Re: [meteorite-list] AD - New Unsual Achondrite - Eucrite NWA 6264

2010-08-16 Thread Carsten Giessler
Hello Greg! Yes it's strange, i have sent the Email one time but it never went through yesterday... Then i tried it again, and nothing happened. Now, this morning i see it's there 5 times, omg... Best greetings, Carsten Greg Catterton schrieb: The list has been acting up really bad. I d

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - New Unsual Achondrite - Eucrite NWA 6264

2010-08-16 Thread Carsten Giessler
Yes i'm very sorry, this was by accident, i have problems posting to the list. Carsten star_wars_collec...@yahoo.com schrieb: This has been posted 5 times now... Greg Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Carsten Giessler Sender: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] The emperor of angrites

2010-08-16 Thread Greg Catterton
It is a nice stone, I doubt anyone could argue that. With a Total known weight of over 16kg, there is more of it then all other angrites put together. Very nice to have so much available to collectors. Over half the weight of all angrites in one stone... wow. Makes my 235g angrite look so small.

[meteorite-list] The emperor of angrites

2010-08-16 Thread Edwin Thompson
Hello fellow list members, there has been a lot of talk about the "king of angrites". So we decided to introduce you to the Galactic Emperor of all angrites. D'Orbigny the emperor of the meteorite galaxy; it is the biggest, baddest Sith Rock in all the Galactic Empire. This main mass is 2.3 ki

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: New Website

2010-08-16 Thread Mike Miller
Very nice site great job! On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Matthew Martin wrote: > Aloha Everyone, > > Now that I'm finally happy with its appearance and have most of the bugs > worked out of it, I'm pleased to announce the launch of my new site: > www.meteoritetreasures.com > > I've spent months

Re: [meteorite-list] Newcomers and the Meteorite world

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Hupe
Hi Mike in CO, Magnetic susceptibility is a difficult question to answer. A CEREGE (CNRS), Geophysics and Planetologyscientist from France flew out here to Laughlin, NV, U.S.A. to conduct magnetic susceptibility studies on several of our planetary pieces including NWA 5000. He spent hours plot

Re: [meteorite-list] 2010 Perseids

2010-08-16 Thread Michael Murray
If you happen to be in southwest Colorado sometime, I could direct you to a place to watch the skies from at Ridgway State Park that is a great spot for viewing. No lights. Many of the local stargazers group go there to set up their equipment for viewing. Best place I know of in this ar

[meteorite-list] AD: New Website

2010-08-16 Thread Matthew Martin
Aloha Everyone, Now that I'm finally happy with its appearance and have most of the bugs worked out of it, I'm pleased to announce the launch of my new site: www.meteoritetreasures.com I've spent months preparing the site, loading inventory and writing code and making alterations, but it'

Re: [meteorite-list] Newcomers and the Meteorite world

2010-08-16 Thread Michael Murray
This is probably the 'dumb question of the year' but, is there any magnetic susceptability detectable on NWA 5000 or, for that matter any of your planetary pieces? See, told you it was going to be a dumb question. Mike in CO On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Adam Hupe wrote: Thank you, Gre

[meteorite-list] AD-New Taouz fall stones

2010-08-16 Thread Gary Fujihara
Aloha listoids, At 3:00 am in the area of Taouz, 70km southeast of Erfoud, many people witnessed a very bright bolide accompanied by a sonic boom and fragmentation event. For lack of a better name, and with all due respect to my Moroccan friends I am calling these Taouz fall stones, although th

[meteorite-list] AD : The oldest rock on Earth : 4.28Ga !!!

2010-08-16 Thread Fabien Kuntz
Hello, a last AD for now, few slices of a paraggneiss called "faux-amphibolite", the oldest rock known on Earth, with an age of 4.28 billions years old! A Hadean crust relic (with possibly Late Heavy Bombardment evidence, based on Os isotopes arguments). I obtained samples directly from the

[meteorite-list] AD-New Taouz fall stones

2010-08-16 Thread Gary Fujihara
Aloha listoids, At 3:00 am in the area of Taouz, 70km southeast of Erfoud, many people witnessed a very bright bolide accompanied by a sonic boom and fragmentation event. For lack of a better name, and with all due respect to my Moroccan friends I am calling these Taouz fall stones, although th

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Rings

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Scherff
Hi, Do you want to alloy gold with meteorite dust? Peter -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Jose Villavicencio Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 5:58 PM To: Meteorites Subject: Re: [me

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Rings

2010-08-16 Thread Jose Villavicencio
Thanks for the advising, pictures, and links sent. Is nice to see that other people share the same idea. But how about mixing gold with meteorite dust (converting the same martian example into dust)? Also how much will be enough to make it noticeable on this way?

