Hi list
I would like to thank everyone for this informative thread. I have not bought
any lunar/martian meteorites for quite a few years now but as the owner of a
decent collection of planetaries, bought from a small number reputable dealers
whom you will all know well that i(we) trust implicit
>
> The photo to me looks promising. Would like to see a
> closeup of it.
>
> Mike G.
yes, this one appears to be genuine. No fantastical claims, just a rock in the
loft and it looks like the real deal at this first glance
Rob McC
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A horrifying story. Glad you're ok Mike. Best regards and stay safe.
Rob McC
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The nature of this list means that I am certainly preaching to the converted
but I'll have my say anyway.
Research and discovery for it's own sake is uniquely human. It is true that it
costs a lot of money but we all know it's very little in the grand scheme.
As a gross oversimplification of thi
Walter,
There is also the intriguing possibility that they may be rather hard to spot
after they land. Once the crust has weathered, they may look almost identical
to terrestrial sedimentary rocks. It's a strange idea but there must also be
earth meteorites lying around but none in our collecti
Arrgh! I am such a grammar nazi!
It cannot be very unique. It's either unique or it isn't.
I'm so very, very sorry. Please beat me around the head with a set of clubs for
being such an appalling pedant.
Rob McC
--- On Sun, 30/1/11, Ruben Garcia wrote:
> From: Ruben Garcia
> Subject: [mete
The problem with these data is that the Atacama Desert is considered to be a
sterile environment with no microbes in the soil as well.
You can have organics but that's nowhere near the same as having life.
So they have proved that there may be organics in the perchlorate rich soil of
mars, just a
Xeno biology
If life ever began on Mars, I believe that it will still be there. The climate
cannot have changed quickly enough to extinguish microbial life and it should
thrive there not just cling on to existence.
I accept that the magnetite found in "martian fossils" could be a local
ada
I am deeply saddened by the death of Christian Anger.
I had dealings with him several times and donated mineral samples to him on a
couple of occasions and found him to be a kind and generous man.
My fondest regards go to his family at this time.
Rob McCafferty
Greg Wrote
"I am very passionate about what I do and try to keep it as accurate as
possible. When games and fraud is perpetrated by those who do not care about
the science or collectors, I get upset and tend to be vocal.
If I seem too quick to reply, or type a single word in haste or anger, I
Can somebody please explain to me two things?
1: How does this sort of crap get published
2: Why anybody thinks that publishing it is helpful when we live in a world of
idiots who only believe things that can be explained in less than 30 seconds.
Rob McC
--- On Thu, 10/29/09, Michael Groetz wr
I too, would love to read the document when it's ready.
I always think this sort of thing is like trying to work out the odds of you
winning a raffle.
You may have some sort of idea how many people are entering it but you're
really just guessing.
Am I the only one who feels uneasy that some com
It's also worth pointing out that UK law is generally pretty generous regarding
prospecting.
If you own the land, anything you find on it belongs to you.
The exceptions are Gold and Silver.
If you find them, either as mineral deposits or as relics, they are
automatically owned by the Crown (re
ia
> said he that he had
> >
> > never seen, in his lifetime, such a huge red dust
> storm of this
> > magnitude. Kirk
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Rob McCafferty"
> > To: "Phil Whitmer" ;
> >
> > Se
Yeah, I made this mental link too, although I hear the dust over cities in
Australia is red, isn't it? That, also is known to come from the outback desert.
I remember as a child, dust form the Sahara being blown up to Northern Europe.
I even remember seening it on the headlights of a car that ha
No, it's the DNA of space aliens delivered by panspermia, just like that red
dust found in india a while back.
(or more likely, what you said, something they never noticed before or what
Sterling said...which I think is what the alien DNA truned out to be in India)
--- On Wed, 9/23/09, countde.
I agree, at least in part.
Panspermia may not be the motivation to explore Europa and in truth, a decent
sub-surface examination of that world will require a far greater commitment
than $4Bn.
