Re: [meteorite-list] AD-FOR SALE: GREAT PRICE$$ (2) Unique Austrian Meteorite stamps (Meteorite dust in the stamp itself!!)

2009-10-27 Thread Becky and Kirk
Hi All, I have (2) Austrian Meteorite stamps for sale This stamp has Meteorite dust bits in the stamp itself! A very cool item. No longer available. Produced in March of 2006 by Austria. Has tiny bits of a Chondrite Meteorite imbedded in the tail of the Meteorite on the stamp! Very unique

Re: [meteorite-list] Largest 'Fall' Meteorite

2009-10-27 Thread Kelly Beatty
Jason et al... Only two meteorites are ever known to have created real craters upon falling; Carancas and Sikhote-Alin. there's also Sterlitamak, a 1990 fall in Russia that left a 10-m crater: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992Metic..27R.276P clear skies, Kelly J. Kelly

Re: [meteorite-list] Where are the thin section experts?

2009-10-27 Thread Ruben Garcia
Hi all, Carl suggested that I list everyones guesses as to what they think this meteorite will be classified as. Here is a partial list, (as I will be adding to it ) many meteoriticists and collectors have seen this stone, here are some of the brave souls that have dared to venture a guess. Come

Re: [meteorite-list] Odessa

2009-10-27 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - When I visited Odessa I was told that it was suspected to be the impact of a fragment related to the Barringer impactor. My suspicion is that the Barringer impact is seen in the spike of C14 in the INTCAL98 chart around 45,000 BCE. So what is OSL dating anyway, and how accurate is

[meteorite-list] Munich Friday-Evening Fliegerbraeu

2009-10-27 Thread Martin Altmann
...takes place, as every year. Friday, 8 p.m. after the show, in the Fleagerbroy in the nearby village Feldkirchen. Fliegerbräu Sonnenstrasse 2 85622 Feldkirchen-Riem http://www.fliegerbraeu.de If you have any questions, just stop over at our table, Hall A5 booth A5.252, where you can also

Re: [meteorite-list] Where are the thin section experts?

2009-10-27 Thread Greg Stanley
80659e1a0910271151l71d4cbamdea18d9e6774...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Ruben: What is the scale of the thin section you posted? Greg S. Date: Tue=2C 27 Oct

[meteorite-list] Gold Pultusk Coin - looking for...

2009-10-27 Thread Marcin Cimala
Hi Im looking for source of gold Pultusk coins. Some time ago it was available but now I cant find any. :( -[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]- http://www.Meteoryty.pl marcin(at)meteoryty.pl http://www.PolandMET.com marcin(at)polandmet.com

[meteorite-list] Bright light in sky causes commotion

2009-10-27 Thread Greg Stanley
Can anyone shed some light on this? Greg S. http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/news/x1615057499/Bright-light-in-sky-causes-commotion !-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;

[meteorite-list] Blast in Bone a result of falling meteorite: Experts

2009-10-27 Thread Greg Stanley
List: Anyone hear about this? Greg S. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/10/27/blast-bone-a-result-falling-meteorite-experts.html !-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;

Re: [meteorite-list] Where are the thin section experts?

2009-10-27 Thread Adam Hupe
Hi Ruben and List members, My eyes are calibrated for Lunaites right now having just returned from a Mojave hunt. I trained my eyes before the deep desert trip in hopes of actually finding one. After hiking 62 miles last week, I did find a few breccias, some fossil camel bones, an ordinary

Re: [meteorite-list] Bright light in sky causes commotion

2009-10-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Greg, List, IF a meteorite were to fall near McPherson, Kansas or in McPherson County, it would be a marvelous kind of coincidence. It was while teaching at McPherson College (in McPherson, of course), that H. H. Nininger first became interested in meteorites and eventually left his job

Re: [meteorite-list] Blast in Bone a result of falling meteorite:Experts

2009-10-27 Thread Kelly Beatty
Greg... Anyone hear about this? please see: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/65960457.html Djamaluddin is simply regurgitating what NASA's NEO office posted a few days ago: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news165.html#report ... which in turn was issued October 19th by Elizabeth Silber

[meteorite-list] Where are the thin section experts?

