Jerry,
A superb and exemplary contribution to the list! A
great story, informative, and exactly on-topic. The
links were a great touch. Thanks and well done.
I still have my first (central Nevada) find, and will
be keeping it till my last rock moves on. It likely
will be the last rock to go. (
Hi all,
We all can tell stories about taking a newbee friends or relative out
to a strewn field and they find a meteorite.
Try to beat what my sister came up with. moon rocks! They are
about the size of a silver dollar. and she is selling them for $7 to
list members - which IN
Hello Barb (and list),
"Mark, Im new to the meteorite-list but surmise from reading that
youve got a good handle on meteorite history. Do you have any insight into
the following:"
I am going to assume (you know what they say about that) and guess that you
were directly this question to
Is there a way to get this in digest mode, one big email a day rather than
50?
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It would make sense. My first thought was a large mower when I heard the
story. I once saw one throw a (~300g) chuck of metal nearly 100 metres and
end up going through the rear window of a car in an adjacent car park. It
was just a miracle that it didn't hit someone.
Cheers,
Jeff
- Original
Hi Ruben and the List,
This is a great topic.
I still have the first meteorite I purchased. It is a
small Canyon Diablo.
I also have the first meteorite that I found, a small
Tungsten Mountain.
There is also joy in giving away meteorites. This past
Christmas, I gave a small Tungsten Mountain
if Mike Farmer [and probably other meteorite hunters] didn't have those
sometimes less than desirable qualities, predatory attitude, arrogance, in
some degree, would we have access to as many meteorites? the guy must
suffer constantly from jet lag, so that might explain his irritability and
h
Mark,
You will find this list to be many of the following;
Informative
Knowledgable
Generous
But you will also find it to be;
Fractious
Backbiting
Competitive
Ugly at times
I for one apologize to you for the latter negatives and hope you can ignore
them
and focus on the former positives. Th
Hi,
I got a so-called "Alert" several days ago when
I posted a reply to Martin Altmann's query about
costs of space telescopes versus weapon systems;
supposedly it was from Martin's ISP, except that it
wasn't.
On dissecting the "message" I found a substantial
block of embedded "data" wh
I've tried to reach this site twice since it was first announced. Anyone else
unable to reach it?
Gary
-- Original message ---
New Sikhote-Alin site:
http://www.sikhote-alin.org/
Regards,
Michael Johnson
SPACE ROCKS, INC.
http://www.spacerocksinc.com
AOL now of
Just a note from a new member. Since I am fairly new to the meteorite field, I
have been mainly watching the postings and learning what I can. I've posted a
couple of questions and purchased a few items from some of the members, and I
can say without a doubt that the members have been very, ve
Perhaps you can learn to
delete anything from me since my posts annoy you. I
will not answer another post from you, so delete my
email and website address as well. Block my email and
that will spare you from reading about my exploits,
new meteorites, and threats of robbery of my home.
we hope...
By the way, my parter is a gun dealer, so any attempts
at my home and collection will be met with an
unpleasant surprise for the attemptee. Arizona
provides very clear laws providing me with the use of
deadly force for protection of ones life and property.
I am sure you know all about that.
ridic
Hi Bill,
I won't add to the points covered by Norbert.
When I first saw one of Al's sale, I thought it was fake.
I emailed 'flabster' via eBay and asked how he had
acquired the fragments. He simply replied, "easy, walking
along the streets with a magnet in a plastic container
and frequently remo
who IZ the owner?
Edwin Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The owner of the main mass
of News Orleans is a long time collector and dealer of meteorites and fossils
from a small town in the suburbs of New Orleans. He and his wife have a shop
and a museum and they intend to keep the mai
New preparation technique: hammering!
- Original Message -
From: "Bruce Yankewitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:26 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] New Orleans
>
> Seems to me that virtually all of the New Orleans meteorite to reach the
> collector market has b
i am from new orleans and this skyrock fell in my home town 2 days before my
birthday. i am a proud owner of a 57 gram piece w/ crust and drywall fibers on
it. it is a favorite skyrock. pix available upon request.
Bruce Yankewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, Matt, I understand that there
Dear friends,
>From time to time, I take the time and patience to read what is happening in
this list.
Invariably, Mike Farmer is exchanging insults with someone...
If this list was something near neutrality, this gentleman would have been
banned long, long ago...
Anyway, from a certain distance
New Sikhote-Alin site:
http://www.sikhote-alin.org/
Regards,
Michael Johnson
SPACE ROCKS, INC.
http://www.spacerocksinc.com
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AOL at AOL.com.
To the list,
Thanks for the info concerning metal detectors. I think that I'll go with
the Gold Bug 2. Now, if you'd bear with me, I have a few more questions. Are
there any "used" Gold Bug 2 detectors available? I'm retired from a cell to
cell ministry at San Quentin Prison thr
Here is something I have tried and seems to fix the email delay
problem for me.
(I'm on a MAC so I don't know what you PC folks will need to do) When
I want to create a new message, I go to the bottom of an email and
select the link "Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com for a "new
message"
Was any suspicious strong odour detected? Sulphur? Rotten eggs?? Any other???
