Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread MexicoDoug
Hi Matthias! Yes to all you say, I can see you're not a big fan of mitosis and meiowsis, including cut loss and rusting, I'll only whisper {Bessey specks}... Oh, here'd be my exception: Please don't forget that every decade a few good witnessed falls in fact are responsible for the birth of the

Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread Matthias Bärmann
Hello Doug , - You wrote: "Meteorites are a recyclable resource ... you can cultivate and prune and they do multiply..." That's a nice concept indeed. With my inner eyes I can see a pretty garden with meteorite-beds. In springtime you only have to put the little micromounts in the earth, give t

Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread MexicoDoug
"but just imagine that the number of collectors might double in a few years, and then again double in a few years more, etc., and all those tiny "stocks" we have now will be a drop lost in an ocean." Hi Norbert, Martin oweh and friends, The only objection to that scenario is that meteorites have

Re: [meteorite-list] Tagounite 018

2006-10-05 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 10/5/2006 3:13:57 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: List, Does anyone know if Tag 018, L4 meteorite was ever officially classified and has a NWA number? Thanks, Fred __ According to PierreMarie Pele's Encycl

Re: [meteorite-list] C/2006 M4 visible this evening

2006-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Now that we can see C/2006 M4 after sunset, I imagine more people might try to see it than would at five in the morning. If you've never tried locating an object near the horizon, you just have to find a spot where you can actually see the true astronomical horizon. It's harder than you mi

[meteorite-list] Tagounite 018

2006-10-05 Thread debfred
List, Does anyone know if Tag 018, L4 meteorite was ever officially classified and has a NWA number? Thanks, Fred __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] AD - eBay auctions ending soon

2006-10-05 Thread Peter Marmet
Hi All, I have a few auctions ending in less than 24 hrs: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZpema9 Thank you, Peter Marmet __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] looking for Dhofar 081 and 280 lunars

2006-10-05 Thread Randy Korotev
I am looking to acquire for destructive chemical analysis 0.2-0.3 gram samples of Dhofar 081 and 280. Please contact me off list if want have material to sell. Randy Korotev __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://s

AW: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread Norbert Classen
Doug wrote: > In 20 years a Moon Colony will be established... Hi Doug, and All, 20 years ago a lot of people believed: "In 20 years a Mars Colony will be established..." In Kubrick's 2001 we even made it to Jupiter, and its moon Europa in a shorter period of time. And look at where we are now -

[meteorite-list] AD - Bullet oriented Sikhote Aline

2006-10-05 Thread McCartney Taylor
The longest Sikhote Alin Bullet I've ever seen! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&item=120037638194 The new meteorite from Patagonia - Cerro Mesa... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&item=120037637277 A copy of the Thuathe meteorite fall report by Ambrose htt

Re: [meteorite-list] How I Found My New Comet (C/2006 T1 Levy)

2006-10-05 Thread MexicoDoug
Ron, Beautiful narrative by a poetic comet hunter! Please don't miss Rob Matson's comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN), currently weighing in at 25 times brighter than Levy's latest comet in the dynasty will ever get. It's easy to find if you can time it right and have a clear view of the horizon before Sunrise

[meteorite-list] FW: AUCTIONS ENDING THIS WEEK!

2006-10-05 Thread michael cottingham
From: michael cottingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:12 PM To: 'michael cottingham' Subject: AUCTIONS ENDING THIS WEEK! Hello, This is my final say on the matter. I am heading out of town for the next few days, so I will

Re: [meteorite-list] Dave Schultz

2006-10-05 Thread Michael L Blood
Thanks to those who have replied. Unfortunately, it is with the same email address I have for him. Perhaps the first email got lost. Thanks, again, and sorry for taking list time. Michael on 10/5/06 11:42 AM, Michael L Blood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does ANYONE know how I can

[meteorite-list] C/2006 M4 visible this evening

2006-10-05 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi Sterling, Thanks for the "plug" on my little baby, and for posting the link to that beautiful image on APOD taken by Michael Jäger & Gerald Rhemann. I'm told there's an article on C/2006 M4 (SWAN) in this month's Sky & Telescope which I'll need to pick up. (Astronomy magazine, on the other han

Re: [meteorite-list] Dave Schultz

2006-10-05 Thread Michael L Blood
Does ANYONE know how I can reach Dave Schultz ? I want to give him him money. (Sorry, no surrogates). Please contact off list. Thanks, Michael __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six

Re: [meteorite-list] How I Found My New Comet (C/2006 T1 Levy)

2006-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Everybody, Visually finding a comet, these days, is always news. Wonderful and difficult thing. Today most comets are found photographically or from satellite images. Still, very few of us will ever see a comet that won't get brighter than 10th or 11th magnitude. But if you want to act

Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread MexicoDoug
Martin wrote: "...Doug, tulips you can grow and multiply.(snip)...Meteorites you can't cultivate - and where in future shall such amounts of meteorites grow again, when Sahara and Oman will be over?" Hello again, Martin (and also Matthias:)), Well, maybe under the sea? There's still an untapped