[meteorite-list] NASA, Mavericks Launch Study of Earth's Atmosphere

2010-08-16 Thread Ron Baalke
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2010-08-16 Thread CJ Lebel
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[meteorite-list] AD - New Unsual Achondrite - Eucrite NWA 6264

2010-08-16 Thread Carsten Giessler
Dear Listees, i have a new Achondrite-Eucrite classified now. It's NWA 6264, a very fine grained, shocked basaltic Eucrite breccia. This is very unusual material, unlike any i have seen before. It looks like lunar! I have a few slices (there will not be to many, because the TKW is low, only

[meteorite-list] NWA 6264

2010-08-16 Thread Carsten Giessler
Hello Bernd, All, there are two different sites, but anyway, at both sites the Nr. 11 is already sold ;-) Anyone who is interested to view the site can use this site now: www.gi-po.de/ebayfolder/nwa%206264%20eng.html (Hopefully the link is not broken again, i have problems sending links or htm

[meteorite-list] AD - New Unusual Achondrite - Eucrite, NWA 6264

2010-08-16 Thread Carsten Giessler
Dear Listees, i have a new Achondrite-Eucrite classified now. It's NWA 6264, a very fine grained, shocked basaltic Eucrite breccia. This is very unusual material, unlike any i have seen before. It looks like lunar! I have a few slices (there will not be to many, because the TKW is low, only 2

[meteorite-list] AD - NWA 6264 Unusual Achondrite - Eucrite

2010-08-16 Thread Carsten Giessler
Dear Listees, i have a new Achondrite-Eucrite classified now. It's NWA 6264, a very fine grained, shocked basaltic Eucrite breccia. This is very unusual material, unlike any i have seen before. It looks like lunar! I have a few slices (there will not be to many, because the TKW is low, only

[meteorite-list] AD Tamhakht and NWA on eBay

2010-08-16 Thread Tomasz Jakubowski
Dear List Members I have a 2 auction on eBay http://shop.ebay.com/meteoritepoland/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340 All question please write to my address illae...@gmail.com All the best Tomek Jakubowski IMCA #2321 __ Visit the Archiv

Re: [meteorite-list] Newcomers and the Meteorite world

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Hupe
Thank you, Greg, It is both a desert patina and fusion crust. The gray area is where the fusion crust was etched very thin by the prevailing winds and sand over the 1,000 year period it spent in Western Sahara. You can still observe contraction cracks in the gray areas where the crust is so th

Re: [meteorite-list] C is for collectors

2010-08-16 Thread Linton Rohr
Good point, Steve. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I think we have a fine group of officers and directors. While I don't know all of them personally, I can't imagine them perpetrating the kind of nefarious treachery that some folks seem to be concerned about. I appreciate them volunteering their time

Re: [meteorite-list] Newcomers and the Meteorite world

2010-08-16 Thread Thunder Stone
Adam/Greg: Very impressive. Is that a fusion crust on NWA 5000 or desert varnish? Greg S. > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:31:50 -0700 > From: raremeteori...@yahoo.com > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Newcomers and the

[meteorite-list] AD: One Day Only For This One-

2010-08-16 Thread michael cottingham
Hello, Check Out This One Below: (One Day Only At This Price!) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220622427962#ht_1292wt_1139 Also: LARGE SALE GOING ON! SEE ALL ITEMS ON SALE IN MY STORE! http://stores.ebay.com/voyage-botanica-natural-history Thanks Michael Cottingham 

[meteorite-list] C is for collectors

2010-08-16 Thread Steve Dunklee
Seems to me the C in IMCA stands for collectors. If it was a dealer orginazation it would be the IMDA. When shopping on the internet for meteorites or related material I know I can trust the high ethics of members of the IMCA that any purchase made is of the highest standards and quality. With m

[meteorite-list] perseids from fl keys

2010-08-16 Thread mckinney trammell
saw some very nice ones from 3 miles offshore of lower keys. most looked 2 b chondrites w/ a few cv3 thrown in fro extra lighting effects. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] Newcomers and the Meteorite world (was STOLENmeteorites - from Allen Shaw)