Wast it found to be "red hot" or just "warm".. at body temperature?
Send it to a lab a.s.a.p.!
- Original Message -
From: edward moore
To: mark ford ; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thursday, March
Mark,
I'm new to the meteorite-list but surmise from reading that you've got a
good handle on meteorite history. Do you have any insight into the
following:
A piece of this specimen is at ASU for positive ID. It is stoney, does not
attract a magnet, with lots of large condrules. The time (
I am pretty sure this is not somebody sending a virus
to the list. I am using yahoo web based email and just
sent a text email in my ad posting that generated this
for me so even if my computer did have a virus it
would not have been sent with my email (Unless you
received an attachment which I di
I've received three fireball reports in the last few minutes from
Michigan and Ontario. I usually consider multiple out-of-area (Colorado)
reports significant since I don't get many. The event was at 1955-2000
EDT, roughly north to south, blue-green with lots of fragmentation,
terminal point ap
Thanks Tom,
I'm running a comprehensive system scan right now so soon I shall know if I've
got
a 'bug' or not. Did you receive the same 'blocked message' that Bill and Dean
got?
Gary
-- Original message ---
Gary,
I got your message via the met list. I use a Mac so n
Bill, Dean and list,
I use Nortons and it is up to date. If my puter is infected I will unsubscribe
until I get things straightened out. Anyone else get this message from my
address?
BTW - I got both Bill's and Dean's posts to the list. SOMEthing is causing
this
'backlash'.
Gary
> When
When I posted my ad this morning about 200 meteorites
ending on ebay below is the similar message that I
got:
Not sure what is going on but it is either some sort
of virus or some server is malfunctioning. I got a
copy of my ad posting so I dont think anything is
actually getting blocked
Sincerely
Hello List,
I do -- barely. I found a very small (olivine bronzite most likely)
chondrite about 4-1/2 yrs ago. Nice little (very little) stone with
fusion crust visible on most of it. I only had a 10x loupe at the
time and couldn't really see it as good as I was wanting to, so I
bought
Bill,
If you're asking me I haven't the foggiest. You got it from my email address?
Gary
> Gary,
>
> What the heck is that?
>
> Bill
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Gary,
What the heck is that?
Bill
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When a meteorite fell hereabouts, I spent a few hours googling and was out the
door. I picked up everything I saw. Not only do I have the first meteorite I
found, I still have all the first suspect rocks.
I mounted them all on a board, in a row, in the fashion of those depictions of
evolution f
Direct Hit, Matthias!
Giacometti is - together with Jean Tinguely - the most famous Swiss
sculptor:-)!
Best regards,
Peter
Matthias Bärmann wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> comparing the big Gibeon with Giacometti you probably mean .
>
> http://www.artnet.de/Images/magazine/news/weidle/weidle10-0
Hi Kevin, List,
That brings to mind a fond memory.
It was in the late winter of '57 and the sun was barely beginning its
work day
in West Texas by starting to illuminate the landscape through the cold,
gray,
dismal, misty, low overcast morning. I was with my mineralogical mentor
on yet another
While technically two rules have been violated
(Posting personal messages and attacks) the content in
my opinion more than justifies it.
After all, if there is somebody who is going to make
an effort to physically hard somebody who goes
meteorite hunting or somehow hamper a legitimate
meteorite sea
Hi Peter,
comparing the big Gibeon with Giacometti you probably mean .
http://www.artnet.de/Images/magazine/news/weidle/weidle10-05-05-7.jpg
?
;-)
Best, Matthias
- Original Message -
From: "Peter Marmet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteoritenliste"
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:4
Last sunday I loaded over 200 NWA meteorite on ebay.
Over two dozen including one over a kilo was started
at only a penny.
They have now begun ending and will all end over the
next few hours. Mostly under 10 cents a gram so a
great opportunity to get some NWA meteorites cheap.
Quite a few CV3, meso
Bill,
Is this a rhetoric question?
Norbert
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Norbert,
What's wrong with this picture?
Bill
> -Original Message-
>
> Bill,
>
> Maybe you could do some research prior to posting such a comment?
>
> First, IMCA is not selling meteorites (some IMCA memb
Hello,
I sent four e-mails to two different e-mail addresses but all the e-
mails were returned.
Regards, Peter
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My first message was also scrubbed
Ken,
Thanks for YOUR reply. In regard to street crumbs and given the track record of
geologists lately, I'd be hesitant to purchase any of that N.O. rubbish.
I've yet to sell any of the PF crumbs I've accumulated and I don't need Paul
Sipiera to rec
Ken,
Thanks for YOUR reply. In regard to street crumbs and given the track record of geologists lately, I'd be hesitant to purchase any of that N.O. rubbish.
I've yet to sell any of the PF crumbs I've accumulated and I don't need Paul Sipiera to recognize a substantial micro.
A sample of
Norbert,
What's wrong with this picture?
