Re: [meteorite-list] Washington SpaceX fall event: debris recovered

2021-04-04 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
red in the USA, so the USA is the "State Party" here. SpaceX is the owner. IANAL, but as I read this, if SpaceX wants it back, it has to be returned to them. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek e-mail: ma...@langbroek.org http://www.langbroek.org - ___

Re: [meteorite-list] Washington SpaceX fall event: debris recovered

2021-04-02 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
which covers most of the state and appears along a > line which roughly connects Yakima and Spokane. A COPV from this Falcon 9 reentry has been revovered on farmland in Grand County, Washington: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364582/spacex-rocket-debris-falls-farm-washington -

Re: [meteorite-list] More Junk Falling From Sky: Peru

2018-02-02 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
> Meteorites are not the only stuff falling from space. > > Peru: Russian inscriptions found on metal spheres that dropped from sky > http://www.andina.com.pe/ingles/noticia-peru-russian-inscriptions-found-on-metal-spheres-that-dropped-from-sky-697964.aspx > > Yours, > > > Paul H. These pres

Re: [meteorite-list] Dutch scientists fete rare meteorite find

2017-07-02 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
I have now posted an English language story about the new Dutch meteorite on my blog: https://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2017/07/ot-broek-in-waterland-sixth-dutch.html Cheers, - Marco __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral

Re: [meteorite-list] Dutch scientists fete rare meteorite find

2017-06-28 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
Op 27-6-2017 om 17:43 schreef Marco Langbroek: > The stone weighs 530 grams and is fully fusion crust covered. It impacted on > the > roof of a garden shed near the village of Broek in Waterland, which is in a > rural area just north of Amsterdam. Some more pictures of the new m

Re: [meteorite-list] Dutch scientists fete rare meteorite find

2017-06-27 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
reason the village is named thus...). It is only the 6th preserved meteorite of our small country in 177 years time. cheers, - Marco ---- Dr Marco Langbroek e-mail: meteorie...@langbroek.org Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek __ Visit our Facebook

Re: [meteorite-list] Large Fireball Over Scotland

2016-03-03 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
From: Peter Davidson Dear Ron and Everyone on the List Some quite spectacular images were shown on the news here. As usual the broadcasters never seem to get the facts quite right. From what I saw on TV, it seemed to be a meteor or possibly a piece of space junk but what I am not sure abou

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Bright Fireball Over Europe on Halloween Night

2015-11-05 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
Op 5-11-2015 om 2:48 schreef "Beatty, Kelly" : this discussion is timely. what you've noted is exactly my understanding. just yesterday I came across a high-profile blog about these fireballs, Phil Plait's? and the writer stated that most of the light comes from the superheated vaporized part

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Bright Fireball Over Europe on Halloween Night (2)

2015-11-04 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
The recent spade of very bright fireballs is due to the Taurid meteor stream by the way, which every 5-6 years shows enhanced activity of this kind. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: d...@marcolangbroek.nl http://www.dmsweb.org http://www.

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Bright Fireball Over Europe on Halloween Night

2015-11-04 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
A lot of folks say it looked green to them, which means it may have been metallic; It is a perpetuated misunderstanding that meteor colours are primarily due to their composition. It's a science myth inspired by High School Bunsen burner experiments that appears hard to kill. While composit

Re: [meteorite-list] Social media might destroy meteorite collecting and selling!

2015-07-07 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
Peter Davidson wrote: My concern is that, having given a negative answer (and they almost without question are) to an enquiry about a possible meteorite, I (or any curator/collector) become the subject of a vicious trolling campaign and find that our professional (and sometime personal) reputat

Re: [meteorite-list] Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Safety, or Terrorism Concerns

2015-03-24 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
trend. Don't buy into the fear-mongering (but do be sensible of where you go). - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek e-mail: ma...@langbroek.org Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Mete

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 142, Issue 12

2015-01-12 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
meteorite-list-requ...@meteoritecentral.com schreef op 12-1-2015 om 7:22: From: drtanuki List, A 2-KM-Wide Impact Crater Discovered in Antarticahttp://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2015/01/antarctic-ice-impact-crater-2015-report.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo You'd think they'd come up with

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: [Geology2] Meteorite fragments discovered 20 years after bolide event in Czech Republic

2014-10-16 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
Hi all, I would like to second Eric Christensen. Pavel Spurny is a respected scientist and definitely not someone who would knowingly present something questionable. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: d...@marcolangbroek.nl http://www.dmsweb

Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?

