALOMAR MOUNTAIN, Calif. - Astronomers using the Palomar Observatory's 200-inch Hale Telescope have been amazed by comet Tempel 1's behavior during and after its collision with the Deep Impact space

[meteorite-list] 'Four-Billion-Year Chill' on Mars

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4703055.stm 'Four-billion-year chill' on Mars By David Whitehouse BBC News July 21, 2005 A chemical study of Martian meteorites implies that the planet has always been cold and was rarely above freezing. Writing in Science, researchers have been able to dete

Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Opinion needed

2005-07-21 Thread Pekka Savolainen
Yes, indeed, it´s quite difficult to get a cashier checks in Finland, and also very expensive from the bank. Even Western Union wire may be cheaper. best, pekka s Norbert Classen wrote: Dear Walter, dear Listees, There's a major difference between the European and the US banking systems:

AW: [meteorite-list] Opinion needed

2005-07-21 Thread Norbert Classen
Dear Walter, dear Listees, There's a major difference between the European and the US banking systems: while you are used to checks and money orders we are used to bank wire transfers. In fact, the last time I used a check or a money order must be more than 10 years ago. All my banking business is

Re: [meteorite-list] Heating moldavites and tektite look-alikes

2005-07-21 Thread Norm Lehrman
All, Most of you will remember, but there may be some new members on the list that did not participate in the last round of "How do you recognize a real tektite?" list discussions. A sysnopsis of the results is posted on my website, including pics of a heated Arizonaite provided by Jim Tobin (this

Re: [meteorite-list] Heating moldavites and tektite look-alikes

2005-07-21 Thread JKGwilliam
Many of use did a lot of speculating about these "Arizonaites" or "Grahamites" that were found in Eastern Arizona. Both Jim Kriegh and John Blennert told me the same story that Bernd just related here. I believe they even tried heating the test specimens with a torch to see what specimens wou

Re: [meteorite-list] Opinion needed

2005-07-21 Thread JKGwilliam
Walter, I know who it is that you're dealing with and I've never had a problem with them. However, if you paid for the specimen with a check you should expect your refund to be returned the same way. I suggest you decide that you're 101% sure that you'll never give out your bank account numb

[meteorite-list] Heating moldavites and tektite look-alikes

2005-07-21 Thread bernd . pauli
AL wrote: "Someone mentioned one time of putting tektites in a microwave oven for a bit (on high) to try to determine if it is an Earth based specimen or a possible tektite ... " Hello AL, Doug, Norm, and List, Back in the year 2000, Jim Kriegh experimented with Apache tears and those tektite

[meteorite-list] Opinion needed

2005-07-21 Thread Walter Branch
Hello Everyone, I was wondering if anyone has an opinion with a problem I have with a meteorite dealer. I am returning a slice of Ghubara for a refund. I feel it was not described adequately. The seller, who is in Finland, wants my bank account number to directly deposit refund funds. My polic

Re: [meteorite-list] Moldavite Update

2005-07-21 Thread MexicoDoug
AL M. wrote: >Someone mentioned one time of putting tektites in a microwave >oven for a bit (on high) to try to determine if it is an Earth based >specimen or a possible tektite. This seems reasonable to me >but I'm not a real tektite buff. If it is a tektite then it shouldn't >get hot as ther

Re: [meteorite-list] Moldavite Update

2005-07-21 Thread AL Mitterling
Hi Doug and tektite fans, Someone mentioned one time of putting tektites in a microwave oven for a bit (on high) to try to determine if it is an Earth based specimen or a possible tektite. This seems reasonable to me but I'm not a real tektite buff. If it is a tektite then it shouldn't get hot

[meteorite-list] Seeking Deep Space Salt Lovers

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_saltlovers_050721.html Seeking Deep Space Salt Lovers By Rocco Mancinelli Principal Investigator, SETI Institute 21 July 2005 Each recent report of liquid water existing elsewhere in the solar system - be it ice on comets, oceans on Europa, or more recent

[meteorite-list] Dust-Enshrouded Star Looks Similar to our Sun

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6304 Dust-Enshrouded Star Looks Similar to our Sun, May Have Witnessed 'Cosmic Catastrophe,' Astronomers at UCLA, Gemini and Carnegie Report Date: July 20, 2005 Contact: Stuart Wolpert ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Phone: 310-206-0511 Astronomers report trem

Re: [meteorite-list] Moldavite Update

2005-07-21 Thread Norm Lehrman
All, I have access to a PIMA (portable infrared mineral analyzer). These operate on spectral reflectance in the SWIR spectrum (1300-2500 nanometers). There are excellent water absorption features in this range. I'm sure I've run tektites before, but never in direct comparison with volcanic and

Re: [meteorite-list] Moldavite Update

2005-07-21 Thread mafer
Greetings Doug and List There may be a non-destructive test that isn't as costly as a microprobe for tektites. XRF was used by the Geology & Archaeology departments at WWU to check a flake (known artifact) against normally prepard XRF samples for composition similarities (for tracing the source o

[meteorite-list] Meteor Seen in Oregon Skies

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/articles/2005/07/20/news/news3.txt Meteor seen in Siskiyou skies Tuesday Siskiyou Daily News (Oregon) July 20, 2005 YREKA - At 2:20 Tuesday afternoon, callers began alerting Yreka police and the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department to a "fire ball" that had come fro

[meteorite-list] NASA's New Mars Orbiter Will Sharpen Vision of Exploration (MRO)

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington July 21, 2005 (Phone: 202/358-1753) Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-6278) RELEASE: 05-195 NASA'S NEW MARS ORBITER WILL SHARPEN VISION OF EXPLORATION NASA's next mission to Mars will examin

Re: [meteorite-list] Moldavite Update

2005-07-21 Thread MexicoDoug
John G. wrote: >Since moldavites are made basically of the same material as green pop >bottles, checking the refractive index of a faceted stone wouldn't turn up >anything suspicious...looking for new technology to tell the difference >between the fakes and the real stones. Hola John, List,

[meteorite-list] New Paper on Richat Dome, Mauretania in Geology

2005-07-21 Thread Paul H
Guillaume Matton and Michel Jébrak, 2005, Resolving the Richat enigma: Doming and hydrothermal karstification above an alkaline complex. Geology. vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 665–668. http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1130%2FG21542.1 The abstract concluded: "The circula

Re: [meteorite-list] Moldavite Update

2005-07-21 Thread JKGwilliam
In response to my post this morning, Dirk Ross sent me the following message and asked me to pass it on. Best, JKGwilliam At 08:04 AM 7/21/2005, drtanuki wrote: Dear John, I study glasses as you may know (especially ancient and modern Chinese glasses). The glass is from beer bottles made i

Re: [meteorite-list] Moldavite Update

2005-07-21 Thread JKGwilliam
Thanks for the interesting follow-up. During my scuba diving years, I collected Japanese glass net floats. The majority of them made after 1945 were made of recycled Coke bottles left behind by USA occupational forces. I've heard recently that counterfeit floats have been showing up on the m

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - July 21, 2005

2005-07-21 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
http://www.spacerocksinc.com/July21.html __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Moldavite Update

2005-07-21 Thread Jeff Kuyken
G'day Folks, Some of you will remember the questionable Moldavite auction mentioned earlier in the week. Well after speaking with mineral dealer today I discovered that it may be what is being termed as "1st Generation" Moldavite fakes coming mainly from China. The scary thing is that there is now