[meteorite-list] Japan beautiful fireball 17DEC2013

2013-12-18 Thread drtanuki
List, http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2013/12/japan-fireball-meteor-17dec2013.html Dirk RossTokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Call for ExoMars 2018 Landing Site Selection

2013-12-18 Thread Ron Baalke
http://exploration.esa.int/mars/53462-call-for-exomars-2018-landing-site-selection/ Call for ExoMars 2018 Landing Site Selection European Space Agency 17 Dec 2013 The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI) [on behalf of the

[meteorite-list] Why Halley's Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1, 500 Years Ago

2013-12-18 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.space.com/24005-halleys-comet-linked-to-ancient-famine.html Why Halley's Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1,500 Years Ago By Mike Wall space.com December 18, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO - The ancients had ample reason to view comets as harbingers of doom, it would appear. A piece of the

[meteorite-list] What Happens to Comet ISON's Remains?

2013-12-18 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.isoncampaign.org/karl/what-happens-to-isons-remains What happens to ISON's remains? by Karl Battams NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign December 18, 2013 Apologies for going quiet on this site - it takes a while to recover from events like this! I have actually started several blog

[meteorite-list] JPL to Test New Supersonic Decelerator Technology

2013-12-18 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-369 JPL to Test New Supersonic Decelerator Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory December 17, 2013 A giant crane will tower above NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., shooting out of a hilly mesa like an oversized erector set,

Re: [meteorite-list] Chinese Rover NWA 5000 Sales - AD

2013-12-18 Thread Francis Graham
Where might one find specifications on the Chinese lunar rover (dimensions, technical details, placement of experiments, etc)? Also I am whimsically curious, when the Pathfinder rolled out on Mars, Matchbox made a nice cast-metal souvenir of it. Wonder if that will happen with the Chinese

Re: [meteorite-list] Why Halley's Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1, 500 Years Ago

2013-12-18 Thread Michael Bross
Dear listees Interesting... Mid 90s I saw a great documentary on PBS about that period of famine and the decline of the Roman Empire, with scientific evidences that the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia was the reason. Ice cores, texts from the Vatican talking about almost 30 years of dust in the

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2013-12-18 Thread valparint
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: EET 87503 Contributed by: AMN http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com