The NEO programme needs a far greater commitment, as does any programme to
counter such a threat that a
I too, have nothing but good things to say about Eric. When I first got into
meteorites, I bought a lunar (DaG400) and a martian (SaU008) from him.
These are both major outlays for a noob and I(partly due to dyslexia) entered
his paypal address incorrectly. He was patient, understanding, communic
> To me---believing that all life has
> originated here on Earth and then
> spread out from here is like saying that the Earth is still
> the center of
> the solar system or Universe. Andwe don't believe that
> anymore, now do
> we??
>
That is not what Mark said and to imply that he
moons (mercury no longer being a
planet) rather than 1 of 4.
Rob McC
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Darren Garrison wrote:
> From: Darren Garrison
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Slow cooling rate of irons in space
> To: "Rob McCafferty"
> Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009,
is definitely a temperature and time driven effect rather
than a pressure one. The physics and geochemistry is well understood.
Rob McC
--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
> From: Sterling K. Webb
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Slow cooling rate of irons in space
> To: "R
The "so darn cold" thing refers to objects not being lit/heated by their star.
Day sides will heat up until they radiate more heat than they absorb. Night
sides will cool as quickly as physics (and any atmosphere) allows.
If one face of Mars stayed pointing at the sun all the time, it would be qu
--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Meteorites USA wrote:
How many unknown minerals,
> and chemicals have we yet to discover? We're assuming that
> everything is pretty much the same throughout the universe
> chemically. I ask you this. How can we state that
> unequivocally? We can't..
Well, actually, we ca
>
> >>That is just hogwash in my opinion---the Drake
> Equation proves that
> life
> >>MUST exist elsewhere.
>
ERRMM! So what happens to the result if just one of the many factors happens to
have a value of zero?
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> From: Becky and Kirk
> Seems to me that the Mars rovers have
> pretty much proved that at one time Mars probably supported
> life based on their findings and observations
Really? I don't see that at all. Maybe it was the way you worded it but
it being damper there 4Ga ago than it is now does
> 47 Intelligence at the Human Level Is Rare
Yes, it seems to be pretty rare on earth as well
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Nothing unusual about this.
My first ever meteorite was a 25mg piece of Dhofar 1084. Tasting it was one of
the first things I did.
I don't recal ever having tasted a martian though it is a distinct possibility
and I was thoroughly underwhelmed by the experience.
I can tell you that eucrite tast
--- On Fri, 7/24/09, Meteorites USA wrote:
> From: Meteorites USA
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Gotta love freedom of speech
> To: "Rob McCafferty"
> Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 8:25 PM
> Hi Rob, List,
>
> No nee
I go away for a couple of weeks and suddenly I have to spend nearly an hour
deleting vitriol.
While I do not agree with any form of censorship in a public forum, with that
liberty comes responsibility. A community can only exist while people benefit
from it.
It is important that fraud is identif
Hats off to the pilot.
Rob McCafferty
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
> From: Sterling K. Webb
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Shuttle Carry
> To: cdtuc...@cox.net, "Simon" , "meteoritelist"
>
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 12:01 AM
> The ori
enough
> to boil the water in the water well it hit (true fact). Many
> witnesses to that. But there was no fuel there to burn so no
> actual fire broke out.
> > So, I can almost see why they would depict the meteors
> as hot and fiery but the real cause of fires being started
>
Seriously, I'm in the wrong job. I've spent much of the last year putting
together a mission to Mars game for our school. You can select individual crew
members. For example, one is from the Kashmir region of India, one of her
languages is a local dialect and her name is a traditional Kashmir
This is a recurrent theme, one I am interested in myself and when I first
joined this list I heard a lot of really good stuff but never saved the mails.
Earth vs lunar is quite easy to nail down. The geology of lunar meteorites tend
to be rather similar despite different physical appearances. T
On a more realistic note...(though I applaud the jocularity)
The whole fear that return samples from Mars, either by robotic mission or
manned, seems thoroughly irrational to me.
The very idea that a microbe that MAY exist on present day Mars that will have
spent 3 Aeons adapting to a cold, dr
Falls are surely when recoverable material makes it to the surface.
