[meteorite-list] Alert on iranian meteorites - dishonnest sellers there (Afshin Km and Hot Desert Meteorites)

repeatedly receive meteorites from Iran through postal service or DHL without problems. Pierre Rochette __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] WHO IS THE BEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL METEORITE HUNTER OUT THERE?

Dear list I saw Jeff Grossman rightfully mentioned Antarctic search leaders on top of that contest, but the point was dismissed, someone even suggesting that collecting meteorite in Antarctica is not hunting but fishing; myself I hunt and fish animals and I have collected meteorites both in

[meteorite-list] WHO IS THE BEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL METEORITE HUNTER OUT THERE?

as a response to Martin, yes one could consider that those who recover meteorite for a living are hunters and those who do it for Science and academic carrier are searchers, but this leaves apart those that are not academics but do this as a passion and live on another job. Moreover the

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dear list members for a research project I am looking for meteorites from the Sahara or Dhofar that may have been used by prehistoric man. If you think you have such man shaped artefact in your NWAs (or other collection area) please contact me off-list; we can expertise it. regards -- Pierre

[meteorite-list] prehistoric artefact made of meteorites

(sorry for not including a subject in my previous post) dear list members for a research project I am looking for meteorites from the Sahara or Dhofar* that may have been used by prehistoric man. If you think you have such man shaped artefact in your NWAs (or other collection area) please

[meteorite-list] Researchers find ancient meteorite dust

Dear Jason thanks for the news. The PNAS paper can be downloaded here: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/11/14/0806049105.abstract note that L. Folco is not from Pisa but Siena -- Pierre __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing

[meteorite-list] WOW magnetic south?

Dear list following Rob message, I would say some knowledge exists on the core behavior and the reversal processes. You can see more at the adress below, including a movie of a simulated reversal. http://www.psc.edu/science/Glatzmaier/glatzmaier.html The uneasy thing to understand in the

[meteorite-list] Franco L3.8

Dear list this is to confirm that the L3.8 M. Franco is selling under the unofficial name SWA01003 (or no name at all) has been examined by various experts and classified in agreement with the Nom Com rules (by A. Jambon in Paris). What delayed the publication in MetBull seems to be that M.

Re: [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ?

Sterling wrote: Hi, Tom aka James, Avoirdupois is the fancy French term for common British measures .. Well list I object! this is not genuine french, just a british expression forged to look like french. In the Web page:

Re: [meteorite-list] Galim (a) and Galim(b) question??????

Dear dave here is the answer: Title: The Galim LL/EH polymict breccia: Evidence for impact-induced exchange between reduced and oxidized meteoritic material Authors: Rubin, Alan E. Journal: Meteoritics, vol. 32, pages 489-492 Publication Date: 07/1997 Origin: METIC Bibliographic Code:

Re: [meteorite-list] Use of magnets for meteorite hunting

rob says: P.S. Perhaps a compass can be used as a weaning device? It generates a minimal magnetic field, and yet is sensitive enough to detect most H- and L-chondrites. yes compass is able to detect (by a small deviation from N when you approach the stone) the magnetization of a say L or H. But

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Expeditions n Magnetic Destruction

Rafael wrote: Thats kinda a hard view point, cuz it test us between 2 things. Destroying a meteorite for science or obtaining more items to our collections. Of course I dont want to harm any meteorites for science, even though they are only for collection. But one collector never knows when will

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Expeditions

Hi Pierre, Like most tools, one uses it with some degree of discretion. I learned about it from Steve Schoner, one of the greatest hunters ever. I first used one with him in an L/LL strewn field and he, at least, did so with excellent results. So, at least some people consider it to be of

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Expeditions

.. But I have just one question: How do u use the meteorite cane?... I have a big magnet from a floppy disk, small in size, but man its powerful. Do I use it to sweep the area with it? or just when a rock looks different?...I have that big magnet attached to a cane, plus smaller magnets for

Re: [meteorite-list] Question About Iturralde Structure, Bolivia

Abstract to be presented by Wasilewski et al. at the IUGG Meeting Sapporo Japan (July 2003): ITURRALDE: A POSSIBLE IMPACT STRUCTURE AT THE EDGE OF THE AMAZON IN NORTHERN BOLIVIA The Iturralde structure is possibly the Earth's most recent big impact event recording a collision with a meteor or

