Re: [meteorite-list] Two New Images from MESSENGER's First Flybyof Mercury

2008-01-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Videcon TV pictures of Mariner 10, it looked strange. In these closer, much more detailed images, it looks even stranger. Lots of collapse features. There may be more vulcanism than we think likely. Ah! There's a good argument! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Space leaders work to replace lunar base withmanned asteroid missions

2008-01-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, The U.S. is already spending an estimated 2.7 to 3.5 Trillion Dollars on a Lunar Base, an extensive outpost in a very hostile environment. The only problem is: it's located in Iraq. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] Life on Mars!

2008-01-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, which purports to be the only film footage of the elusive humanoid. It does not resemble a small rock (a rock with an extended arm?) at all. I suspect a prank of some kind. This is not Mars; this is Spoof Country. How such a prank is carried out is left as an exercise for the student. Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Return of Red Rain

2008-01-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
collection. Put it all together and you have... not much. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Mr EMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: metlist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:49 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Return of Red Rain

2008-01-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Return of Red Rain

2008-01-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
differing points of view. I've been paging through recent postings to the List, and you know what? I can't find an advertisement for New List Cop Wanted anywhere. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Don

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

2008-01-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
for everything else! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:37 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Watch out for falling

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

2008-01-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(and probably others I didn't think of), and it turns out that it's likely not an old photo reconnaisance satellite. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

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

2008-01-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to be removed from a spare RTG the Department of Energy built for NASA as part of the Cassini and Galileo programs. ...stay clear of eBay offers once it has fallen ;-) I get ALL my plutonium on eBay. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury's crack habit

2008-01-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to Spock-like or hard-rubber beings in any form. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:16 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim: What is the TRUE FALL DATE??

2008-02-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
want, I can forward you a copy of the post. Let me know. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Don Merchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:33 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim: What is the TRUE FALL DATE??

2008-02-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel. My impulse for this suicidal post is finished. I wish I was in Tucson. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From

[meteorite-list] U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite

2008-02-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in orbit, the AP announced about 20 minutes ago. A press conference at the Pentagon to confirm this is expected sometime this afternoon, they say. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7aoM2ii3QVBCAV8m2HtJSuPxPNwD8UQ7CEO0 Sterling K. Webb __ http

Re: [meteorite-list] U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite

2008-02-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in a few weeks. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday

Re: [meteorite-list] Sat reentry Question

2008-02-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
it's a big heavy fist. When it acquires a target, its own rocket thrusters accelerate it to a very high speed relative to the target and Wham! No more target. Pretty simple: get rock, throw rock... hard. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite

2008-02-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
think, to determine the progress of the breakup and to check for big chunks. Since the Times article implies that there will be only the one cruiser, it is unlikely that there will be more than the one attempt. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] Fw: U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite

2008-02-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Forwarding this to The List for: - Original Message - From: Kelly Beatty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:57 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite Sterling... I'm sending you this directly

[meteorite-list] Fw: U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite

2008-02-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Forwarding this to The List for: - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:54 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite Hi

Re: [meteorite-list] Why doesn't Mars look like Mars?

2008-02-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of the 67th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, August 2-6, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5173 (abstract). Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

[meteorite-list] NAVY MAY ATTEMPT SHOOTDOWN OF SATELLITE WEDNESDAY NIGHT

2008-02-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
for later this week. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1930844420080219?feedType=RSSfeedName=topNews Sterling K. Webb --- __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite

2008-02-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the role of hot plasma, either. But at these speeds, the impact does not require the use of hard or dense materials. Remember that the Columbia was taken out by a piece of FOAM. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] What doesn't this list use an online

2008-02-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
should ask Art if it feels like a century since he opened the doors to the madhouse? Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, February 23

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas in the news

2008-02-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
for the List. There's nothing else like it. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:24 AM Subject

Re: [meteorite-list] Cyclic meteorite streams?

2008-02-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
: asteroidal streams, particularly associated with near-Earth asteroids. For a history of the evidence, scroll down to page four of this paper: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/books/AsteroidsIII/pdf/3017.pdf Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas in the news PLUS GRA 06128/9

2008-02-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
a little... If it were from Venus (for example), the Ar isotopes ratios would pretty much scream it out... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas in the news PLUS GRA 06128/9

2008-02-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Adam, They say: ‘New’ Parent Body. The GRA meteorites’ combination of isotopic and mineral compositions is unlike those of any other meteorite. sigma-18O  +6‰ and delta-17O  - 0.05‰ are distinct from other meteorites except the primitive achondrite NWA 2788 [7]. Mineral compositions in

Re: [meteorite-list] New Fall!