It would be classified as a "find" if material is recovered but the fireball
was not witnessed. This suggests serendipitous discovery but is obviously not
always the case (Antarctica and hot desert "finds" are the result of del
Great postings Elton. They take the whole discussion to a far greater level and
I fo one applaud you for it.
I like to think there are others that appreciate it and thin this is what this
list should be about.
As an addition to what you say I will say the following.
The short half life of Al2
enough, (which provides enough
> radioactive material to generate the heat AND enough lying
> over the middle to prevent the heat escaping, the body will
> melt..."
>
> How big is "big enough"?
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
> Rob McCafferty wrote:
> &
Hi Eric
You are correct in thinking that electrostatics causes the initial clumping.
The early sun would have been extremely energetic and X-ray and UV radiation
would produce electro static charging of small particles.
Once they begin to clump to a sufficient size, they will attract particles
In the UK we say "STAY ORF MY LAAAND!", usually with a farmers shotgun in hand.
--- On Thu, 4/2/09, bernd.pa...@paulinet.de wrote:
> From: bernd.pa...@paulinet.de
> Subject: [meteorite-list] How about a thread to discuss hunting ethics
> To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursda
In response.
Yes you could do that though I don't think it'd be of any scientific
significance to do so.
The initial impulse required to eject rocks with enough speed to get to earth
may produce some shock effects in the rock. You may prefer to use rockets if
you wanted pristine rocks so tha
wow, what a great site. Thanks for the link
Rob
--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Michael Johnson wrote:
> From: Michael Johnson
> Subject: [meteorite-list] WEST TEXAS METEORITE HUNT
> To: "Meteorite List"
> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 10:56 PM
> http://www.rocksfromspace.org/WTM.html
>
>
> __
$100/g may seem pricey but then we are collectors of extraordinary (indeed,
extraterrestrial) material.
If commercial value is to be placed on such items, I think the rarity of such
material would qualify it as more valuable than they actually sell for.
Out of interest, just how much do dealers
Apologies if this is a repeat posting, I thought I sent one earlier today but
it seems to be missing. Maybe the original will turn up later.
Many thanks to those who have replied to my mail and as so often, I was not in
full posession of the facts. In light of that, I'm delighted I to find I di
I thank everyone for their responses to my posting. I am also delighted with
the clear and civil nature of the responses.
It seems that my concern was largely misplaced.
I have great respect for the hunters out there getting their hands dirty to
feed my obsession and without doubt, science wou
I don't know if I'm the only person who feels this or not.
I personally felt that the offering of this new material before it was
officially classified was distasteful.
Collectors are constantly being branded as "bounty hunters" or "treasure
seekers". Surely, all collectors can see that to ob
Here's what I know
>
> 1a. Speed of sound at sea level? 1500 meters per second?
no, it's 340m/s
>
> 2. What is the approximate maximum distance a ground
> observer can see fireballs over the horizon as limited by
> the curvature of the earth? my memory also says 250 miles
I remember
An adept postulate most erudite in its expression.
I could not have put it better myself.
Rob McC
(I'm assuming that anyone not needing a dictionary for the above will realise
I'm not being sarcastic)
--- On Sun, 2/15/09, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
> From: Sterling K. Webb
> Subject: Re: [
Many people have put a lot of thought into this question.
I can't promise to provide 10 but I do have a few suggestions
Ensischeim must top the list as being the first undisputed from outer space.
Canyon Diablo for it's influence in the acceptance that cataclysmic impacts can
occur on earth
Mu
I found this and I thought it was pretty interesting. For those who don't
believe in the "global warming bull" we're being fed, it's hugely affirming. It
makes interesting reading anyway, particularly the statement that the earth
cooled by 0.7deg last year.
http://www.dailygal axy.com/my_ web
The first photo on the list looked wierd and certainly looked oily in patches.
As a lifelong skeptic, my answer to "what do I think" would be that this was a
premature April 1st joke.