Re: [meteorite-list] A Metallic Asteroid May Have Coincided WithThe Fall Of Rome

Dear Sterling thanks for your in depth historical discussion. I agree that the historical record is not so plain, and that the epoch was not the one of Plinius or Ciceron. However as we talk about St Augustine, if he was writing after the impact(I did not check the dates, anyhow the dating of the

Re: [meteorite-list] A Metallic Asteroid May Have Coincided WithThe Fall Of Rome

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,889308,00.html A metallic asteroid may have coincided with the fall of Rome, says Duncan Steel The Guardian (United Kingdom) February 6, 2003 .. No matter what the trajectory of the asteroid entry, it would have been a phenomenal

Re: [meteorite-list] triolite inclusions

Steve / Steve: Isn't Pyrrhotite Fe(1-x)S? True. Troilite is distinct from Pyrrhotite. It was simply the best terrestrial analog, found in abundance on Earth and easily referenced, that I could come up with at the time for S. Arnold's post. to be more precise there are different sorts of

Re: [meteorite-list] triolite inclusions

>Hello Pierre and list, > >Now I am really confused. "Rocks From Space" both first and second edition >list troilite as a magnetic iron sulfide. Wrong! But it was common in the old days to misinterprete monoclinic pyrrhotite as troilite. Real pure troilite is less magnetic than olivine.

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John inquired: > Can anyone tell me if any of the different numbered NWA > R-chondrites are paired? Like NWA 753 and 978, both R3.8's Hello John and List, According to the Meteoritical Bulletin #85, NWA 753 is a R3.9 rumurutiite chondrite, and its fayalite is Fa38.6±3.2 (range Fa20-41) and:

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA R-chondrite pairings

Dear John I posted a very similar message about 6 months ago, without great success... So here is my personal feeling: it looks unlikely statistically that two different R3.8 or R4 come out of NWA, but not impossible : there are 2 nakhlites and 4 shergottites in NWA. It is true that 753 and 978

Re: [meteorite-list] Juvinas?

Hello List, Juvinas seems to be a meteorite that is hard to find info on. ?? Strange! There are several tens of scientific publications on this typical eucrite since 1821 (see Catalogue of Meteorites). Ask Bernt for a listing... Over the 91 kg collected, there is still an impressive pumpkin sized

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara Sand and Michigan Dirt

repost from Saturday. It seemed lost. Sorry if you got it already Hello black magnetic spherules in Michigan soils: for sure it is industrial ashes (from steel work, coal burning, cementery, engine mufflers etc.) for which the fallout is numerous orders of magnitude above micrometeorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Question

Dear Rhett,Bernd and list In general when obtaining a measurement outside the norm (here Fa% for H within 17-20), the inference this is an anomalous meteorite should not be put forward before answering the questions: -does the norm apply to this case? (obviously not for type 3 which by

[meteorite-list] NWA889

Dear list several pieces from Matteo that were analysed carefully (microprobe, and so on) revealed that the clasts are not exotic (i.e. carbonaceous or achondritic) but just L6: black is impact melt and gray is moderately shocked, the matrix being L3.8. It remains to be demonstrated that

[meteorite-list] Saharan R4s

Dear list does someone have a clear idea of the status of the R4s bought in Morroco? Ouzina is the oldest (metbull 2000), NWA800 is not yet declared, NWA845 and 851 are in the provisional MetBull2002, Bessey dumped recently unnamed material, the Labennes also have R4... Are these possibly all

[meteorite-list] Earth nearly hit by large asteroid??

Dear list I am a bit surprised by all this fuss in the media every few months about how lucky we are escaping once again the big hit. As a scientist I can say that the probability that an asteroid cruising nearer to earth than the Moon actually hit the earth is 1/1*; the public will laugh

[meteorite-list] weird spanish meteorite/slag

Dear list there is a PhD thesis just finishing on this stone (Getafe) in Madrid museum. So we should have more news in the near future. If it is a meteorite it is an extremely weird one, the closest could be d'Orbigny (no chondrules, not magnetic, lot of large bubbles). The C14 data seems to

Re: [meteorite-list] Help with a Strange Rock

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it also exhibits a very weak magnetic field. I have never heard of this associated with a meteorite. Any ideas of what it might be? Thanks, Ron What do you mean? That the rock deviates a compass? Once you have "treated" it with a magnet most meteorites as well as

Re: Vs: [meteorite-list] Re:Kaali meteorite - Estonia, 400BC?