2008-03-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Since the entire state of Oregon has only 15,000 acres of vineyards, I can't see how two wineries north of Pendleton can dominate the region. (And the weather maps show snow depths of 24 inches or more in the area.) Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Another clue to the Mystery Fall Game

2008-03-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Madagascar, South Africa, and Argentina do not have regions dominated by vineyards. That leaves Chile, which does have such regions. McCartney, did you bring back any of the wine that came from those vineyards? Meteorite Vineyard Wine! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Another clue to the Mystery Fall Game

2008-03-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
after the 1848 unpleasantness, now producing world-class wines with the help of California money: http://www.illinoiscellars.com/ They produce a fine Bavarian Apple Wine, my personal favorite, but no meteorites as yet. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] What's the chances of a meteorite hitting youcar hood?

2008-03-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
a little fanny-warming as well? Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 10:41 PM Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas-- still weird

2008-03-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:46 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Carancas-- still weird

Re: [meteorite-list] New Crater Found?

2008-03-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of a rim on the western end on the other side of the gully. It IS circular, but is that enough? Maybe it is; maybe it isn't is my first impression. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Greg Redfern [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] New Crater Found?

2008-03-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
crater. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Greg Redfern [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] First Detection of Organic Molecules in Extrasolar Planetary Atmosphere

2008-03-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/19/scialien119.xml Milestone in hunt for extraterrestrial life By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Astronomers have found organic chemicals on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, a milestone in the hunt for

Re: [meteorite-list] UM-Led Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids

2008-03-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, A very coy press release. What are the three asteroids? Where are they in the solar system? and a host of other questions go unanswered. They're large, 50km to 100km in diameter says the abstract: Calcium-, aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) occur in all classes of chondritic

Re: [meteorite-list] Oldest Known Asteroids

2008-03-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
/980_Anacostia Discovered by G. H. Peters Nov. 21, 1921. It ranges from 2.74 AU to 3.294 AU in a period of 4.539 years. No diameter is given. Sterling K. Webb __ http

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

2008-03-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
just to move the asteroid to Earth-Moon space, in orbit around one or the other. I suspect lunar orbit would be the preferred option as folks get nervous about asteroids headed toward Earth. Of course, it'll be a mining claim, but souvenirs are always good publicity. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Park Forest timing

2008-03-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Chauncey Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:10 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Park Forest timing Bernd

Re: [meteorite-list] BREAK! For the love of meteorites, STOP -- COMET 73/P

2006-05-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
4.6 C/1862 N1 (Schmidt) 0.1018 1996 Mar. 25.3 C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) 0.1019 1961 Nov. 15.2 C/1961 T1 (Seki) Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Pete Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] BREAK! For the love of meteorites, STOP -- COMET 73/P

2006-05-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Doug, List, I abase my unworthy self, to be Japanese about it. I Googled for orbit data, and didn't Google deep enough. It's a virtual Jupiter-Earth Shuttle, it seems. I re-traced my steps from my browser history and discovered a wrong click pulled the data from a different object, a perfect

[meteorite-list] OT: 3 NEW EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS: NEPTUNES OR SUPER-EARTHS?

2006-05-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
between 2-1/2 and 3 Earth masses is the point where the median ocean depths equal the height of the highest possible mountain. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain Was From A Comet, Study Suggests

2006-06-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
bat blood. His own microphotos demonstrate it; his own analysis demonstrates it. There is no mystery except why he has kept flogging this silly notion to the science press for years. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Pete

[meteorite-list] Iimpact Crater -- Nicaragua, Stefan Brandes

2006-06-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
an unnecessary quarrel. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Kowald, Leo (SBI Ruhr) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:20 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: possible impact crater -- Nicaragua, Chad, Hello Mr. Webb, I

Re: [meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain Was From A Comet, Study Suggests

2006-06-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
have to realize that I am not biased against the notion dogmatically. I'm a panspermatic agnostic. Gimme enough proof and I'll be convinced. This story is not proof of anything but human folly. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Big Bang in Antarctica - Killer Crater Found UnderIce

2006-06-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in the basement. A bag of cookies wouldn't hurt. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:37 AM Subject

[meteorite-list] Another Killer Crater Found -- Last Month

2006-06-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
ever seen. In some cases, there's no suspect at all. In others, there's just way too many suspects. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Big Bang in Antarctica - Killer CraterFoundUnderIce

2006-06-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of chaotic terrain directly opposite the biggest impact, the Caloris Basin. These really big impacts are so far out of our experience that it's really difficult to imagine, even using mathematical models, what could result from them. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain... BAT RIDDLE SOLVED, I THINK

2006-06-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
smack the forehead, like Hercule Poirot, why I don't think of it before? They mus' be starved, ze leetle gray cells... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Kevin Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] It's a star, it's a planet, it's a 'planemo'

2006-06-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, It's a star, it's a planet, it's a 'planemo' http://news.com.com/Its+a+star,+its+a+planet,+its+a+planemo/2100-11397_3-6080197.html Too lightweight to be stars but bigger than most planets, a handful of hot, young, free-floating objects have the raw materials to make their own

