Re: [meteorite-list] (OT) - C/2017 K2

Probably not... mag 7 is current best... https://www.space.com/giant-comet-k2-earth-flyby-telescope Clear Skies! Elizabeth M Warner UMD Obs Director warne...@astro.umd.edu 301-405-6555 On 7/1/2022 11:30 AM, John Lutzon via Meteorite-list wrote:

Re: [meteorite-list] Comets - National Geographic Full Video

Wow! Pseudoscience at its best! Well done mockup, but that is NOT the official National Geographic channel. And those are not National Geographic videos! Quotes taken out of context and twisted... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 12/4/2014 6:29 PM, drtanuki via Meteorite-list wrote: List, A very

Re: [meteorite-list] Link aid- AD: Spectacular Impactites ENDING SOON on eBay!

Sorry, but isn't there a 1 ad per week limit?? He's posted 6 times this week using the excuse of can't post his link to essentially doublepost, but that's still 3 postings, and 5 too many... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 11/14/2013 1:07 PM, drtanuki wrote: Sorry List but I found Brandons

Re: [meteorite-list] Link aid- AD: Spectacular Impactites ENDING SOON on eBay!

format) and the answer to that is I have. I am using an ipad this time and had the same issue on the smartphone. I appreciate you watchdogging the list, but I would wait until a pattern was formed before making public comments. My best, Brandon On Nov 14, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Elizabeth Warner warne

[meteorite-list] OT: all-sky camera

one. Purpose would be to observe meteors, fireballs as well as other sky phenomena. My email is warne...@astro.umd.edu Clear Skies! Elizabeth Warner UMD Observatory Coordinator warne...@astro.umd.edu 301-405-6555 __ Visit the Archives at http

Re: [meteorite-list] Real UFO?

If you watch the sequence, you can see that it is a timelapse sequence that had been filmed earlier. Those are airplanes. Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 11/28/2011 4:30 PM, Greg Stanley wrote: A reflection in the camera lens. There are many different colored bright lights there. Greg S Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] EPOXI Mission Status Report - October 20, 2011

Ummm, hi Ron, you have the date wrong for this update... this is from 20 Oct 2010 (not 2011)!! We got pretty busy and weren't able to get any PI updates for a long time until the most recent one which we posted yesterday... Clear Skies! Elizabeth EPOXI webmaster warne...@astro.umd.edu

Re: [meteorite-list] [IMCA] Elections

Hi Craig, I'm on [meteorite-list] but not a member of IMCA (since I don't sell meteorites). I believe your question was posted to the wrong place. I don't see how IMCA officers have anything to do with what goes on on the [meteorite-list]. Yes, IMCA officers and members are also members of

Re: [meteorite-list] [IMCA] Elections

Well, that's possible, but our list wasn't part of the original discussion... He had to add it in to his recipients list when he sent his message... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 9/23/2011 2:51 PM, Michael Gilmer wrote: Hi Elizabeth, I think he hit Reply All and instead of just replying to the

Re: [meteorite-list] FW: High Noon!

LOL! I find it interesting how if he wins everyone else has to never, ever, sell, buy, barter, or trade meteorites in the United States, or elsewhere, for as long as they may live! However, if he loses, all he has to do is apologize... I think that to be fair he should also agree to never,

[meteorite-list] why scale is important

I've seen many discussions on this list about using some item in images to show sizes. And there are some great scale cubes out there (I've got a few from Rex). But I thought the following might be of interest. http://www.moillusions.com/2011/09/coin-makes-big-things-look-small.html Have fun!

Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto

Actually, one of the discoverers (Dr. Doug Hamilton, UMaryland) has a preference for Cerberus... Fits in with the mythology... and as the discoverers, Showalter and Hamilton get to name it... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 7/20/2011 4:38 PM, karmaka wrote: If it has to be Greek, how about

Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto

I really don't care... I was just passing along what one of the discoverers had expressed as his preference... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 7/20/2011 4:56 PM, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Hi Elizabeth: The big problem with cerberus is that there is already 1865 Cerberus, an Apollo

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sues Moonwalker Astronaut

On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Rich Jolly wrote: I have not been following this thread in great detail, just skimming the messages. One thought comes to mind is that if he was trying to sell the item that while he may have gotten it as a gift, it was maybe under the understanding that he or his family

Re: [meteorite-list] eBay questionable meteorites

I had sent him a question asking how he knew it was a lunar meteorite. Here's my exact questions: How do you know it is a moon rock? What testing have you done? Who tested it? His response was extremely rude: I am a very busy individual and I honestly don't have time to waste answering

Re: [meteorite-list] Large Bolides / Meteors Reported

Well, I think the MD fireball is just an observation of the launch of a Minotaur rocket from Wallops Island. The rocket was carrying the ORS-1 satellite. Launch occurred at 11:09pm. There were some (low) clouds in the area so it would have seemed to 'disappear'... I viewed the launch from

Re: [meteorite-list] How Do We Name Asteroids?

Hi Kevin, Please check www.iau.org/public/naming/#minorplanets Essentially, the discoverer gets to name the asteroid. You can't name one after pets though. If the discoverer has discovered more than one asteroid, s/he can name them after friends, colleagues, etc. So, it boils down to who

[meteorite-list] SL9 video

Video of SL-9 impacts taken with what telescope?? 17 years... 2011-1994 = 17 http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/sl9.html Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 6/26/2011 12:17 PM, E.P. Grondine wrote: Hi all - Thanks for the link - truly magnificent. Now where to hell is the NASA video of the fragments of

Re: [meteorite-list] Jepara Pallasite

A quick google search... seems that this was also discussed on a german list, the gist of it is that it is in classification http://www.jgr-apolda.eu/index.php?topic=6295.0;wap2 and that there is nothing else to be found online about it... A very *rough* Google translation of the description on

Re: [meteorite-list] Anyone else get or can explain this?

Yes, I got that notfication as well... but I do remember when I was submitting my payment that there was an option for 'auto-renewal' which I did select... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On Thu, 26 May 2011, Richard Graveline wrote: Hello: If you happen to keep old emails check back to your

Re: [meteorite-list] Anyone else get or can explain this?

not remember any auto-renewal statement or options when I signed up and paid for my subscription. If I did remember- I truly would not have questioned this to the list. Now I am wondering if there were variables in some of the subscription/payment form On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Elizabeth Warner

[meteorite-list] Confused about IMCA

If IMCA is supposed to be for collectors, how does being an IMCA member help with selling?? Shouldn't there be an IMSA then?? However, as I read through the IMCA website, it is more about selling/trading... I collect only, but it doesn't look like I would be able to join since I don't sell

[meteorite-list] interesting video... probably space junk...

This was posted on another newsgroup (Minor Planet Mailing List) I'm on... http://youtu.be/-jH3IIG4g-E The poster seems to think that it is more likely to be space junk (original message pasted below): Hello, Take a look at this video taken on last saturday, april 23rd in the state of Acre,

Re: [meteorite-list] Pacific Ocean Meteor seen of Coast of Japan prior to Earthquake 7APR2011

Are you sure??? That looks like an airplane to me and no mention of it being a meteor is made on spaceweather.com... Rather the story is simply about the conjunction of the moon with the Pleiades... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 4/7/2011 5:08 PM, drtanuki wrote: Dear List, A large bolide

[meteorite-list] OT: need folks who use PDS websites

/index_new2.shtml OR http://icarus.astro.umd.edu/data_sb/missions/deepimpact/index_new3.shtml Clear Skies! Elizabeth Warner warne...@astro.umd.edu __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Announces Comet Encounter News Conference

shadows they were seeing so they used shadow terminology. We know now that sunspots are not shadows, but to come up with brand new words to describe the parts of a sunspot... well, umbra and penumbra stuck. Clear Skies! Elizabeth Warner EPOXI webmaster cdtuc...@cox.net wrote: Larry, Chris

