[meteorite-list] Take a Spin With NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology (LDSD)

2015-03-27 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4526 Take a Spin With NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory March 26, 2015 NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will be flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the

[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: March 25, 2015

2015-03-27 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES March 25, 2015 o Pitted Landforms in Southern Hellas Planitia http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_038821_1235 These mantles are composed of ice-rich sediments that degrade as the ice sublimates away. o At the Head of a Kasei Valles Cataract

[meteorite-list] NEOWISE Spacecraft Data Available to Public

2015-03-27 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4524 NASA Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Data Available to Public Jet Propulsion Laboratory March 26, 2015 Millions of images of celestial objects, including asteroids, observed by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE)

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2015-03-27 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 5582 Contributed by: Michael Hofmann http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=03/27/2015 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] Paleohydrology of the Jezero Crater Paleolake System, Mars

2015-03-27 Thread Paul H. via Meteorite-list
Ancient Martian lake system records two water-related events Kevin Stacey, Brown University, March 25, 2015 https://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/03/jezero http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/bu-aml032515.php Goudge, T. A., J. F. Mustard, J. W. Head, C. I. Fassett, and S. M. Wiseman,

[meteorite-list] The Chondrule Conglomerate Endcut For Sale - RARE

2015-03-27 Thread Jeff Kuyken via Meteorite-list
Hi all, It's been a long time since I've posted or even actively traded but I have something special available. Some of you may have already seen it on Facebook but here is the offer for those of you who haven't: ONCE IN A DECADE HISTORIC OFFER! The Chondrule Conglomerate! NWA 2892 (H/L3) -

[meteorite-list] Newly discovered 2014 YB35

2015-03-27 Thread drtanuki via Meteorite-list
Newly discovered 2014 YB35 with a diameter of 440m-990m to pass on 27MAR2015 SEE TABLES NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE!!... http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2015/03/neos-asteroids-close-approaches-to.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the

Re: [meteorite-list] Link between the potentially hazardous Asteroid (86039) 1999 NC43 and the Chelyabinsk meteoroid tenuous

2015-03-27 Thread Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list
Hi Shawn, The presumed association between Chelyabinsk and (86039) 1999 NC43 is dependent on whose computed orbit you believe for Chelyabinsk. If you use the Popova-Jenniskens-Emel'yanenko-et al orbit, (86039) is not a bad match, though the orbital inclinations differ by 2.2 degrees. Of the dozen

[meteorite-list] Link between the potentially hazardous Asteroid (86039) 1999 NC43 and the Chelyabinsk meteoroid tenuous

2015-03-27 Thread Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
Hello Listers For those that cant get enough science, here you go :) Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com Link between the potentially hazardous Asteroid (86039) 1999 NC43 and the Chelyabinsk meteoroid tenuous Abstract

[meteorite-list] AD: Etched Agoudals, Newest H4 chondrite from Hungary, Chelyabinsk collector SET, Thin Sections, Darwin Glasses, etc

2015-03-27 Thread cbo via Meteorite-list
Dear Collectors! Ending soon in weekend on my E-Bay some meteorite, Thin Sections auctions. See here: http://www.ebay.com/usr/cbo891 Agoudal IIAB iron quality etched end-cuts with rare pattern: 20.8 gr - reheated Rim + Neumann-lines, quality etched - 90USD 12.67 gr - schreibersite +

[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Algeria, Arizona, NWA, United Arab Emirates

2015-03-27 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks via Meteorite-list
Hi Bulletin Watchers, There are 10 new approvals from the hot deserts. Link http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=%2Asfor=namesants=falls=valids=stype=containslrec=50map=gebrowse=country=Allsrt=namecateg=Allmblist=Allrect=phot=snew=2pnt=Normal%20tabledr=page=0 Best regards and Happy

[meteorite-list] AD-Affordable Troctolitic lunar meteorite

2015-03-27 Thread Gary Fujihara via Meteorite-list
Aloha Meteorite lovers, The Big Kahuna has slices of a troctolitic granulitic lunar meteorite NWA 8687, which was acquired out of Morocco in 2014. Several smooth, sandblasted light green-tan stones with no fusion crust, were acquired out of Morocco. The stones’ cut and polished surface reveals