Re: [meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain Was From A Comet, Study Suggests

2006-06-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
bad science, only bad thing in this story was, that there was this publications spread, before the case was sufficient investigated. Publishing before you investigate is not bad science. It's no science. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] DNA Discovered, Algae Cultured From 'Red Rain'

2006-06-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
thermophiles? (Louis claimed they were unaffected when heated to 300 C.) More questions, fewer answers. Back to Square One. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List

Re: [meteorite-list] It's a star, it's a planet, it's a 'planemo'

2006-06-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
terminology! This definition game is tiring, like playing handball. My wrists hurt. The IAU can have it. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Larry Lebofsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Holy crap-- can anyone confirm this? Any vikingson the list?

2006-06-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
like a great place to scratch for meteorites... I hope somebody can come up with a track recontruction for this thing and the seisomologists with an accurate impact energy. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Darren

Re: [meteorite-list] Holy crap-- can anyone confirm this? Any, vikingson the list?

2006-06-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
asteroids in the Taurid complex appear to have associated meteor showers and therefore are likely to be extinct comets masquerading as asteroids. In other words, always a great candidate for the source of any big impact at this time of year... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Norway Meteorite Impact Site Believed to be Found

2006-06-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in the Arctic, with sunshine 20-22 hours a day. It's in the 50's F. (Take mosquito netting.) Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Norway Meteorite Impact Site Believed to be Found

2006-06-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
long in that environment, which is probably pretty unforgiving of idiots. My second guess is, time will tell. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Meteorite Mailing List' meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Norway Meteorite Impact Site Believed to be Found

2006-06-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Norway Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Norway Meteorite Impact Site Believed to be Found

2006-06-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Doug, You're right, Doug, I did it again. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. How many times you have to straighten me out? Post that link again to where you work out the temperature of bodies in space so I can go and read it again in the hope it will stick this time. It was laziness, Doug.

Re: [meteorite-list] Norway Meteorite Impact Site Believed to be Found

2006-06-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
magnitude fireball: BIG. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Meteorite Mailing List' meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Norway Meteorite Impact Site Believed to be Found

2006-06-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to man, which you never see, but which that big stone plaza around the Washington Monument is the top of! I love good engineering... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] norwegian fall

2006-06-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
up on impact, going for the airburst... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Bjorn Sorheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] norwegian fall

Re: [meteorite-list] More exact information about the norwegian fall

2006-06-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
- Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More exact information about the norwegian fall Hi Bjørn- The important wind data is for higher altitudes. I

Re: [meteorite-list] More exact information about the norwegian fall

2006-06-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
fairness, I should mention that this on-line calculator gives users one disclaimer about its performance, These results come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, so it's not like we weren't warned... a little. I can second that. Use with Caution. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Three New 'Trojan' Asteroids Found Sharing Neptune's Orbit

2006-06-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
://sww.ooscc.pl.charon.com/ or visit one of our many entertaining Expo's on a World or Satellite near you. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Three New 'Trojan' Asteroids Found Sharing Neptune's Orbit

2006-06-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
...) ALL the theories require a big bag of asteroids for the Outer Outer System. And you know that whatever the mechanism that starts with big numbers and then wastes them, many if not most of them would have been scattered outward. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Sale: LUNARMETEORITE.COM Domain name for saleonEbay

2006-06-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
it just isn't on-topic. Unless the insurance company refused to pay for burglarized meteorites... Not everything has to be totally on-topic, does it? Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Walter Branch To: Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Tunguska wood

2006-06-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
mTons, 60% of the population of Belgium. It lines up a little off-center for the next densely populated target: London, but I think you could have counted on 4-5 million deaths there, well exceeding the nastier imaginings of Mr. Wells and his Martians... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Some meteorite related (mostly) articles

2006-06-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, I want to thank Darren for helping to fill my hard drive... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:45 PM Subject: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite from Jupiter-- uh, I mean TO Jupiter

2006-06-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite from Jupiter-- uh, I mean TO Jupiter

2006-06-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
little to do with reality. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite from

Re: [meteorite-list] The Ethics of eBay Sniping

2006-06-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
? Possibly, but not certainly. It is hard to sell a really rare item with only a tiny collector market at full market value. Just ask folks in the (larger) meteorite market. Or listen to their arguments about what market value REALLY is that sometimes enliven and sometimes deaden this List! Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Find spot-Fall spot-Google Earth-Mystery-Questions

2006-06-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, or just discovered in the course of the dig. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Walter L. Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:41 PM Subject: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Fraudulent Trade? latin translated

2006-06-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, but if you'd ever been free for even one day, you would fight to the death to stay that way, just like we do. Over 2500+ years, and not dated in the least... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] asteroid flyby