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Announces Comet Encounter News Conference

Vapor is the evaporation of boiling liquid water. And that is the only possible source of water vapor?? So, have you ever been in a cloud? fog?? What was boiling to make those then?? Again, your limited experience with how materials behave on Earth in atmosphere, under pressure and with

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Announces Comet Encounter News Conference

and updated information. So it becomes a bit frustrating when we get very little info from NASA news conferences. Again. What's new? They are still muddy snowballs Thanks. Carl -- Carl or Debbie Esparza Meteoritemax Elizabeth Warner warne...@astro.umd.edu wrote: Vapor is the evaporation

Re: [meteorite-list] re the double standards

Maybe you are getting more email than I am from the list, but I don't see any messages from Eric today (Sun 14 Nov), just 1 from yesterday (Sat 13 Nov)... Can't say about Wednesday because I don't have messages going that far back saved on my computer... So, no, I have not noticed that

[meteorite-list] Change the Subject line please!! (Was: Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?)

Many of you have thankfully gotten back to the subject of meteorites but unfortunately reply to previous messages and use the same subject line even when the subject you are talking about no longer matches the subject line! So, please, change the subject line accordingly. I'm sure I'm not

[meteorite-list] OT: comet Hartley 2 images

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] Columbia -- COLOMBIA

Actually, for Columbia, that jacket would not be out of place in the winter... but I don't think you are talking about Columbia... As someone who grew up in Columbia (SC) and now lives near Columbia (MD), I wish people would get the name of the country right... It's COLOMBIA. Clear Skies!

Re: [meteorite-list] R: Re: I: Re: Writing on Gebel Kamil iron

Well, this is very unfortunate! Once I saw that several reputable dealers had them, I didn't hold back from buying a sample. But I feel guilty... Where did the dealers get their stock from? I think that from now on, not only will I look for the IMCA number but also a statement that the

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET? - NOT!!

Because you are using low res images from the Viking Mission!! Have you gone back and looked at the Mars images taken by the myriad new/current missions that have much higher resolution?? And I did look at the pictures but saw nothing, absolutely nothing of what you described. Again, it is

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET? -- Not!!

Zooming in on low res files of old Mars images until you see the pixels is not a good way to try to get others to see your point of view. I would be more understanding if you see a house in a jumble of boulders like someone might see a dragon shape in the clouds. But that's not what you mean

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad: Scale cubes

So it's a very good thing I got mine!! All I can say is It's s cute! Thank you, Mark! And I finally have a scale cube!! Clear Skies! Elizabeth Mark Miller wrote: fact, that I'm not inclined to reorder anymore of my (more expensive) CNC machined Titanium cubes, when the current batch

[meteorite-list] meteor in northern VA???

anything more, I'll let you know... If you hear anything, please let me know... But right now, I'm leaning towards the IR Flare explanation... Clear Skies! Elizabeth Warner warne...@astro.umd.edu 301-405-6555 __ Visit the Archives at http

[meteorite-list] recommendations for weight scale, vernier caliper??

Okay, so now that I have 31 bits of space rock and 1 impact breccia and I am working on putting together my little database, I find that while many dealers usually at least provide weights, they don't always have dimensions (good to know so that I can figure out what size display cases or

Re: [meteorite-list] Bonham's auction

They've got a couple of other 'meteorites' available... the one from the POD is out of the display box... the Zagami doesn't look like the other slices I could find pictures of online... Of course it doesn't help that there is no scale indicated There's also a slice of LA 002... The only

[meteorite-list] So excited! I just got my little slice of Wisconsin!