2010-08-16 Thread Barry Hughes
If you can't understand what I just wrote, no problem..I can't either..I'm challenged in that respect. If I were a seller and belonged to the IMCA (which will probably never happen now)...I would find it very hard to talk about these problems. I want the IMCA to know that I receive several emails f

[meteorite-list] FW: Blaine Reed

2010-08-16 Thread Dennis Miller
>> > > You guys are funny! You're just trying to get Blaine in trouble with > his wife, "Foxxy", at least that was her name in Tucson > > > > > From: cspr...@islandnet.com > > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:56:35

[meteorite-list] Animal Farm - Was: Newcomers and the Meteorite world

2010-08-16 Thread bernd . pauli
"Brings memories of reading Animal Farm in high school...it's going to blow up one of these days." Animal Farm, Chapter 10: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Collectible Meteorite Newspapers - Magazine Subscription & Meteorites

2010-08-16 Thread Meteorites USA
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Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Collectible Meteorite Newspapers - Magazine Subscription & Meteorites

2010-08-16 Thread Meteorites USA
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Re: [meteorite-list] Newcomers and the Meteorite world (was STOLENmeteorites - from Allen Shaw)

2010-08-16 Thread Barry Hughes
If you can't understand what I just wrote, no problem..I can't either..I'm challenged in that respect. If I were a seller and belonged to the IMCA (which will probably never happen now)...I would find it very hard to talk about these problems. I want the IMCA to know that I receive several emails f

[meteorite-list] Carsten's New Unusual Achondrite - Eucrite, NWA 6264

2010-08-16 Thread bernd . pauli
Hello again, Listees, Listoids, Eucrite Lovers http://www.gi-po.de/ebayfolder/nwa%206264%20eng.html Here is the correct (and updated) US-link to Carsten's NWA 6264 Best wishes, Bernd __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-l

[meteorite-list] Carsten's New Unusual Achondrite - Eucrite, NWA 6264

2010-08-16 Thread bernd . pauli
Hello All, http://www.gi-po.de/nwa%206264.html Just a short note to let you know that no. 11 is no longer available because this little beauty is now part of my meteorite collection :-) If it wasn't for the tell-tale Fe/Mn ratio of 31.62, you could easily mistake that unique eucrite for a lunar

[meteorite-list] AD - New Unusual Achondrite - Eucrite, NWA 6264

2010-08-16 Thread Carsten Giessler
Dear Listees, i have a new Achondrite-Eucrite classified now. It's NWA 6264, a very fine grained, shocked basaltic Eucrite breccia. This is very unusual material, unlike any i have seen before. It looks like lunar! I have a few slices (there will not be to many, because the TKW is low, only 2

Re: [meteorite-list] 2010 Perseids

2010-08-16 Thread Anita Westlake
Hey Guys: What I wouldn't give to see just a star! I live between the busiest airport in the world, and the city of Atlanta. The only thing I see at night are muggers and the occasional fire fly. Okay, just kidding: fire flies are hard to see too! Anita Fr

Re: [meteorite-list] Newcomers and the Meteorite world

2010-08-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Greg, Al, Barry... >I just was surprised to find that other dealers, and a fair amount of them dont have personal collections Hmm Greg, how would you quantify that percentage of dealers, who don't have an own meteorite collection? My own impression is, that those, who haven't any are quite exc

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Rings

2010-08-16 Thread Mark Ford
Hi Jose, If it's any help, for my other half a few years ago, I had a crescent moon pendant made of out 18k Gold, complete with texture and craters on the surface, one of which has a piece of DAG 400 (Lunar meteorite) set into it, there was also a diamond in a separate crater on the tip of the cre

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Rings

2010-08-16 Thread Mark Ford
And ... forgot to say - treat it like you would an opal or emerald, i.e keep it dry don't clean it in an ultrasonic bath.. One thing also to bear in mind with Iron meteorites, is as they contain Nickel, this can irritate some peoples skin.. just bear in mind that's all. Mark -Original Messa

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Rings

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Scherff
Hi, I would recommend against using a soft stone in a wedding ring. Over time the meteorite will most likely become scratched or chipped. For occasional wear (or short marriage) go for the meteorite ring. Peter -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com