2014-09-09 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
It is well known that arms caches were hidden in Nicaragua during the fight between Sandinista's and Contra's in the 80-ies. In 1993, one of these exploded in Managua. Maybe something like that happened again. Marco __ Visit the Archives at http://ww

[meteorite-list] Some more info Re: Meteorite theft in the Netherlands

2014-08-21 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
Marco Langbroek schreef op 19-8-2014 21:24: I have just been informed that several meteorites have been stolen during a burglary last night at the Sonnenborg observatory in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Among the stolen meteorites is a very rare one: one of the few pieces existing of the Ellemeet

[meteorite-list] Meteorite theft in the Netherlands

2014-08-19 Thread Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list
I have just been informed that several meteorites have been stolen during a burglary last night at the Sonnenborg observatory in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Among the stolen meteorites is a very rare one: one of the few pieces existing of the Ellemeet diogenite. It concerns the Serooskerken mas

[meteorite-list] Looking for Izokh & An 1983 publ

2014-04-19 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hi all, Just on an odd chance: does anyone on this list have a copy of Izokh & An, "tektites of Vietnam", Meteoritika 42 (1983), 158? Cheers, - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek e-mail: ma...@langbroek.org - __ Visit the Archiv

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway rock

2014-04-10 Thread Marco Langbroek
Well one of the parachutists seems to think someone at NASA did debunk it, since they posted a thank you for the help thanking NASA. I guess they are making that up too:) Michael Farmer Phil Metzger, who has in the past extensively modelled falling debris at Shuttle launches, has used his

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

2014-04-03 Thread Marco Langbroek
I just don't see how the camera could even focus at those speeds, the skydiver and rock intersecting at what, 300+ mph minimum? How could the camera catch it in focus? For even a split second. It is just all to crazy to believe. Michael Farmer Do not forget that both meteorite (if genuine) an

Re: [meteorite-list] Germany Swiss France Meteor 31MAR2014

2014-04-01 Thread Marco Langbroek
meteorite-list-requ...@meteoritecentral.com schreef op 1-4-2014 18:00: Hi Bernd and List had a greenish color, apparent diameter ca. 2 inches, color greenish, duration seveal seconds possibly a magnesium rich meteor? A huge Enstatite maybe? Exciting! I hope something is found As layers

Re: [meteorite-list] One of the Strangest Landforms That I Ever, > Seen (Siberia, Russsia)

2014-02-11 Thread Marco Langbroek
tion about meteorites and all sorts of other processes that might have created it. Like Matt, I would think of a Pingo-like phenomena, i.e. the result of formation and then melting of an ice lens. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek e-mail: ma...@langbroek.org http://www.marcola

Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
seum of Natural History, and the State Herbarium. The former owner indeed donated the stone to the Museum, which is an extremely kind act! - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences VU University Amsterdam - __ Visit

Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
iosa collection for a century, before passing into private hands (when the school was closed down and part of the inventory was taken home by a teacher) and after a while finally came to our attention last year. cheers, - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Faculty of Earth and Life Sc

Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
rivate hands (when the school was closed down) and after a while finally came to our attention last year. cheers, - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences VU University Amsterdam - __ Visit the Archives at http://w

Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
icked it up etcetera. With some additional archive research, we can pinpoint the fall location to a few hundred yards. Cheers, - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences VU University Amsterdam - __ Visit the Archives a

Re: [meteorite-list] Different colors of meteors/shooting stars

2013-09-10 Thread Marco Langbroek
In addition to what Chris Peterson wrote: Colours perceived in meteors are quite often a result of the composition of the atmosphere at the altitude of the meteor, rather than the meteoroid composition. Take green colours sometimes reported for meteors. Almost invariably, someone will argue

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Video 5 of SLP, MX Bolide now, posted! Another spectacular video.

2013-09-06 Thread Marco Langbroek
Count Deiro wrote: As they say"with all due respect"to those of you with vastly more experience than I in the subjectthese old eyes and the brain they are attached to have digested the visual data, then thought out the technical complexities involved in producing a series of multipl

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Video 5 of SLP, MX Bolide now, posted! Another spectacular video.