Serious answers would be
a: If it really is oozing something, I've no idea what it could be
b: following from
Wow. Very interesting. I have no idea but memories of the microscope scene in
"the Satan Bug" spring to mind.
--- On Sun, 2/1/09, bernd.pa...@paulinet.de wrote:
> From: bernd.pa...@paulinet.de
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Green spot in chondrite
> To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Date
Stone tool artifacts discovered in suevite in Malaysia
http://www.researchsea.com/html/article.php/aid/3937/cid/6/research/usm_archaeological_discovery_can_change_world_history.html?PHPSESSID=b8204aec6f223e9ca02c1eae347bf168
An interesting article but maybe someone can explain to me how a group
I apologise for adding to this contentious issue but as a British subject, I
feel appropriate to make a few points
1: Yes, Mike. I think you're right, most of the rest of the world accepts Barak
Obama with open arms. There can be no denying that most of the rest of the
world thought Bush Jr. wa
This is a wonderful explanation. It is incredibly simple but almost certainly
right.
I have seen a similar effect on the windswept beaches of the Western Isles. OK,
we're only talkin about a few feet but you get a similar effect (before the
tide comes in and wipes it clean).
Often I have seen
I share your skeptism, Mark.
I thought it had already been established that X-ray and UV dissociation of CO2
and H2O could be the source of the carbon and hydrogen in the martian
atmosphere that could also produce methane in the minute quantities. Oh,
sorry...that won't sell newspapers, will it
it,
> unless the cluster was VERY bunched together. The Earth
> would be long
> gone!
>
> The Earth's orbital velocity is about 30 km/s and its
> diameter is about
> 12,750 km. So the Earth moves its diameter in about 425
> seconds. If the
> comet pieces were fart
This is not a new idea. Mike Baille's book "Exodus to Arthur" makes interesting
reading on the idea that comets may have triggered many human catastrophies in
the past.
His book is based on dendochronology with support from other sources.
At the time of publishing c.2000, there was a gap in the G
--- On Sat, 12/6/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I highly doubt it will be in Tucson, if it is then it is
> illegal, and I
> would not touch it. India doesnt scare me much, but Canada
> sent people to Tokyo
> two years back to look for fossils. They don't play
> games.
>
So it appear that it is true. If Eric can be accused then we must all be
pirates.
Please excuse me while I jet off to Somalia to hijack another oil tanker.
Cordially
Rob McC
--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Eric Twelker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Eric Twelker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [mete
--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Million Dollar Fake Meteorite Bust
>
> That story makes absolutely no sense as presented. There
> must either be some
> mistake an translating the curren
say that. As a UK citizen, I'm not footing the bill)
Rob McCafferty
--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life - shame on NASA
> To: meteorite-
Thanks for sharing those pics Steve (And my, you really are tall, you dwarf
Bob. As Scott Adams says, big people are scary. They take up too much space and
emit a high pitched, disconcerting noise that only people under 5ft6in can
hear.)
You've been a lucky boy. There's nothing quite like gett
I agree.
Meteorites are tangible and the market will recover at some point. Whatever
their value in $/£/Y/Euro/etc following the recovery, meteorites will retain
their market value.
A £1000 piece of moon rock will be worth its equivalent, whether that is $10 or
$100,000 following the recovery i
Quote the following lines:
Volcanic eruptions occur when the gas, which arrived when the world was in a
molten state and is trapped in the deep Earth, melts
Prof Ballentine and his team also identified a second signature, obtained via
studying CO2 gas from the Colorado Plateau, which is identic
I highly recommend the book "Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica - A personal
account" by William A. Cassidy.
It goes into all sorts of technical stuff and the whole history and difficulty
of the operations but is also a corking good read.
My personal favourite anecdote involves 2 grad students and
unday, July 20, 2008, 12:57 AM
> You know what I find interesting, every time a fake
> meteorite is posted on here, there is an uproar, tons of
> interest. When a real new meteorite or a fall is posted,
> the silence is most often deafening.
> Michael Farmer
>
>
> --- On
If, as quoted in the description, a picture is worth a thousand words, you'd
imagine them putting a better picture.
