RE: [meteorite-list] Brenham Project

2006-10-21 Thread Moni Waiblinger-Seabridge
And thank you for sharing it all with us Mr. Mani and Steve! Wonderful achievements! Sincerely, Moni From: "Philip mani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: [meteorite-list] Brenham Project Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:13:47 -0500 This letter is my first post to the Meteorite List after being a lon

Re: [meteorite-list] P-T Extinction: 'SickEarth' Book Recommendation

2006-10-21 Thread Mr EMan
What a segway! Based on what I read there was evidence of a sick earth but Peter Ward's research showed a very rapid extinction of land animals. I just finished reading "Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History" b

[meteorite-list] Ad World's smallest pocket scale

2006-10-21 Thread Mike Martinez
Hi Everyone   I have some wonderful scales for sale.  I weighted a 241 gram meteorite on one and reweighed the same meteorite on an $1800.00 scale and it was accurate.  That is incredible for something that can fit in your watch pocket.  Check it out.    http://www.meteorflash.com/SMALL.J

[meteorite-list] Brenham Project

2006-10-21 Thread Philip mani
This letter is my first post to the Meteorite List after being a long-time reader.  I am the fortunate beneficiary of much recognition from so many of you related to my Brenham Project with Steve Arnold.  Thank you for your kind words and encouragements.  With this posting, I wanted to publ

[meteorite-list] A probable iron meteorite fall in Italy many time ago

2006-10-21 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
Hello Today my goldsmith have show to me 2 little rounded " balls " of iron with a grey dark crust well visible and some rust. He have say its of a person have take this 2 pieces many years ago after this is fall near the house of this person. The rust have the tipycal smell of the meteorites rust

[meteorite-list] Need Source For Bulk Tektites

2006-10-21 Thread Ed Deckert
Hi everyone, I am trying to obtain a source for bulk quantities of Tektites. Not too small, but not huge either. Perhaps the size of a US 25 cent piece at the very smallest, and at the most, up to the size of 3 US 25 cent pieces in a triangular configuration, or 4 of them side by side in a 2

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism (Info Please)

2006-10-21 Thread E.P. Grondine
jeez Bob, and all I was trying to do was to come up with a good excuse to personally examine that Krasnojarsk RSPOD Oct 15. You're just about ready to handle some of my asteroid and comet impact correspondence. Ed --- Rob McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list > > What I have ben

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - October 22, 2006

2006-10-21 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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[meteorite-list] Henbury Auction Ending Today - AD

2006-10-21 Thread Jeff Kuyken
G'day, Just a reminder that there's a nice 220g Henbury individual ending today. Nice specimens around this size are extremely difficult to get in Australia now and this one is currently going for a fraction of its value! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&item=120042289479 Che

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism (Info Please)

2006-10-21 Thread Rob McCafferty
Hi list What I have ben able to find personally on chondrule formation is rather sketchy. Even the otherwise comprehensive Encyclopedia of Meteorites by O. Richard Norton seems to skim over the mechanism in a paragraph. It's almost as if there is something which defies explanation and scientists

Re: [meteorite-list] Radar locates meteortite story in LA Times.

2006-10-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:56:51 -0600, you wrote: >Where do I get my radar gun? Can the radar be tuned to find other types of stories in other publications? __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism

2006-10-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:41:48 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >> Chondrule textures depend on the extent of melting >> of the chondrule precursor- material when cooling >> starts. > >Kind of begs the question - chodrules formed by >collision, which causes melt - consider if one started >from a steady mol

[meteorite-list] Radar locates meteortite story in LA Times.

2006-10-21 Thread doctor death
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Re: Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism

2006-10-21 Thread E.P. Grondine
Thanks Darren - now this is more like it - h --- Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.aspbooks.org/custom/publications/paper/index.phtml?paper_id=2447 > Chondrule textures depend on the extent of melting > of the chondrule precursor- material when cooling > starts. Kin

Re: [meteorite-list] Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Cause: 'SickEarth'

2006-10-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, Ah, press-release-science! The part of such announcements that is annoying is that there is no room in a press release for evidence, unless it's one piece of new-discovery evidence. None of that here. It's a theory... So, as I read the (by now) many press pieces on "Sick Earth Syn

Re: Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism

2006-10-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:58:23 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Hi Darren - > >Thanks - much has been lost in the stroke. I also seem >to remember a "long slow cooling" involved in >chondrule formation - > Googling "chondrule formation" comes up with lots of stuff, much of it pretty densly technical.