[meteorite-list] Workshop: Bridging the Gap II - Effect of Target Properties on the Impact Cratering Process

2006-10-05 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/gap2007 Bridging the Gap II: Effect of Target Properties on the Impact Cratering Process September 22-26, 2007 Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Canada First Announcement -- September 2006

[meteorite-list] How I Found My New Comet (C/2006 T1 Levy)

2006-10-05 Thread Ron Baalke
http://skytonight.com/news/4306207.html How I Found My New Comet The prolific comet hunter recalls the story of his latest find. by David H. Levy October 4, 2006 Editor's Note: In the following account, Sky & Teles

[meteorite-list] Space Shuttle Atlantis Suffered Major Micrometeorid/Orbiting Debris Hit

2006-10-05 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=4848 Atlantis suffered major MMOD hit By Chris Bergin nasaspaceflightnow.com October 4, 2006 Shuttle orbiter Atlantis was hit by a MMOD (micrometeoroid/orbiting debris) event during STS-115, which NASA is describing as the "first or second largest hi

Re: [meteorite-list] The eBay $13,000,000 space rock

2006-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps he is trying to either impress someone, or pull the wool over someone's eyes by making them think he is a multi-millionaire big time businessman. Hey - maybe this is how the 5 Billionaires of eBay fame got started??? Original Message: - From: Fred Caillou Noir [EMAIL PROT

[meteorite-list] History of meteorite collecting

2006-10-05 Thread Zelimir Gabelica
Martin wrote: Hstory, can please someone write an article about meteorite collecting from the 20ies to the 60ies, after the big national races in 19th century and a little bit later too, the establishing of the large collections of the worlds, I feel always such a large gap in the history o

Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread Matthias Bärmann
Hello list, Martin Altmann wrote: "Then, Americans will discover German eBay and dump their meteorites" (quoting Doug) Not a good perspective, Germans tend to be notoriously pessimistic, when the famous German "angst" seizes them, they will store each penny under the mattress. Well, I would be

AW: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Doug, "Then, Americans will discover German eBay and dump their meteorites" Not a good perspective, Germans tend to be notoriously pessimistic, when the famous German "angst" seizes them, they will store each penny under the mattress. I guess they should rather list the stuff then in Chinese eb

AW: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Little addendum: in remembering the prices from past days, we always forget about the inflation. I just found that nice tool: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ According this calculator, USA had an inflation of roughly 50% from 1990 to 2005. And 150% from 1980 to 2005. Sniff, I paid 2$/g 1986 fo

Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread MexicoDoug
Hi Martin, nice positive outlook! But, let's test these assumptions, just to temper it a little with an alternate economic scenario (Hi Doug of 2026, pleased to meet you and 2006 sends you a warm greeting not to forget! Can you believe that Art's archive's are still available on the Meteorites Di

[meteorite-list] Ad - eBay auctions closing

2006-10-05 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a few auctions closing today including, an oriented sikhote-alin that has lipping on both sides, a 100% crusted 6.94 gram millbillillie, a fairly large 6.3 gram aouelloul impact glass that is 1/10 of what it should be selling for, and a few others. Check them out. Last

[meteorite-list] Re: Metal Detectors

2006-10-05 Thread Muhammad Shamseldean
Dear all members of the list, I am planning to buy a brand new metal detector to be used in my meteorite hunting trips. If anyone has experience in meteorite hunting with metal detectors, please advise me. What is the best brand and model for meteorite hunting. Thank you so much in advance. Sincer

AW: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Each meteorite has its time. Nowadays the usual price for Murchison is 60-100$/g. 7-5 years ago it was at 50-100$/g. A German collector told me, that shortly after the fall, he sent a letter to Murchison enquiring about the circumstances of this new fall. A while later a parcel came back, with nic

[meteorite-list] AD - Kayunwar ebay auctions: 2 days left to bid...

2006-10-05 Thread Fred Caillou Noir
Dear Meteorites' Fans, Kayunwar offers this week again an interesting choice of meteorites on ebay. Auctions will end in 2 and 1/2 days, so that you still have time to warm your mice up, but not too much time... Here is the link to the auctions' complete listing: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtp

Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread David Weir
Don, Perhaps some people remember that Murchison typically sold for $30-40/g a dozen years ago and refuse to see the justification for such high pricing today, while others newer to the scene are content to buy high. David __ Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

2006-10-05 Thread Jeff Kuyken
Hi Don, Murchison is one of the most wildly varying priced meteorites I've seen. The old traditional price was $100/g but you usually stuggle to get that price nowadays. I've decent pieces sell many times below that. Cheers, Jeff - Original Message - From: Don Merchant To: Meteorite-lis

AW: [meteorite-list] Hammers Update (AD)

2006-10-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Hehe Michael, you lost sight of the most easiest available house-smasher: Gao-Guenie ! Penetrated the roofs of some huts, hit hen houses. Availability? On every 3rd dealer's page. Best! Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von M