Mind you, with perfectly rectangular clasts, that's got to be a one off :P
I could find a thousand words to describe it. I'd just need to look up
"rubbish" and all its synonyms in
Hmmm! This seems like a bad idea. Have they not seen Superman 2? hehe
--- On Thu, 5/29/08, Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Asteroid Deflection Research Center Established at
> Iowa State
> To: "Meteorite Mailing List"
> D
Red is present.
In the terms of light, Yellow is a 50/50 mix of red and green.
So strictly speaking you'd only need colours on your calibration to perform
your tests.
A green filter would eliminate red from the yellow. A Red filter would
eliminate the green.
I suspect they used blue because pure
It's a simple case of the terminology being outdated.
The term comet dates back to Aristotle and the name means "star with hair" in
Greek. A lovely term that a child could sketch.
The term Asteroid is much more recent (19th Century). The word means "star
shaped" probably because that's how the
This is what I thought but Sterling did some hunting around and produced some
numbers that I checked. Now I'm not sure of my maths but is seems to be the
case that an object can leave the earth and hit the moon with only its escape
velocity. At that speed the impact prssures are not enough to va
If this element is confirmed, even if it is 1:10^-12 ratio with thorium, I
suspect supernova would be the source.
These are found on earth and are not subject to quite so many cosmic rays
That they are found in thorium, an already heavy element seems to suggest this
may well be the case
To still
Following an email I recieved about Mars' climate in the past, I recalled an
article I read some time ago.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
For those of you who suspect that all this talk of global warming is just a
good excuse to tax us for not freezing
Apologies if this is a repeat post. Yahoo said it failed to send.
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites lists the largest SNC as
Zagami 18,000g
Nakhla 10,000g
SaU008 8579g
The data goes back to 2002 but I don't think anything bigger than Zagami has
arrived since
Rob McC
--- On Wed, 4/23/08,
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites states Zagami as the largest TKW at
~18,000g.
Nakhla weighs in at ~10,000g and SaU--8 at 8579g.
Though these data are somewhat old now, I don't think anything rivalling Zagami
has arrived since 2001
Rob McC
--- On Wed, 4/23/08, Michael Gilmer <[EMAIL PROTE
Nice review.From it I am left with a sense of disbelief that many prominet
scientists seemed to refuse to believe that rocks fell from the sky.
I assume in the book there is a reference to Anaxogoras in ancient Greece who
was the first to suggest thatvery thing...although Diogenes is the one wit
--- Michael Gilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be interesting if there was a futures
> market
> > for meteorites? That would add some price
> stability...
>
The nature of meteorites is not the same. The random
nature of their arrival makes the whole thing
unpredictable. Can you
Harald
Please could you contact me off-list as a matter of
urgency.
In anticipation
Best regards
Rob McCafferty
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Can you direct me to the info showing the return data
matching the shergottites? I was not aware of this (I
have a young family and full time job, I cannot read
it all).
That, to me is fascinating evidence I was not aware
of. My understanding was that SNC probably sample only
two of sites on mars
Sorry, came to this discussion late.
I agree, I think it is a meteorite and even I can see
it looks like a CV3.? slice. The certificate with +ve
test for nickel confused me. Do CV's contain nickel? I
didn't think they did.
--- Jason Utas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hola Pete, All,
> It's a met
In response to Moni's posting
I post here when I want to ask a question.
I've always found the responses well measured and
reasoned. The ONLY exception was my fault and vowed
not to do it again.
Today I pontificate.
I find people as I recieve them and this list has
given friendships, despite nev
Well, though I'd love angrites to be shown to be from
Mercury but I've looked at some of the papers and they
sit neatly within the CV3 realm for oxygen isotope and
thermal metamorphosing of CV3 seems to give a pretty
good approximation of angrites. I suspect angrites are
not from Mercury (though an
--- Peter A Shugar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My primary collection is Texas, of which I have 42.
> So for me the Holy
> Grail is any Texas that I don't have.
