Re: [meteorite-list] NEW Plutonic Angrite - NWA 4590 "Tamassint"

2007-04-13 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List, I just want to express my views on this subject and then tend to more pressing issues. It is interesting to note that similar arguments were presented when discussing SNCs. A lot of groups had a hard time believing that these series of rocks actually came from Mars. Now, you would be

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW Plutonic Angrite - NWA 4590 "Tamassint"

2007-04-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Adam, List, The real "clincher" for the Mars rocks actually being Mars rocks is the isotope ratios of incorporated atmospheric gases. It's a clincher because we have the data from our probes to Mars, data produced by direct contact and from measurements made on the planet. Those ratios p

[meteorite-list] AD: Los Angeles and others

2007-04-13 Thread Cj ..
Hi All, I just added a 60mg piece of Los Angeles to my sale page should anyone be interested. http://crownnglorycollectibles.com/Meteorites.html Thanks, Cj _ Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft O

Re: [meteorite-list] Is EBAY bidding fixed?

2007-04-13 Thread mckinney trammell
N-A-A-A-H?! people actually SHILL bid on ebay? surely you jest?! GREG LINDH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To all, I am new to EBAY and to meteorite collecting. I have purchased 13 meteorites total. I've gotten most of them by bidding on EBAY. I've noticed that many times someone will bid for an

Re: [meteorite-list] buying pallasites

2007-04-13 Thread Michel FRANCO
Hi Harlan and list, My Seymchan are not epoxy polished! See my page HUGE Seymchan slices on my web site. Best regards Michel www.caillou-noir.com -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de harlan trammell Envoye : mercredi 11 avril 2007 23:5

[meteorite-list] Software Models Consequences Of Asteroid Strikes

2007-04-13 Thread Mal Bishop
I thought some of you might find this of interest: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070410_technovel_asteroidcomp.html "...An asteroid just 200 meters in diameter hitting one of Earth's oceans could cause tsunamis around the world. The largest asteroid strike in recent human memory,

Re: [meteorite-list] Sonic Boom in Florida?

2007-04-13 Thread FBlockland
It was a house that exploded! _http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/gen/ap/FL_Building_Explosion.html _ (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/gen/ap/FL_Building_Explosion.html) In a message dated 4/12/2007 4:08:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: [meteorite-list] Sonic Boom in Florida?

2007-04-13 Thread Leigh Anne DelRay
I think it is funny that the guy in this article who was panicked and startled had the last name of Panik. -LA DelRay Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070411/NEWS01/70411023/1006/news01 It had thunder of a sonic boom, resident says B

[meteorite-list] Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Global Surveyor Loss

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Baalke
April 13, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 RELEASE: 07-88 REPORT REVEALS LIKELY CAUSES OF MARS SPACECRAFT LOSS WASHINGTON - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mar

[meteorite-list] AD: LUCKY FRIDAY THE 13th EBAY NWA SALE

2007-04-13 Thread dean bessey
Not sure whats going on with this weeks sale but it seems like a big flop. I have 150 auctions and less than $100 in bids. Dozens of auctions still at a penny including things like a half kilo of meteorites still only bid at one cent. Maybe friday the 13th is scaring people off. See my ebay id AMU

[meteorite-list] NASA Says Stardust Samples Not Contaminated by Rocket Fuel

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19425993.400-nasa-says-space-find-isnt-just-rocket-fuel.html NASA says space find isn't just rocket fuel New Scientist 13 April 2007 Stardust looped thrice around the sun, flew past comet Wild 2 and brought back the first ever sample of comet dust. So the

[meteorite-list] In search of a hammer

2007-04-13 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - Going through some notes from 2003, I found this: >From Julius (IULII: OBSEQUENTIS AB ANNO URBIS CONDITAE DV PRODIGIORUM LIBER) "Consulship of Gnaeus Octavius and Licius Cinna (87 BCE) "56a. While Cinna and Marius were displaying a cruel rage in their conduct of the civil war, at Ro

[meteorite-list] Deep Impact Extended Mission Could Probe Deeper Into Solar System Origin

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/epoxi.html Deep Impact Extended Mission Could Probe Deeper Into Solar System Origin Bill Steigerwald NASA Goddard Space Flight Center April 5, 2007 In July, 2005, the Deep Impact spacecraft released a probe that blasted a crater in comet Tem

[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: April 9-13, 2007

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES April 9-13, 2007 o Argyre Dunes (Released 09 April 2007) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20070409a o Polar Ridges (Released 10 April 2007) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20070410a o Landslide (Released 11 April 2007) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20070411a o Storm Season (

[meteorite-list] Large Meteor Streaks Across Sky in Hawaii

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Apr/12/br/br1498307256.html 'Very lucky' folks on Maui possibly saw meteor By BRIAN PERRY The Maui News April 12, 2007 WAILUKU - A brightly glowing object that streaked across the sky above Maui was reported by a few people up early enough Wednesday

Re: [meteorite-list] Large Meteor Streaks Across Sky in Hawaii

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Jensen
Hi List I couldn't have said it better myself "Maberry said the meteor itself would not need to be very large to make a spectacular show. "They don't have to be much larger than a poi pounder to look really big," he said." -- Mike -- Mike Jensen Jensen Meteorites 16730 E Ada PL Aurora, CO

Re: [meteorite-list] Large Meteor Streaks Across Sky in Hawaii

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Peterson
Well, if you had seen it, you probably would have called it a contrail (and a lot bigger than a poi pounder, I'm sure ). "We saw a glow going over us, just like an airplane." For one to two minutes, the paddlers watched the object move across the sky, leaving a trail of smoke before it disappea

Re: [meteorite-list] In search of a hammer

2007-04-13 Thread Michael L Blood
Hi Ed, While interesting, such comments can be found in goodly numbers, however, when trying to pin down the sources of these statements, one runs into things like, "Going through some notes from 2003..." What notes? Were they notes you took from reading an article, a book or commen

Re: [meteorite-list] In search of a hammer

2007-04-13 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Mike - My own notes on Julius work. I'm sure I have copies of the exact translation from which I worked somewhere in my papers, but I seem to have ommitted it from my note. I suppose it was the initial onset of the stroke in 2003. good hunting, Ed A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE ROLES OF POLITICAL AN

[meteorite-list] AD: 411 gram Diogenite/Ebay buy it nows/Website Sale

2007-04-13 Thread dean bessey
I am in the process of reorganizing my ebay auctions and raising money to buy stuff in morocco that I will pik up in Ensisheim. I will be cancelling all my auctions next week and slowly redo them next week and would prefer to sell as much as possible before I do that. I have over 300 ebay buy it n

Re: [meteorite-list] In search of a hammer

2007-04-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, E.P., List E. P. wrote: > to put it mildly, this was a hot political topic. > The suppression of Etruscan astromancy... actually > began with... Cicero... Julius's work represents > the last real vestige of Etruscan astromancy... I agree that it was a hot, very hot, topic, but I di

Re: [meteorite-list] In search of a hammer

2007-04-13 Thread MexicoDoug
Thanks for that gem, Ed!, List, This Googled up from the event: "On the morning of August 9, 48 bc, Rome's most famous general--Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, or Pompey the Great--apprehensively prepared his troops to face the army of Rome's most successful general, Gaius Julius Caesar. Pompey's unease