[meteorite-list] OT: comet Hartley 2 images

2010-10-12 Thread Elizabeth Warner
I realize this is a bit off topic but as many of you are also amateur astronomers... If you have been observing comet Hartley 2, I would like to invite you to submit your observations of comet 103P/ Hartley 2 on the Amateur Observers' Program website (aop.astro.umd.edu) which is collecting

[meteorite-list] Opava meteorite - iron from Czech Republic

2010-10-12 Thread Marcin Cimala
Hello Opava meteorite was on display in Ostrava on exhibition Story of the Planet Earth http://www.meteoryt.net/ebay/opava_meteorite.jpg Main visitor was Premier of Czech Republic. I bring some of my meteorites, becouse on exhibition was only one meteorite, Opava.

[meteorite-list] AD: ebay books auctions

2010-10-12 Thread Sergey Vasiliev
Hello List, I have three Russian books on ebay ending in 2 days. - Very!!! rare Pallasites Tschirwinsky P.N. 1967 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=190453620413 - The Iron Shower. Krinov E.L. 1981. Book about Sikhote-Alin.

[meteorite-list] Opava meteorite

2010-10-12 Thread bernd . pauli
Hello Marcin, Thank you for sharing these interesting photos of the Opava meteorite with us. Very much appreciated and,... don't forget to upload to them to the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. Best wishes, Bernd __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hunting (ANYWHERE)

2010-10-12 Thread Meteorites USA
Meteorite Hunting Anywhere I've been promoting meteorite hunting with a ferver and passion which I cannot express the importance and feeling of in words. People need to realize that most hunters are respectful of and follow a certain code of ethics and etiquette when hunting meteorites. Here

[meteorite-list] AD: many interesting ebay auctions ending in next time

2010-10-12 Thread Mirko Graul
Dear List members and meteorites friends, many interesting auctions ending on ebay in next hours and also in the next days. http://stores.ebay.com/Mirko-Graul-Meteorite?_rdc=1 Many thanks for interest and greetings to all, Mirko Mirko Graul Meteorite Quittenring.4 16321 Bernau

[meteorite-list] New Horizons Student Dust Counter Instrument Breaks Distance Record

2010-10-12 Thread Ron Baalke
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20101011.php New Horizons Student Dust Counter instrument breaks distance record October 11, 2010 The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, flying aboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, now holds the record for the most distant working dust detector

[meteorite-list] (AD) ebay auctions, buy it now, best offers and 10% off

2010-10-12 Thread steve arnold
Hi list.I have 13 ongoing auctions with all buy it nows and best offers to boot.Plus I'll take off 10% as well if given decent best offers plus free shipping. These all must go.Have a great night all as I recover from skin cancer surgery.  Steve R.Arnold, Chicago! http://Chicagometeorites.com/

[meteorite-list] very small possible

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Murray
Hi List, Hope you don't all throw me on the crazies pile after you read this but here goes... It was August 17 at approximately 7:15 PM. My wife Beverly and I were working on freezing some corn late in the afternoon. Earlier, I had picked about 4 dozen ears out of the garden. I had

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Hunting in NW NV.

2010-10-12 Thread Richard Montgomery
This is an extremely important issue. As a hand-shake visitor to privately held ranches here in the gold-zone in California, we leave everything as found...gates as found, land as found, holes filled and grasses replaced to grow again...all for major reasons. First, respect for the land and

[meteorite-list] very small possible

2010-10-12 Thread JoshuaTreeMuseum
Hi Michael: Great story! It's just extremely highly unlikely that a person interested in finding meteorites will ever see one fall right in front of him, especially a mini, and then recover it. What with the lack of a fireball, sonic boom, electrophonic sound waves and all the other

Re: [meteorite-list] very small possible

2010-10-12 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Michael, Weird things happen with man-made materials. For example a wood chipper with a bad repair weld could break off a piece of weld-slag during operation and hurl a small aerodynamic piece for a city block. Or it could have fallen off a passing airplane. Small bits like that tend to wash

Re: [meteorite-list] (AD) ebay auctions, buy it now, best offers and 10% off

2010-10-12 Thread dave carothers
No thanks. - Original Message - From: steve arnold stevenarnold60...@yahoo.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 7:26 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] (AD) ebay auctions, buy it now,best offers and 10% off Hi list.I have 13 ongoing auctions with

[meteorite-list] Stunning TS images of The King of Angrites NWA 6291

2010-10-12 Thread Greg Catterton
I sent a thin section of NWA 6291 to Tom Phillips to use, here is a teaser of whats to come... 1st run at a magnification of 160X in full Xpol with a 1 wave retardation filter http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/jedisdiamond/1149.jpg Hope everyone is doing good, more pics to follow. Greg