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism

2006-10-21 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Darren - Thanks - much has been lost in the stroke. I also seem to remember a "long slow cooling" involved in chondrule formation - I am thinking that effervescence following a sudden release of pressure might be a better process description - good hunting, Ed --- Darren Garrison <[EMAI

[meteorite-list] Polandmet auctions ending OT AD

2006-10-21 Thread PolandMET
Hi again. 15 auctions ending in 24 hours including CV3 CV3-anomalous CR2 ODIO L6 IMB L3.1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110044409830 This piece make me realy crazy. I have cut some ordinary meteorite fragments. I could expect anything special in this low quality materia

[meteorite-list] "BESSEY SPECK" INFORMATION NOW ON EBAY

2006-10-21 Thread dean bessey
In light of the recent discussion on this list about Bessey Specks and in the interest of new list members who were not around a few years ago when bessey specks came into existance I have listed this ebay auction to explain how it all started (And your chance to get your very own Bessey Speck). Se

[meteorite-list] AD: EBAY NWA CLEARING OUT SALE

2006-10-21 Thread dean bessey
I have been pretty quite meteorite wise lately and didnt feel like updating my website for sold items so I have listed a couple hundred meteorites on ebay. These are mostly items that I have offered in the past but in an effort to clear out old stock, get ready for new meteorites next month, and to

[meteorite-list] nearly nailed part three

2006-10-21 Thread Bob WALKER
Hi listees A fellow member was asking me if I recalled the name of a meteorite fall where a guy got mud splattered on him... My few remaining pieces of grey matter remind me that ENSISHEIM fits into this category but are list members aware of any other falls with similar circumstances - plea

Re: [meteorite-list] Portales Valley Q

2006-10-21 Thread David Weir
Michael, This was the subject on the list just a year ago. I had expressed my favor of the journal article by A. Ruzicka et al. (2005), which referred to PV by a new term -- H-chondrite, metallic-melt breccia. Jeff Grossman posted the following in reply, which actually does seem like a comple

Re: [meteorite-list] Portales Valley Q

2006-10-21 Thread Robert Woolard
Hello Michael and List, I don't have a final, definitive answer to your question. It is one that I, too, have been seeking an answer to for a long time. Here is a link to a fairly recent article that raises some good points: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept05/PortalesValley.html Rober

Re: [meteorite-list] Portales Valley Q

2006-10-21 Thread Michael L Blood
Does anyone on the list know the current status of classification for Portales Valley? When it first fell, I believe it was merely classified as (H6), which I thought was insulting to one's logic. Then, I heard the classification had been changed (about time). However, I recently saw a Michael Cott

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism

2006-10-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:12:56 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I think I would be right in saying that the usual >mechanism proposed for chondrule formation is >precipitation at low temperatures over time. No, actually it isn't. Chondrules are usually proposed to be products of rapid melting. __

[meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism

2006-10-21 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - I think I would be right in saying that the usual mechanism proposed for chondrule formation is precipitation at low temperatures over time. But I am wondering: could chondrule formation be linked to the release of pressure? Could it be like a soda-pop, where when you take the cap off

[meteorite-list] email to the list from Phil Mani

2006-10-21 Thread Paul Harris
Dear List, Phil was having difficulties getting his email to post to the list so I am forwarding it for him. From: Philip mani To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:13 AM Subject: Bren

[meteorite-list] new email address

2006-10-21 Thread steve arnold
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2006-10-21 Thread steve arnold
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2006-10-21 Thread steve arnold
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RE: [meteorite-list] Re: Ad New Lunar & Seymchan & "Bessey Specks"

2006-10-21 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Mike, list - Just when "Bessey Specks" were finally out of my conciousness, along comes another cut lunar - Okay. How about "cuttings" as in "cuttings from NWA999 Lunar/Martian meteorite preparation by " as an alternative to "Bessey Specks"? Put that on the tag alongside your picture of

[meteorite-list] Is that beer on your tie? (yes, on-topic)

2006-10-21 Thread Darren Garrison
Don't know if they are serious about the mention of meteorites or not, but if so some of us might want to take them up on the offer. http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/25122/;jsessionid=448543B377A09AAA4E7FF120AC9CB3BF Is that beer on your tie? A molecular biophysicist helps fund his lab w

[meteorite-list] About the meteorite of Prambachkirchen, in GERMAN!

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Marmet
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