2013-09-05 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hi all, Like Rob and a few others I am very suspicious of these videos. Basically for the same reasons that Rob mentions. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: d...@marcolangbroek.nl http://www.dmsweb.org http://www.marcolangbroek.nl - ___

Re: [meteorite-list] 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteor

2013-02-17 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hi all, Piper Hollier asked me a very valid question and in the context of the discussions I think it deserves an answer to the whole list. Piper asked if gravitational curvature under influence of the gravitational attraction of Earth could mean that fragments of 2012 DA14 could nevertheless

Re: [meteorite-list] 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteor: a strong link

2013-02-17 Thread Marco Langbroek
2012 DA14 are very well established facts, even if the bolides' trajectory is perhaps not. That is the fun of this all: in this case you don't need the bolides trajectory, only the impact latitude and the 2012 DA14 encounter geometry, to 100% rule out that this was 2012 DA14 related

[meteorite-list] 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteor: no link

2013-02-16 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hi all, I still see suggestions popping up on this list about a possible link between 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteor. I want to point out that even without an accurate trajectory for the Russian bolide, a link with 2012 DA14 can be 100% rejected. The orbital geometry of 2012 DA14 and the

Re: [meteorite-list] Germany/Belgium, Holland Long Duration Bolide 13FEB2013

2013-02-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hi Dirk, others, This fireball over NW Europe was actually the decay of a Russian Soyuz r/b, the 3rd stage of the rocket that launched Progress-M 18M to the ISS on Feb 11th. See my blog: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2013/02/fireball-over-nw-europe-of-evening-of.html - Marco Dr Marco (

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible Bolide Over Lebanon, Cyprus and, Turkey 7JUN2012

2012-06-08 Thread Marco Langbroek
test from the Kapustin Yar test site. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT

2012-05-09 Thread Marco Langbroek
> On 5/9/2012 9:15 AM, Steve Dunklee wrote: Saw an near earth object last night @4:45am central time. First saw it just below polaris in the northern sky with a brightness like Venus at its brightest. where it started was obscured by a roof. It continued in an easternly direction passing the b

Re: [meteorite-list] Major Event Meteor or Space Trash

2011-12-26 Thread Marco Langbroek
Just Breaking story hundreds of requests for this event: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/12/mbiq-indicates-large-meteor-seen-in.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo As was known very quickly after the event, this was the decay of a Russian Soyuz 3rd stage, from the Wednesday launch that b

Re: [meteorite-list] ROSAT's Upcoming Reentry Greater Threat Than UARS

2011-10-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
ROSAT's orbit was at an average altitude of 149 miles Wednesday. I observed it yesterday evening: bright (mag. +1) and fast, easy naked eye object, zipping across the sky. Image of the pass here: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/10/observing-another-doomed-satellite.html ...and tiday fea

Re: [meteorite-list] UARS -- Alberta or Pacific fall?

2011-09-27 Thread Marco Langbroek
Doug wrote: "Can't they read a license plate from space?" You are thinking of the KH-12 Keyhole optical reconnaissance satellites here. These would not be so suitable for tracking UARS however, being in Low Earth Orbit and geared to make pictures of ground level. However, there is a series o

[meteorite-list] "UARS video" from Alberta - but is it UARS?

2011-09-24 Thread Marco Langbroek
Rob, others, The video from Okotoks, Alberta, looks suspect. I have the same feeling as some other people: a series of Chinese lanterns, not UARS debris. There is very little "evolution" in the series of dots. Could be wrong of course, but I have serious doubts about this report. - Marco

[meteorite-list] UARS (re: Fireball Alert)

2011-09-21 Thread Marco Langbroek
Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Slightly OT: UARS decay strategy

2011-09-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
Rob Matson wrote: A third alternative would have been to let the orbit naturally decay to a lower altitude before doing that burn. The advantage of this approach is that once the orbit is very low (as it is now), that final burn can push perigee so low that reentry is guaranteed half an orbit af

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Concorde contrail from Wales making the rounds AGAIN

2011-09-12 Thread Marco Langbroek
Interesting story Bob, pointing out that the "snowballing" effect (as you put it) of NASA's initial misinterpretation in this reverberates deeply. People look to NASA as "the ultimate experts on space matters", and in many instances they are. But in this case, NASA goofed badly. At that time

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite, satellite or...? 9/1/11, , around 9.30 pm, Mykolaiv district, Odessa - Ukraine

2011-09-09 Thread Marco Langbroek
Jay Tate wrote: The photograph was taken by a Welsh schoolboy in South Wales in October 2003. It was claimed to be a meteor, but turned out to be a sun-illuminated aircraft contrail. More precisely, the contrail of one of the last Concorde flights. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) L