Hi Joe, Thank you!! I just got my 4g slice of Wisconsin. It is beautiful, has some very nice crust... Got to show it off here in the office! Clear Skies! Elizabeth adastra...@gmail.com __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] 14.5g WI Fully Crusted beautiful Oriented Stone For Sale (Ad)

What I find even more funny is that because of the setting Eric had on the picture, that anybody could look at it, you don't need a Facebook account to see that picture. It would be like going to a personal website or to a picture on Flickr,... You wouldn't have been able post comments on the

Re: [meteorite-list] 14.5g WI Fully Crusted beautiful Oriented Stone For Sale (Ad)

As I was... I was pretty sure that I was not logged in when I looked at it last night... Clear Skies! Elizabeth Elizabeth Warner wrote: What I find even more funny is that because of the setting Eric had on the picture, that anybody could look at it, you don't need a Facebook account to see

[meteorite-list] joining Facebook or photosharing sites

...) Elizabeth Warner wrote: What I find even more funny is that because of the setting Eric had on the picture, that anybody could look at it, you don't need a Facebook account to see that picture. It would be like going to a personal website or to a picture on Flickr,... You wouldn't have been

Re: [meteorite-list] 40KG Ice falls from German Sky According to Chinese News

In most places they call that hail! 40KG Holy hail!! Clear Skies! Elizabeth drtanuki wrote: Dear List, Chinese news reports that a 40kg piece of ice fell from the sky in Germany: German heaven a great river of ice 40 kilos - 5 hours ago It is reported that white piece of ice of unknown

Re: [meteorite-list] Dutch Meteoritical Society- Hunt for TC3 meteorite Almahata Sitta

and they did not get to keep any pieces they collected. (I worked for Dr. Lucy McFadden, one of the other invited scientists and she's given a couple of presentations about that adventure as well.) Clear Skies! Elizabeth Warner warne...@astro.umd.edu 301-405-6555 drtanuki wrote: Dear List, Great

Re: [meteorite-list] Time to revisit Lorton?

Well, right now, we are dealing with yellow snow... (pollen) We did have some pretty torrential rains a few weeks ago which helped get rid of the last remnants of snow, but which could have washed any small pieces away that hadn't been snowplowed onto yards... I live in Alexandria (~15min

Re: [meteorite-list] Are there meteorite-collecting tours?

There are a number of astronomy tours hosted by the magazines Astronomy and SkyTelescope... I came across this one recently http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=aid=9455 Clear Skies! Elizabeth Erik Fisler wrote: There is not outfit that I know of but I've seen tours provided for

Re: [meteorite-list] A Lorton thought....

Hi Mike, I live in the area, so I'll try to take a stab at answering... Snow plowed from the streets and most lots was generally plowed off to the side of the road or lot where it eventually melted. I should have taken a picture of the pile that was in the Pentagon lot... it was there last

[meteorite-list] questions about Riker boxes or similar cases

So, I've got a growing little collection of about 20 pieces that are currently still sitting in the original wrappings, boxes, envelopes, etc that they were shipped in from you to me... Not the best way to show them off. I think I like the Riker type box but am worried about the glass

Re: [meteorite-list] AD:Almahata Sitta 2008 TC3 for sale on eBay

LOL, heaven-forbid you sneeze while trying to get an up close look at that!! Is there a minimum size for micros? Clear Skies! Elizabeth Shawn Alan wrote: Hello Listers, I would like to offer a Almahata Sitta micro on eBay for those who collect on a micro level. This is a perfect

Re: [meteorite-list] Easy comet, easy go

Umm, yes there is... it's a SOHO comet... http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007IAUC.88441U [BUT, this may be the wrong name... another website has some corrections from Howe, see below] He took 6 images and there were more images taken the next day... ... Mr Howes captured six images that

Re: [meteorite-list] Keeping a meteorite database

Hi Steve List, I would also be interested if something already exists... But making a database (using just Excel or other similar spreadsheet program, I'm also okay using MS Access) wouldn't be hard, but what fields should be included? Since I'm also new to collecting, I wouldn't know off

Re: [meteorite-list] Keeping a meteorite database

Hi Martin, Is there a link?? (Or did I miss an email?) Clear Skies! Elizabeth karm...@email.de wrote: Hi Steve it's a multilanguage version.There is only one version. You must download it, install it and then within the program, which is first in German, you can change the language (at

Re: [meteorite-list] Keeping a meteorite database

So, seeing the name of the German website (collectors software) I googled it (in English) and found apparently lots of *programs* available in English... http://www.collectionstudio.com/en/ http://www.vpackrat.com/ http://www.collectiblessoftware.com/trh.html are just a few... interesting...

