Re: [meteorite-list] question on using a macro flash ring for photgraphing meteorites

2009-10-13 Thread i...@niger-meteorite-recon.de
Hi Glenn, others,   You may try working with full spectrum daylight lamps. They emit a spectrum very similar to natural sunlight. By using two, or even better three lamps, you will be able to avoid hard cast shadows. In combination with dimmers you may simulate every daylight situation experienced

[meteorite-list] North America comet theory questioned was “Dryas all wet”

2009-10-13 Thread Paul
In http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057294.html , Darren Garrison wrote: “ http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091012/full/news.2009.997.html North America comet theory questioned” Rest of text deleted. The full reference to the article at the above URL is: North

Re: [meteorite-list] Southern America museuns meteorite trades

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi André, I guess, you have to delete Argentina from your list. I'm not fully sure about, but due to the new legislation, where Argentinean meteorites are handled like artefacts, they aren't allowed to be exported anymore. It is hard for the Argentinean curators and scientists, but I fear, they

Re: [meteorite-list] Alleged Peruvian Meteorites For Sale :-) :-(

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas Webb
Paul and list, Beware when buying from Shamans (witch doctors)! :) Thomas --- On Mon, 10/12/09, Paul bristo...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Paul bristo...@yahoo.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Alleged Peruvian Meteorites For Sale :-) :-( To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Monday,

Re: [meteorite-list] Southern America museuns meteorite trades

2009-10-13 Thread Eduardo
Hi Martin and Andre That's not right. The Argentine law specifically mention NEW finds and falls. Until now the only two meteorites involved are Berduc and Santa Lucia (both falls from 2008) A museum can legally export older finds and falls (December 2007) Eduardo -Original Message- From:

Re: [meteorite-list] Alleged Peruvian Meteorites For Sale :-) :-(

2009-10-13 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Paul and List, They are all witch-doctors, even the western ones in white coats. ;) Best regards and clear skies, MikeG On 10/13/09, Thomas Webb webb...@yahoo.com wrote: Paul and list, Beware when buying from Shamans (witch doctors)! :) Thomas --- On Mon, 10/12/09, Paul

Re: [meteorite-list] Alleged Peruvian Meteorites For Sale :-) :-(

2009-10-13 Thread Mike Hankey
I find meteorites like this all over PA. Damn all this time I've just been throwing them away. :) On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Paul bristo...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Friends, When I came across the below so-called / alleged meteorites from Peru in a sponsored link on Ebay, I did know

Re: [meteorite-list] Southern America museuns meteorite trades

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Eduardo, does that mean, that e.g. Campos found before the end of 2007 can still be exported from Argentina without permit? If yes, why was Eric Twelker then attacked? And what shall this law prevent, if all further finds, without new observed falls, could be pre-dated by finders... Martin

[meteorite-list] Fear of impacts, bad techniques, Morrison, Mars Nuts, lack of money

2009-10-13 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Darren, Paul - On yeah, and the KT comet impact did not kill the dinosaurs. Keller told us all about it, and it was repeated again and again and again. Well, let's see: People naturally want to deny that recent impacts have taken place. Provide them with any flimsy way of denying it, and

Re: [meteorite-list] Southern America museuns meteorite trades

2009-10-13 Thread Eduardo
Hi Martin Campo del Cielo is a special case. There is a provincial law from 1970 that protect all the meteorites from Chaco province. Although some part of the Campo del Cielo strewnfield (about 5%) is in Santiago del Estero province, when you get to customs you have to prove that they were

[meteorite-list] Holocene Start Impacts

2009-10-13 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi - I need more money and less cr*p from some people: 2009 FALL AGU San Francisco, CA Field-Analytical approach of land-sea records for elucidating the Younger Dryas Boundary syndrome SECTION/FOCUS GROUP: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (PP) SESSION: Younger Dryas Boundary:

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Terror

2009-10-13 Thread Meteorites USA
For those of you who are afraid of meteorites, you now how even more reason to be afraid. Be afraid, be verrry arrrid... Mhahhahahahahaha! http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/1255461617310570.xmlcoll=6 Regards, Eric Wichman Meteorites USA

[meteorite-list] Where the ETs are hiding

2009-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
Hopefully, they aren't wild things. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=what-do-we-really-know-about-the-ku-2009-10-13 What do we really know about the Kuiper Belt? Fifth dispatch from the annual planets meeting By George Musser FAJARDO, Puerto Rico—It smacked of a cunning plan.

[meteorite-list] Another Fall - maybe we'll get a new record for falls

2009-10-13 Thread Greg Stanley
List: Take a look: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1188311.shtml?cat=500 Meteorite streaks across NM sky syndAds =

[meteorite-list] Meteor over The Netherlands

2009-10-13 Thread Rob Lenssen
Dear List, And an other one. A large meteor has been seen, Oct. 13th at about 19:00h local time, over The Netherlands: http://twitgoo.com/42p74 Numerous fireball sightings have been reported from all over The Netherlands. Mostly reported direction is West-to-East. Most reports speak of a

[meteorite-list] The Invasion has Begun

2009-10-13 Thread Greg Stanley
This is exciting Greg S. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ __

Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Cosmic Object Caught On Camera

2009-10-13 Thread Linton Rohr
Yowza! Looks like a good one, Dennis. I hope the puzzle pieces fall into place. Linton From: astror...@hotmail.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Cosmic Object Caught On Camera Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:29:58 -0500

Re: [meteorite-list] Where the ETs are hiding

2009-10-13 Thread Glenn Skinner
If you really want to know where ET is hiding it's on the moon, but they are very tiny, take a close look at this 4mg speck of NEA001, do you see the skeleton? http://www.observingstars.com/nea001.jpg __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] photgraphing meteorites

2009-10-13 Thread Glenn Skinner
Hi Michael I have one of the lightboxes like the one advertized in the skymall link but I have three lights, gives a even light but not bright enough for my camera in macro mode. your flourescent light box looks interesting, I'll have to take a closer look. Thanks! Glenn On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at

[meteorite-list] Achondrite Originals, Auctions Ending - AD

2009-10-13 Thread Greg Hupe
Dear List Members, In the on-going quest to bring more original and rare meteorites to science and collectors, I have yet another set of eBay auctions ending tomorrow, Wednesday, October 14th. There are 14 meteorite auctions and 'Nearly Half' are Planetary, and with great detail, size and

Re: [meteorite-list] Where the ETs are hiding

2009-10-13 Thread Carl 's
I see a cowboy holding his hat with his right hand. carl Glenn Skinner wrote: If you really want to know where ET is hiding it's on the moon, but they are very tiny, take a close look at this 4mg speck of NEA001, do you see the skeleton?

[meteorite-list] The search for meteorite bits among the goose droppings

2009-10-13 Thread Paul
The search for meteorite bits among the goose droppings The Globe and Mail by C. Freeze and A. M. Paperny, Oct. 13, 2009 http://tiny.cc/MeteoritesGooseDroppings http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-search-for-meteorite-bits-among-the-goose-droppings/article1321365/ Astronomers