Re: [meteorite-list] something comes down in Cusco,Peru

2011-08-28 Thread Marco Langbroek
Chris wrote: Stills and videos of these sort of contrails are regularly submitted as meteors or fireballs. This one is no different. I fully agree with Chris and the Count: this clearly shows an aircraft with contrail. What keeps surprising me is that in this day of worldwide ubiquitous air

Re: [meteorite-list] Named minor planets

2011-06-29 Thread Marco Langbroek
Ron Baalke) (4789) Sprattia (after Chris Spratt) (183294) Langbroek (after me = Marco Langbroek) But there must be more. - Marco Dr Marco (183294) Langbroek http://www.marcolangbroek.nl http://asteroids.marcolangbroek.nl

Re: [meteorite-list] Asteroid 2011MD Bye-bye

2011-06-28 Thread Marco Langbroek
Here's an image of 2011 MD I took yesterday morning some 5 hours before closest approach. It was already zipping fast (this is a 30 second exposure!): http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/06/ot-close-encounters-of-rocky-kind-2011.html I wholeheartedly agree with Rob: People are simply guilt

Re: [meteorite-list] Something in the air... ( = Breeze-M tank decay)

2011-05-10 Thread Marco Langbroek
rned Breeze-M tank 2001-014B, a left-over from the launch of the Russian geostationary satellite EKRAN 21 launched on 7 April 2001. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrack...@wanadoo.nl Station (b)log: htt

Re: [meteorite-list] How do you pronounce...

2011-04-11 Thread Marco Langbroek
I made a short mp3 with, in succession, the names of the four Dutch meteorites as pronounced in Dutch: Utrecht, Uden, Ellemeet, Glanerbrug: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19376096/Utrecht_Uden_Ellemeet_Glanerbrug.mp3 Feel free to use it. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek Dutch Me

Re: [meteorite-list] New detected meteorite crater?

2011-04-02 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hi list members. At position 21?35'42.75"N; 35?10'2.75"E a ring of hills is visible with a diameter of 6 miles. It might be an undetected meteorite crater. m42protosun These are igneous (volcanic) intrusive syenite, gabbro and granite structures about 230 to 140 million years old. You can ac

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball question / sonic boom

2011-03-30 Thread Marco Langbroek
Op 30-3-2011 01:33, geo...@aol.com schreef: I'd be very interested to know if people beyond the heavy end of these falls heard the sonic boom?>> Does anybody know of a fireball fall and recovery where there were NO sonic booms? GeoZay When you mean that in terms of "none reported": the

Re: [meteorite-list] Were there any fireballs near LA on Dec 1st?

2010-12-11 Thread Marco Langbroek
The TMZ video wouldn't play for me but there is a version of the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4C4J1xj1w8 To me it looks like a sunlit aircraft + short contrail. On the video, I even think I can actually hear an aircraft sound. In addition, the spectators in the video say "Plane

Re: [meteorite-list] Details on Mbale

2010-12-06 Thread Marco Langbroek
Thanks Al, I have the article now. I did some research on the boy some time ago, unfortunately there are no documented details on who he was. Back in 1992 I did see a video of the field interview with the boy (through an interpreter) made by Hans Betlem, who did te field research at Mbale.

Re: [meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites (was Temperature of meteorites)

2010-11-24 Thread Marco Langbroek
Op 24-11-2010 16:55, Murray Paulson schreef: Hi Marco: The short lived isotopes decayed 4.5 - 4.6 or so billion years ago, and only warmed the acreeted asteroid at that time. They are but a distant memory when the meteorite falls here on earth today. Hi Murray No, you are mistaken. It is not

Re: [meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites (was Temperature of meteorites)

2010-11-24 Thread Marco Langbroek
Piper et al., Without implying that ALL reports of sulphurous smells are necessarily unreliable, I do urge caution. Over my career of checking alleged Dutch new meteorite falls (all meteorwrongs!) there have been a number of cases where people reported to me "sulphurous smells" when encounte

Re: [meteorite-list] other hobbies? (addendum)

2010-09-16 Thread Marco Langbroek
Totally forgot this on my list: * collecting uniform patches from the Military (esp. Black) Space Program A number of them (not all) can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_satellites This started as a spin-off of my satellite observations, which is focussing on 'black' sat

Re: [meteorite-list] Other hobbies?

