[meteorite-list] Meteorite Id'ing

2008-06-26 Thread Pete Shugar
Here is a very good link to help the newbie to ID a meteorite. http://meteorites.pdx.edu/meteoriteid.htm Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [meteorite-list] Using GIS for Meteorite Hunting and Study

2008-06-26 Thread Paul
McCartney Taylor wrote "I, too, am a GIS person. Since Land ownership & GIS has just been brought up, I have to take this one step farther and mention good & free GIS packages." I do not bother with ESRI as a GIS program even though where I work has a group license for it. It takes a long, lo

[meteorite-list] Phoenix Returns Treasure Trove for Science

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Baalke
FROM: Lori Stiles (520-360-0574; [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Phoenix Returns Treasure Trove for Science University of Arizona June 26, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander performed its first wet chemistry on Martian soil flawlessly yesterday, returning a wealth of data that for Phoenix scientists was like w

[meteorite-list] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Soil in Chemistry Lab, Team Discusses Next Steps

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Baalke
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[meteorite-list] NASA Spacecraft Reveal Largest Crater in Solar System

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Baalke
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Re: [meteorite-list] Using GIS for Meteorite Hunting and Study

2008-06-26 Thread Del Waterbury
One huge difference between Google Earth and all the other GIS software packages I've seen so far (except a few) is the fact that I don't have to fork out 5,000+ dollars to use it... Google Earth only costs me 20 bucks a year. Don't get me wrong because I'd love to use the high end GIS software

Re: [meteorite-list] Landowner Lookup Question

2008-06-26 Thread Del Waterbury
One huge difference between Google Earth and all the other GIS software packages I've seen so far (except a few) is the fact that I don't have to fork out 5,000+ dollars to use it... Google Earth only costs me 20 bucks a year. Don't get me wrong because I'd love to use the high end GIS software

Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite

2008-06-26 Thread Sean T. Murray
The Nantans I've seen (like the one you mention) don't have such angular/crystal features line the one David showed... I agree it is possible, just didn't look quite right... David - Is yours attracted to a magnet? Silica Metal is not... so if his is attracted to a magnet, it is something e

Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite

2008-06-26 Thread Ruben Garcia
What bad news? You didn't think it looked like this nantan meteorite? http://www.mr-meteorite.com/nantan.htm To me this is the only picture that looked like yours... what did I miss? Ruben Garcia Phoenix, Arizona http://www.mr-meteorite.com http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=meteorfright&

[meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite

2008-06-26 Thread David & Kitt Deyarmin
Thanks for all the replies. I will relay the bad news to my friend __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Using GIS for Meteorite Hunting and Study

2008-06-26 Thread McCartney Taylor
I, too, am a GIS person. Since Land ownership & GIS has just been brought up, I have to take this one step farther and mention good & free GIS packages. Someone just brought up ESRI as a GIS progam, and I would like to discourage people from using it. ESRI gives you piecemeal crippled software th

Re: [meteorite-list] Landowner Lookup Question

2008-06-26 Thread David O Henderson
I am a GIS person and handle most data for a lot of places. Its now amazing what is online as far as county records in the US. Vertualy all states now have a GIS database with landowner data bases. Texas is a good example. You can usually just do a search on something like "delaware property tax re

[meteorite-list] Earthites on the moon

2008-06-26 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080626-am-earth-moon.html Bits of Ancient Earth Hidden on the Moon By John Ruley Astrobiology Magazine posted: 26 June 2008 06:55 am ET Some scientists believe that at least one meteorite found in Antarctica preserves evidence of ancient life on Mars. Now,

[meteorite-list] World's dummest geologist

2008-06-26 Thread Darren Garrison
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Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 26, 2008

2008-06-26 Thread Jerry
Cool. Look at those happy faces. Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:17 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 26, 2008 http://www.rocksfromspace.org/June_26_2008.html

Re: [meteorite-list] Landowner Lookup Question

2008-06-26 Thread drtanuki
Mike, The easiest way is to go the the county court house and visit the county clerk and county land tax people. There are public records of all landowners. You will need to know the location in Township, Range, and Section (or part section, for example R54W, T12, 1/2 NE SEC 13. Best of l

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 4716: RFS Picture of the Day - June 24, 2008

2008-06-26 Thread Pete Shugar
It seems that NWA 4716 was not approved till 6 Mar 08 and I purdhased this one on 7 April 07 so it was still provisional at the time of purchase. Therefore the name tag Provisional is (was) valid. Pete - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:

Re: [meteorite-list] Landowner Lookup Question

2008-06-26 Thread McCartney Taylor
You'll have a problem. The CAD (county appraisal district) will only have the property info and the mailing addy of the person in question. Often that mailing addy is a PO box, so no crisscross phone # for you. You'll have to send a letter. Courthouse records including a plat map or the loca

Re: [meteorite-list] Landowner Lookup Question

2008-06-26 Thread mmorgan
I have to look up landowners almost daily when I am out in the field for my job. I always go to the county assessor first. Many now have GIS maps of the area you are looking at that are available on-line. None will give you phone numbers, so you will need to do a reverse address lookup on a sit

[meteorite-list] Landowner Lookup Question

2008-06-26 Thread Mike Bandli
I am hoping that some of you experienced meteorite hunters can answer a question: What is the simplest/easiest way to lookup private landowner information? More specifically, if I want to find information that will allow me to contact a private landowner of a very remote area here in the Pacifi

[meteorite-list] The Gyro-Gravitational Spin Vector Torque Dynamics of Main Belt Asteroids in relationship with their Tilt and their Orbital Inclination.described by using the Maxwell Analogy for grav

2008-06-26 Thread Darren Garrison
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Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 26, 2008

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Gheesling
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[meteorite-list] Mars hit by huge object four billion years ago, study finds

2008-06-26 Thread Paul
Asteroid impact made Mars two-faced, Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/06/25/scimars125.xml Giant impact explains Mars dichotomyEurekAlert (press release), DC http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/ciot-gie06230

[meteorite-list] 100th Anniversary of the Tunguska impact Nature issue

2008-06-26 Thread Paul
The latest issue of Nature (Volume 453 Number 7199) celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Tunguska impact. It has papers and articles about impact events on the Moon and Mars and NEOs. The URl for this issue is: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7199/ The articles and papers include:

[meteorite-list] AD - Ebay Auctions ending - Planetaries etc

2008-06-26 Thread Jim Strope
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Re: [meteorite-list] Dr. Jeffrey N. Grossman Chondrule paper in Science

2008-06-26 Thread Jeff Grossman
People who study the origin of chondrules try to select chondrites in which the effects of secondary shock and heating are minimal. Semarkona, in our paper, is a good choice because it is petrologic type 3.01 and only lightly shocked. Except for a small amount of glass in the outer parts of s

[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 26, 2008

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