Hello list a short comment on Pytheas, who was a greek citizen of Phocea, now Marseille in SE France. He may have been the first geophysicist as he is renown for his proposal that tide is linked to the movement of Moon and Sun relative to Earth. He formed this idea probably by being the first

Re: [meteorite-list] TRINITITE

Hi list I am ready to accept that this material is safe, it is just the idea that some kind of nuclear waste be object of collection that puzzle me! besides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I am tired of the conspiracy theorist-- there are boards for that elsewhere and I am tired of non

Re: [meteorite-list] TRINITITE

I am amazed that some people dare collecting this material! Army people say its radioactivity should have come now to acceptable level, but first who is able to trust 100% such quote (from people who experimented injection of plutonium into humans without telling them) and second even if on

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites that fell into the water

In Grady catalog there are several meteorites from Pacific Ocean. They have been dredged on the sea floor at several km depth by a Russian oceanographic vessel. Pierre __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[meteorite-list] FREE METEORITE CONTEST TWO! NWA's!

African meteorites are cool because they don't pretend, no pedigree, no academic record, no Saint Machin no Something County, no sophisticated outfit, they just offer you what they are, an unnamed flower of the universe, just for the thrill of the last explorers, the crude nakedness of outer

[meteorite-list] lunar/martian magnetism

Hello list as argued in preceeding post the answer is it magnetic cannot be answered by yes or no. With a strong magnet the most magnetic Martian, Los Angeles, can be weakly attracted, due to its content of magnetite (1-2%), may be NWA817 also. Al the others are too weak (half a percent of

Re: [meteorite-list] Nutcase Relativity

Dear Pierre, My apologies if I seemed to be blaming French scientists for ignorance re the true nature of meteorites. no offense! IYou just gave me a good opportunity to highlight the contribution of Biot (who happens to be more famous for his work on magnetism) on l'Aigle... Prof. P. Rochette

Re: [meteorite-list] Nutcase Relativity

In earlier ages, people who claimed to have seen stones fall from the sky, were they too considered to be a little touched? French peasent: I have seen stones falling from the heavens!! French professor: Uneducated dolt. Nutcase!! Charlie about arrogant French professors: in 1803 the

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange Martian Surface Feature

Hi, List, Ok, it's a little off topic, but... A friend of mine belongs to a group one of whom found the following site displaying an image of a Martian surface feature: http://www.enterprisemission.com/samp5.htm This site is one maintained by a notorious whacko and fringe-theorist,

Re: [meteorite-list] Article wanted

Hello all- I am in search of a copy of the article: The Mbale meteorite shower. Meteoritics. vol. 29 no. 2. March 1994. pp. 246-254 Can anyone out there provide me with a photocopy, back issue, or on-line archive? Thanks in advance, Bonjour go to this page:

[meteorite-list] NWA978 and El Tigre

Dear list I have two enquiries 1. I just got on E-bay a slice of NWA978. A beautiful R3, no doubt! However the seller just mention "classified by UCLA". Is someone aware of a published account on this rare NWA? I am wondering about pairing with NWA573... 2. a fellow collector has got a while

Re: [meteorite-list] have mercy for meteorite memory!

Allende: it is not magnetic (in the sense of the magnet; with the right probe, it has a strong magnetic signal!) Prof. P. Rochette CEREGE University of Aix-Marseille 3 BP 80, Europôle de l'Arbois 13545 Aix en Provence Cedex 4 FRANCE Tel : 04 42 97 15 62 Fax : 04 42 97 15 95

[meteorite-list] metric system

than two centuries ago by some bright people (mostly french!); it has saved innumerable time and mental energy since for billions of people. May be you should try it! Prof. P. Rochette CEREGE University of Aix-Marseille 3 BP 80, Europôle de l'Arbois 13545 Aix en Provence Cedex 4 FRANCE Tel : 04