2010-09-15 Thread Marco Langbroek
Okay, here is my list: * Astronomy: observing classified satellites; * Astronomy: observing meteors (once my main activity, now much less); * Astronomy: hunting minor planets (recently less so too); * photography: macro (esp. Dragonflies) * photography: panorama * meteorite collecting; * books (e

Re: [meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst.

2010-09-11 Thread Marco Langbroek
I was quite amazed, as it seemed for an instant that a great meteor storm was brewing. The initial flash that caused me to look up and the three after spanning maybe 4 seconds and to see 4 meteors... I stayed out for another half hour hoping... But nothing more...<< I think the meteor t

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites and Humidity: Some Questions

2010-03-06 Thread Marco Langbroek
there and/or gets trapped. This was while there was dessicant in (some) of the mounts. The problems vanished once I got myself a glass display cage. My meteorites are much more stable now. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrack...@wanadoo.

Re: [meteorite-list] Maybe a Mexican Carancas?

2010-02-12 Thread Marco Langbroek
Doubts are now being raised about there being any crater or impact damage. See Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog for a summary: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/02/11/breaking-mexican-meteorite-impact/ Also, I want to point out right ahead that the suggestion that this was a

[meteorite-list] Zamanshin impact and Homo Heidelbergensis

2009-12-05 Thread Marco Langbroek
believed, dated at 0.9 Ma so I see no clear link between the Zhamanshin impact and this 1.8 Ma hominin. It is twice as old as the impact. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Institute for Geo- & Bioarchaeology (IGBA) Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences VU University Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1085 108

Re: [meteorite-list] Bolide? Maybe. Cool photo? Definitely.

2009-09-30 Thread Marco Langbroek
Darren Garrison wrote: > http://momento24.com/en/2009/09/28/shock-and-surprise-as-space-object-falls/ That actually does look like the real deal (*if* the photographs belong to the report and are not generic footage): a sunlit wind-blown dust trail left by a bolide. - Marco - Dr Marco (

Re: [meteorite-list] Space ice

2009-09-08 Thread Marco Langbroek
From: Mike Hankey Happy Labor Day Everyone, I've heard some people talk about how sometimes meteors can be big balls of ice. How common is this? Specifically what are the chances that the PA fireball I'm looking for could have been an ice ball? That would really suck. From: Richard Kowal

Re: [meteorite-list] Koenigsbrueck, Saxonia is a hot desert find

2009-07-29 Thread Marco Langbroek
What's more, this kind of things can make you paranoid about absolutely genuine finds. An example: At the time the first Neuschwanstein fragment was found, I happened to be in contact with two professional meteoriticists about something. Both they and me initially were surprised by the rusty c

Re: [meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo

2009-07-12 Thread Marco Langbroek
there are two very faint streaks well to the lower right of the main set, and there is a streak just to the upper left of the main set that is not moving parallel to the others. how does a plane make streaks like that?? Be carefull here. An attitude change of an aircraft can do that (as well

Re: [meteorite-list] Astro Mikes Meteor Streak Photo

2009-07-12 Thread Marco Langbroek
That's an interesting assessment, Dean. I have captured numerous aircraft on long exposure and they all have strobes and appear as segmented lines. By far not always. As I am on a runway approach to Schiphol, I have captured a lot of them as well. Plenty of images among those similar to this

[meteorite-list] Anyone know a 'Jude Noonan'?

2009-06-26 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hi, Anyone here getting mails from a 'Jude Noonan', e-mail bonk...@hotmail.com ? He/she sent me pictures and apparent geochemical "descriptions" of a stone, claimed to have been found in Amsterdam. He alternately suggests it is an impact rock or a moon rock. The whole is very fishy. However,

[meteorite-list] Dealers, Sellers: Please INSURE your shipments

2009-06-02 Thread Marco Langbroek
One package I received labelled "Mineral Specimens" was taxed as vitamins. Another package I received labelled "Meteorites" was taxed as antiques! I have had one small slice of Enstatite chondrite declared "pottery for decoration" (and taxed accordingly) by customs once :-p - Marco - D

Re: [meteorite-list] Huge Daylight Fireball Video?