Re: [meteorite-list] QUESTION RE METEORITES AND POP CULTURE

http://www.moviepro.net/movies-tagged-as-meteorite.html There were 2 Meteor movies (1979, 2009), Meteorite (movie), Meteor Storm...

Re: [meteorite-list] A simple question

So you're going to hold the Smithsonian responsible for something that happened 72 years ago?? Granted, what the reps of the Smithsonian did way back then is not cool, but I don't think that punishing the current institution is exactly fair either... I mean, if we were to search and find

Re: [meteorite-list] A simple question

the doing of the right thing. The Government is for the people not against us. Retribution is sometimes in order then forgiveness can follow? Carl -- Carl or Debbie Esparza Meteoritemax Elizabeth Warner warne...@astro.umd.edu wrote: So you're going to hold the Smithsonian responsible

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Re: Fw: Request Glorieta Mountain strewnfield map

Even I figured this one out... yes, it says unknown down in the Geography section, but if you read up near the top in the Writeup section, it clearly says Writeup from MB 97: Whetstone Mountains Arizona, United States [location information to be withheld until publication in MAPS] I

Re: [meteorite-list] Milloners only Seller response.

The listing has been removed!! Elizabeth Gary Fujihara wrote: Aloha Darren, Count, Don, list, So was this ebay listing posted by the property owner of the Dentist office, into which ... __ Visit the Archives at

[meteorite-list] funny commercial

Okay, so, http://www.spike.com/video/bud-light/3334612 Enjoy! Elizabeth __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] funny commercial

Yes, clearly the name is wrong... but there is a reason why I posted it to the list... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Elizabeth: Bud Light Planetarium??? Thanks, Larry Okay, so, http://www.spike.com/video/bud-light/3334612 Enjoy! Elizabeth

Re: [meteorite-list] Matters Arising

Hey Ya'll! I don't know the individuals involved on either side of this discussion. But not all gun owners are irresponsible. As I'm sure not all Scots are arrogant drunkards. (See stereotyping can go both ways!) And while I was not pleased to see the photos showing the irresponsible

Re: [meteorite-list] Friday talk on Almahata Sitta in Tucson

And if anyone is in College Park, MD, Dr. Lucy McFadden will be talking about her adventures in Sudan (same conference) on Thu 4 Feb, 12:30pm http://www.astro.umd.edu/events/colloquia/planetary/cal.0204.html Clear Skies! Elizabeth Warner warne...@astro.umd.edu 301-405-6555 Mark Hammergren

[meteorite-list] Meteor Storm on Syfy

So, anyone else watching this masterpiece on Syfy? http://www.apocalypticmovies.com/tag/meteor-storm/ http://www.sfuniverse.com/2010/01/29/michael-trucco-talks-battlestar-big-bang-and-one-huge-meteor-storm/ Clear Skies! Elizabeth __ Visit the Archives

Re: [meteorite-list] More on the Lorton... or Lorton hears a Who ?

Well, as a new person on the list, I was pretty surprised at the tone the list took for a few days after the Lorton fall... My first thought after reading some of the messages was parasite, vulture... And I nearly dropped my subscription. But I thought, well, I'm sure not all collectors are

Re: [meteorite-list] Lorton Fall - Petrologic type?

The WUSA9 video where they took it to SI says it's a chondrite... Elizabeth Galactic Stone Ironworks wrote: Hi List, Anyone care to take a guess as to what type Lorton will be classified as? Is there any early word? Best regards and happy huntings, MikeG