2009-10-27 Thread bernd . pauli
Just like Adam, I've been desperately looking for triple junctions, ... none :-( Unless it is something anomalous my recent guess (olivine diogenite) is wrong because diogenites do have triple junctions! I've been looking for chondrules or fragments of chondrules, ... none :-( Metal-rich +

[meteorite-list] [AD] 665 GR. Henbury Slice, Cape York Slice 495 GR

2009-10-27 Thread Jan Bartels
Listoids, Right now on Ebay. 2 slices, Cape York 495 gr. and Henbury 665 gr. full slice. http://cgi.ebay.com/Henbury-Iron-Meteorite-Etched-full-slice-665-grams_W0QQitemZ170399183349QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item27ac9531f5

Re: [meteorite-list] Where are the thin section experts?

2009-10-27 Thread Ruben Garcia
Adam, Bernd, Greg, and List members, Adam, thanks for posting your guess and congratulations on your recent finds. You say you are no expert (with thin sections) but I know that you have seen more than a few rare meteorites – your opinion is valued! I have been hitting the dry lake beds nearly

Re: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry Flaherty
Outstanding Eric! -- From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:07 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki Hi Listees, Meteorite Collectors, Scientists,

Re: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Melanie Matthews
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[meteorite-list] Secret Find/Fall Coordinates and Legitimacy - Someone help me understand this.

2009-10-27 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi List, Recently I was doing some research on various meteorites for an article I am writing, and I noticed a few entries in the Met Bulletin database that give all of the details about a meteorite, but then says that the actual find coordinates are secret or being withheld. Ok, I understand

Re: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Meteorites USA
Thanks Jerry! Eric Jerry Flaherty wrote: Outstanding Eric! -- From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:07 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki

Re: [meteorite-list] Secret Find/Fall Coordinates and Legitimacy - Someone help me understand this.

2009-10-27 Thread Jeff Grossman
I can address the Meteoritical Society angle on this... It mainly began with the Labenne meteorites, Sahara x. There were hundreds of these things appearing around 1997, and scientists were already working on them. We had no prospect of getting the coordinates and faced a tough

Re: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Meteorites USA
Thanks Melanie! Eric Melanie Matthews wrote: e1bb10db57384c5ca84bc9c8933a9...@asus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 This is great! I'll excited about all the new content to be added..=20 =A0 Cheers!=20 ---

Re: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Melanie Matthews
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Re: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Meteorites USA
Hi Melanie, Listees, Only time will tell... People will love it or hate it. I don't really think there will be an in-between. It has the potential to become the worlds largest and #1 meteorite site on the internet. Do a search for anything in Google, Yahoo or Bing, and you'll notice that

Re: [meteorite-list] Secret Find/Fall Coordinates and Legitimacy - Someone help me understand this.

2009-10-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi, US Antarctic meteorite locations are kept secret and no longer published. For what reason? I don't understand - to keep the Japanese and Chinese polar programs away? Another problem could be the modern legislation of some countries too. I predict a worsening of the so far excellent find

Re: [meteorite-list] Secret Find/Fall Coordinates and Legitimacy -Someone help me understand this.

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Peterson
My perspective, as someone who neither collects nor hunts meteorites, is that it doesn't much matter. All meteorites come from the same place: space. And where they actually land rarely matters from a scientific standpoint, beyond perhaps the general region (which seems always present in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Secret Find/Fall Coordinates and Legitimacy-Someone help me understand this.

2009-10-27 Thread Martin Altmann
I recognize that there are rare cases where knowing the exact coordinates of a meteorite are essential I would say rather the opposite - as we all know, many if not most meteorites break up before they hit the ground. If one doesn't have the coordinates of one or more stones of an interesting or

Re: [meteorite-list] Secret Find/Fall Coordinates andLegitimacy-Someone help me understand this.

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Peterson
If one doesn't have the coordinates of one or more stones of an interesting or important stone, one doesn't know, where to look for more. Of course. And I recognize the importance of that to meteorite collectors, hunters, and dealers. But as a scientist, I mainly want a few grams accessible

Re: [meteorite-list] Announcing: The Meteorite Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Meteorites USA
Hello Listees, Unfortunately there's been some trouble with uncool links on the Meteorite Wiki. I'd like to apologize to everyone about the bad links on the site. Someone decided to be a jerk and post a bunch of not so cool links. I thought I had removed all the bad links from the site.