2009-05-18 Thread Marco Langbroek
I agree with Chris: this to me is a short aircraft contrail lit by the sun. I see no reason at all to think of a meteoric fireball. It keeps surprising me that contrails, in this age of ubiquitous aircraft traffic, are still confused with "fireballs" so often. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroi

Re: [meteorite-list] Daylight Fireball! Meteor Plane or Space, Debris?

2009-05-10 Thread Marco Langbroek
Complete with photo and article of the sighting. http://fremantlebiz.livejournal.com/483475.html To me, that picture shows an high altitude aircraft contrail. See dozens of these here in the sky daily. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail:

[meteorite-list] Fragments of impacting asteroid 2008 TC3 recovered

2009-02-20 Thread Marco Langbroek
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16635-found-pieces-of-space-rock-once-seen-heading-for-earth.html Fragments of the small asteroid impact (NEA 2008 TC3) over Sudan in October have been found. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek http://www.marcolangbroek.nl

Re: [meteorite-list] List Members, what's your job ?

2009-02-19 Thread Marco Langbroek
I am 38, and a professional Palaeolithic (old stone age) archaeologist, currently working at the Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology, Fac. Earth & Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) http://www.dmsweb.org http

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor or supernova tonight?

2008-07-31 Thread Marco Langbroek
Iridium satellite flaring, or geostationary satellite flaring. - Marco Hi all, About 1 hour ago (somewhere between 11:20pm and 11:40pm Mountain timezone) while walking in my Superior, Colorado neighborhood I saw something in the western sky that was really cool. The thing that caught my eye

Re: [meteorite-list] Problem With "Catalog of Meteorites", Software Problem

2008-07-23 Thread Marco Langbroek
Yup, the catalogue uses a DLL which was ditched in Xp. The solution: just download it here and put it in the system folder mentioned in the .txt included in the download: http://www.dll-files.com/index.shtml - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: 5:15 UT slow, bright Mediterranean, bolide

2008-07-09 Thread Marco Langbroek
tal element database. SSC has not issued a final TIPS message yet but does show it as expected to decay. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52

[meteorite-list] The Sommelsdijk "meteorite": is not a meteorite

2008-06-25 Thread Marco Langbroek
- Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DMS website: http://www.dmsweb.org private website: http://www.marcolangbroek.nl - __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritec

Re: [meteorite-list] OT- Satellite Shoot Down News Thread?

2008-02-19 Thread Marco Langbroek
-news.html - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW FALL?! Need help from the list.

2008-02-16 Thread Marco Langbroek
think it is just a time-lapse sequence of the moon descending to the horizon. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DMS website: http://www.dmsweb.org private website: http://www.marcolangbro

Re: [meteorite-list] Watch out for falling metal, guys with, sunglasses and dark suits

2008-01-27 Thread Marco Langbroek
e artifacts" without due caution, so preferably stay clear of eBay offers once it has fallen ;-) - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11

Re: [meteorite-list] Simple mapping software? (A little OT)

2008-01-10 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hi Mark, Browse around a bit on http://www.sourceforge.net which is a well known large repository of open source software for all kinds of things. There is certainly mapping software on there (search with keywords like "map" and/or "gps" I suggest). - Marco - Dr M

Re: [meteorite-list] Holmes17P

2008-01-05 Thread Marco Langbroek
he comet's coma is currently over 5.5 million km wide or 4 times the size of the sun: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2007/12/comet-17pholmes-coma-now-over-55.html - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DMS website: http://www.dmsweb.org p

Re: [meteorite-list] last chance to see comet holmes?

2007-12-01 Thread Marco Langbroek
I think it will still be around for a while. Around Christmas it will be around 1deg 16' wide if the current trend of expansion continues. How bright it will be by that time, I dare not say. - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DMS website:

Re: [meteorite-list] Any problems with Hamburger? (OT)

2007-04-06 Thread Marco Langbroek
did I miss something? What does a hamburger have to do with a meteorite? Moni, What, you never heard of my famous collection of carbonaceous hamburgers - Marco ;-p - Dr Marco Langbroek e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek Panorama photo's:

Re: [meteorite-list] NJ Homeowners Tell of Meteorite Which, Crashed In Their Bathroom

2007-01-11 Thread Marco Langbroek
that shortlived isotopes prove this is a fresh fall and not an eBay fall. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.dmsweb.org priv. website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek - __

Re: [meteorite-list] some Japanese researchers question US Colorado fall

2007-01-04 Thread Marco Langbroek
titude of 130 km but likely already lower when in decay (Chris mentions 60 km). The 8 km/s Chris mentions from his all-sky data is exactly the speed an object decaying from an orbit around the earth should have. Meteors on the other hand have a minimal speed of 11.2 km/s - Marco - Dr Marco Lang

Re: [meteorite-list] (no subject) Darryl Pitt...Colorado and NewJersey events

2007-01-04 Thread Marco Langbroek
> If I wasn't under Mind Control, I'd be telling > everyone the Truth, that Zetans are preparing to bombard the Earth with > missiles prior to stealing all our women to host their alien spawn. Chris, Now you have spilled the beans, we'll have to eliminate you - Col. Langbroek New Worl

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado

2007-01-04 Thread Marco Langbroek
r than the nominal predicted decay time, and at the correct geographic location and direction of movement from the last know orbit for this object. The slow movement on the video (assuming the video was real speed) corroborates it was this decay rather than a meteor. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Du

Re: [meteorite-list] Incredible Meteor over Colorado this AM

2007-01-04 Thread Marco Langbroek
> Message: 13 > Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:04:58 -0700 > From: Matt Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > AWESOME video! > http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/ > Awesome indeed! This most likely was the decay of a Russian Rocket booster, 06-063B, # 29679. - Marco ---

Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?

2006-11-30 Thread Marco Langbroek
have a bit of Asmat art & Asmat artifacts, but wouldn't dare to call it a collection (3 pieces, all inherited from my granddad). In a figurative sense, I collect asteroids (discovered a number of them). - Marco :-) - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-17 Thread Marco Langbroek
t he says. In fact, as a side note, in this very current polemic between me (a non-native speaker of English) and you (a native speaker of English) you have started to play this linguistic card too when you subtly correct my English when you quote me, as I noted in one of your previous posts.

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-16 Thread Marco Langbroek
ffraid it has a dark political undercurrent, reason why I am very cautious with judging someone "guilty". There is a lot more I would like to say on this, but I am tired of the discussion and fear if I do so it would raise sentiments that would further blur the discussion. -

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-15 Thread Marco Langbroek
o married a goddess named Sigyn who bore him two sons: Narfi and Vali, which makes naming the two moons easy. Oh, yeah, one other thing: Loki is the God of Thieves! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: "M

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
e accessed the internet telescope logs, downloading the relevant information a day before making his announcement, but denied any wrongdoing. He concedes that it was Brown's team that had discovered the object." Sterling K. Webb ---

[meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-14 Thread Marco Langbroek
Suggested names have yet to be submitted for two of Brown's group's other famous KBOs: 2005 FY9 and 2003 EL61. ?? Naming rights and formal discovery credit for 2003 EL61 are not Brown's: but Ortiz et al.'s - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (

[meteorite-list] re: Smoke Trail

2006-09-13 Thread Marco Langbroek
don't recognize airliner contrails for what they are. Every few months a video of a "fireball" keeps popping up in news outlets that is just a sunlit aircraft contrail. Weird. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] priva

[meteorite-list] Re: Entry Burn [was Lunar Burn]

2006-08-23 Thread Marco Langbroek
it looked to me. I suppose for the time being maybe its best to leave it at that. good hunting, Ed - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website ht

[meteorite-list] Re: Entry Burn [was Lunar Burn]

2006-08-23 Thread Marco Langbroek
27;t real well understood, but I'd be surprised if you saw the nickel emission over the atmospheric oxygen. The majority of slow, bright meteors are reported as green by many witnesses, but only a small fraction of those contain significant nickel. Chris - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch

[meteorite-list] re: Lunar Burn

2006-08-22 Thread Marco Langbroek
he emmision of > > green spectra in a burning object mean that there is > > some form of copper > > in it? - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.l

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Comet: Talking Points, #1

2006-07-31 Thread Marco Langbroek
denly drag supernovae into it. Which I ignore because that was not the point under discussion. It is an old, cheap trick to change subject during a discussion. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.lan

[meteorite-list] re: Upcoming "meteorite hunt" based movie

2006-07-30 Thread Marco Langbroek
not mistaken with the URL); I'd actually GLADLY ad this "meteorite" to my collection for that matter... ;-p - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website http:/

Re: [meteorite-list] Chladni's Heirs NORWAY field report

2006-07-25 Thread Marco Langbroek
Enjoyed reading the field report, and hals und beinbruch to the Chladni Heirs... - Marco :-) - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org

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