> As to your question, I only have 2 Martians NWA 998
> and NWA 1195 and I can't
> decide which is my favorite. They both display ver
I remember doing calculations at university to
estimate the size of an impact crater and for a rock
maintaining it's cosmic velocity, it tends to be
around 20:1.
The conditions for surviving to the surface are quite
exacting and with chondrite craters such a rarity, are
we looking at an absolute i
> --- Randall Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > You paid the police a service fee for driving you
> > out to the site in their 2 trucks. Gasoline is
> very
> > expensive there. Four dollars $4 a gallon if I
> > recall.
I gotta move to Peru. That's about half the cost of
"gasoline" in th
--- ensoramanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question is...Could it be possible that the shock
> veins were produced
> as a direct result of the hypervelocity impact or is
> that not
> possibleare they much more likely to be formed
> in space during
> asteroid impacts.
>
O. Richard
Meteor Crater is pretty much square. I believe
weathering has a lot to do with it. Even a desert gets
a fair bit of rain in 50,000 years.
I think I read that the original crater has been half
filled with weathered material though why it would be
square following this is anyones guess. Why not (?) ,
Though I cling to my belief that Mars is a dead rock,
the more time goes by the more I realise I know
nothing.
Still, it'd be nice to br right on something.
This debate reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's books
where a discovered microbe was declared "probably
terran".
I seem to remember one of t
More than a little ambitious if you ask me.
This is assuming that any evidence isn't vapourised by
the impact of such earthites hitting at a minimum of
2.?km/s and also assuming that such unmolested
evidence is present wherever they intend to drill for
it.
They'd be better off waiting until the pi
Hmmm! I thought Norman Pace a comedian famous for
microwaving a cat? Brits, help me out. It'll be on
Youtube somewhere.
It's all very amusing (the life on Mars thing, not the
stuff to do with cats)
--- "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> Not everybody likes this i
>
>
> **Mars will look as large as the full moon to the
> naked eye** .
Someone needs to work on their geometry.
Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows.
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I'm not thinking of doing an expedition to Mars or
anything but I was wondering if anyone has published
any work regarding meteorites on Mars? I know a couple
have been spotted by the rovers already having looked
at just a very small area of the surface.
With Mars being much colder and drier than
> In a message dated 6/20/2007 3:51:07 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> this 'NEO deflection technology' that is
> being developed, could it not potentially also be
> (technically at least)
> used to steer an impact to occur onto a 'foreign
> power's country'?
> perh
Darren,
You are my hero. I've been after something like this
for months and dared not spend £50 on a book (it's a
wife who doesn't understand the obsession thing).
I will be eternally grateful.
Rob McC
> A while back I found a book/collection of papers
> called "Chondrules and Their
> Origins"
--- samc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I get more convinced as time passes, that we *will*
> find either active
> or fossil life forms on Mars in my lifetime.
>
Don't kid yourself Mark,
I think you'd get better money if you put it on Mars
being proven to be a lifeless lump of rock and always
Fascinating article from both yourself and Ron.
It left me thinking "I could have thought of that if
only I were a little bit smarter" as I knew all the
mechanisms involved.
To see what is right in front of your face is a
constant challenge
> Meanwhile, we can
> put
> a sedimentary Martian Meteor
May I draw peoples attention to a couple of points.
1: Global warming is definitely taking place. There
can be no doubt over this
2: There is absolutely no smoking gun suggesting it is
our fault
I'm happy to accept that we would be irresponsible to
ignore the phenomena and we should take steps
This post simply underlines a theory I had presented
to me 10 years ago, that global warming is just a
phase.
If as little as 13000 years ago, the sahara was
watered grassland, and the sahara grew before
industry, how likely that we are the influence of
climate change?
I do not work for Shell, BP,
The Qui Nhon Slope Anomaly, proposed as the source of
the Australian/Indonesian Tektites seems to be a
rather elusive thing to obtain iformation on.
Does anyone have access to this paper?
Source of the Australasian tektite strewn field - A
possible off-shore impact site
Authors:
Schnetzler,
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> Mah.
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> MC
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Mah?
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