Bill
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:37:14 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: AW: [meteorite-list] New Orleans
>
> Bill,
>
> Maybe you could do some research prior to posting
Hi all,
I'm sure I am atypical. For years I sold, traded,
lost, or gave away just about every meteorite I ever
found. It wasn't till about a year or two ago that I
actually started collecting them. Even now I only hold
on to the very best of what I find. I really regret
selling some meteorites thou
Mr. Eman,
It's always so interesting how differently the same words can be interpreted.
I know that IMCA doesn't offer authentication blah, blah, blah.
I know how an auction works. I've been buying and selling all my like.
I was an IMCA member. I dropped my membership when dues became mandatory
Hi Mike,
No - no bong for over 35 years
Clearly I was wrong - people DO want to hear about it. So,
go for it.
Pray for Proud Tom!
Best wishes, Michael
on 3/11/07 11:10 AM, Michael Farmer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This from the same Michael Blood who though
Hello All,
I recently acquired some great GIBEON individuals from an old Swiss
collector.
I can offer them at a very good price. Please have a look:
http://www.marmet-meteorites.com/id7.html
Furthermore I have a wonderful Millbillillie individual for sale on
ebay right now:
http://search.eb
I still have the first meteorite I found. A 263 gram Gold Basin that I
found in 1997. You never give the first one up! Jack
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary K.
Foote
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:09 PM
To: meteorite-list@meteoritece
I have yet to find one but I do have the first one I acquired - a 12.3g CD with
magnetite coating.
http://www.meteorite-dealers.com/canyondiablo.html
Gary
> who still has the first meteorite they ever found?
> I do, a Henbury Iron found in December 1989. It looks like a ducks foot.
> Kevin, VK3
I have attempted to log into my account at meteorite central in order to
change my email settings to receive a daily digest instead of individual
emails, as I am finding myself drowning in a flood into my inbox, along with
all the other floods.
When I click on your account, on the meteorite ce
This from the same Michael Blood who thought that the
list wanted to hear about threats from some Nigerian
scammer? So Michael, we all need to know about your
Nigerian scam emails, and their threats against you
(and 300 million other people in the same email)
something that has been going on since
John, some of us are in the middle of everything
because we are the ones bringing home the bacon, or
meteorites so to speak. By the way, the post was not
private, since he posted the same thing to the list,
minus the threat.
I will remind you next time you cross the line on the
list, and you have
Hello Everyone!
Meteorite-Times for March is now up.
http://www.meteorite-times.com
We'd like to welcome Ruben Garcia to the Meteorite-Times team who will have
a new Meteorite Hunting Q&A article each month.
We have posted some addition Tucson photos by Keith Vazquez so have a look.
And again T
Bill, Norbert, Dave, and All,
Sorry for this duplicate, but the first hasn't turn up on the list yet.
Hi Bill,
I won't add to the points covered by Norbert.
When I first saw one of Al's sale, I thought it was fake.
I emailed 'flabster' via eBay and asked how he had
acquired the fragments. 'Flabs
FYI... here is a link to the analysis of the NO that I received from Al
http://tinyurl.com/2l4dyf
Dave
IMCA #0092
Sec.BIMS
www.bimsociety.org
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Sterling K. Webb wrote on Sun March 11, 2007
>Hi, List,
>
>Thanks, Paul, for those links.
You and the list might be interested to know that
there is a competing session Carolina Bays. A more
mainstream point of view on their formation will be
given at the Geological Society of America Southea
Point of information, the IMCA doesn't vouch for nor
authenticate meteorites--the SELLER does and, when you
get down to stats that is the pretty much the way for
98% of ebay auctions.
Bill, Do I detect from your snide wording that no one
will nominate you for membership?
Elton
--- Bill <[EMAIL P
Hello,
I'm desperately searching for information about the
trajectory and strewnfield of the Nulles meteorite
which fell in 1851 in Spain.
Does anyone have detailed information, old publication
about this ?
The only reference I found is "Lithologia meteorica"
from Profesor Joaquin Balcells, Barc
Nice site.
Every time I see a big SA I wonder how one would look as a 50mm sphere :)
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Bill,
Maybe you could do some research prior to posting such a comment?
First, IMCA is not selling meteorites (some IMCA members are), and Al
Falster is no IMCA member. Go and check our members list at www.imca.cc ...
Second, you can't "buy" an IMCA number - each applicant for IMCA membership
ne
Hi Bruce,
After the fall on the Fausset home, Al Falster (ebay seller 'flabster'),
a geologist from the University of New Orleans and a group of students
collected impact fragments off the streets surrounding the residence.
Since then, Al and others have been selling the small 'street' fragments
Ken,
Most of us know about the N.O. excursion. Point is, how reliable can the
authenticty of street crumbs be? Can the IMCA vouch for each and every crumb
that's sold by a member of your org.? I have buckets of very nice crumbs from
PF that I could market. Can I sell if I buy an imca number or
Hi,
I received some of the very first stuff - picked up the next day in the
roadside by a friend of mine who is a pegmatist in the Uni of NO. He sent
me about 35g and virtually all was in fragments. It fell on my birthday!
The main mass went thru the roof of the Faucett's house.
Personally I h
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