2006-07-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
height). A good general news story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5133900.stm or, for more detail: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060626_asteroid_close.html or: http://space.com/spacewatch/060629_night_sky.html Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Japanese immpact animation video

2006-07-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
it. Thanks, Svend. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:22 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Japanese immpact animation video in case

Re: [meteorite-list] Japanese impact animation video

2006-07-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
other things? Talk about improbable!! [cackles hysterically and signs off.] Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Francis Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 3:07 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Japanese impact animation video

2006-07-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
with that eccentricity of orbit. They all smacked the Earth at 45 to 50 km/sec. An impact at 20 to 25 km/sec would only be 1/4th as energetic (still bad, tho). It's the eccentricity of a deflected Centaur that is their very worst feature. That, and the absence of Raquel. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Another Amusing Piece of Journalism

2006-07-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
is somewhat? Probably best to qualify the statement. The List is such a contentious place... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Notkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite List meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] eBay: Bad luck meteorite

2006-07-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
land. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divernon,_Illinois You read the rn (RN) as m (M). Is it time for a visit to the friendly neightborhood optometrist? No offense, I hope. I'm sitting here typing while wearing my magnifying goggles! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite doubts emerge (the Norway meteorite)

2006-07-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
kiloTons of TNT, but beyond that, nothing, which is the usual outcome of a big fireball. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:39 AM

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite doubts emerge (the Norway meteorite)

2006-07-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
are that government's own population So, a 300 Ton TNT detonation is trivial ONLY if you're nowhere near it! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Bjorn Sorheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, July 12

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Sedimentary Meteorites

2006-07-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and Delaney. Why don't they, or somebody, try to find out what happened to Bleckenstad and other sedimentary pseudometeorites, or is that trash can too deep? Or are they still in some dusty storage drawer of museums that found them long ago an embarassment? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] New Meteorites Discovered in Australia

2006-07-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Darren, Mock not. What I want to know is what the old cobber was drinking, or smoking, or otherwise ingesting the night he had the dream, and where I can get some, a small prescription for Old Reliable Meteorite Hunters Dream Elixir, just what I need. Sterling

Re: [meteorite-list] New Meteorites Discovered in Australia

2006-07-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Martin Altmann' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Re: [meteorite-list] New Meteorites Discovered in Australia

Re: [meteorite-list] Man in Norway 2 m from meteorite falling on Friday!

2006-07-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
personally, by which I mean, by striking your person! Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Bjorn Sorheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:21 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Man

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian Meteorite Weight Guess

2006-07-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
will be a lot less or a lot more than my average value of about 3 kilos. But don't worry. If things are on schedule, Norway should have another big daylight detonator in about five weeks, just like the last pair... Don't they always come in three's? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update - July 21, 2006

2006-07-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
miles, I would drive mine for 1,000,000 miles (I should live so long) through frozen deserts without gas stations or air... Somebody present a plaque (or something better) to the guys who designed and built these things! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] iron meteorites and earth origins

2006-07-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
zones. The opposite notion, of narrow and uniform zones of formation, has been an axiom of many differing schools of thought on solar system formation for 30-40 years (and implied for much longer), and it now increasingly appears to be untrue. Is the fall of a paradigm in the wind? Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Re:Comet hit Britain in mid sixth, century, AD?

2006-07-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in advance for annoying you again, Marco. Isn't strange how everybody doesn't agree on everything? Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Marco Langbroek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Fw: [meteorite-list] Re:Comet hit Britain in mid sixth, RE-POSTED

2006-07-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
? Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Marco Langbroek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:54 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Re:Comet hit Britain in mid sixth

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

2006-07-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, not even an astro-, that Marco objects to; I like experiments.) See much?! you exclaim; it's about like night in here! Well, that's ten grams of dust per square meter at the top of your atmosphere. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list

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

2006-07-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, by the way... Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; 'moni Waiblinger-Seabridge' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 5:44 PM Subject: AW: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] meat-eorite

2006-07-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, What's the classification? I suppose it would have to be carbonacious... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, July 26

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

2006-07-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
DON'T LOOK FOR... That's the most basic selection effect of all. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 11

Re: [meteorite-list] British Study Attempts to Calculate Odds ofBeing Hit By a Meteorite

2006-07-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to about 1-2 likely car impacts per decade now. People are a much smaller target but somewhat more numerous than cars. I make it even odds that someone, somewhere will get hit with a meteorite in this century. Maybe two. Some people will do anything for their 15 minutes of fame... Sterling K

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

2006-07-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
anyone would pay any attention. Frankly, I cannot see why they should. What advantage would there would be in that approach? It is The Problem itself, in its entirety, that we are interested in, is it not? Sterling K. Webb -- - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] British Study Attempts to Calculate Odds ofBeingHit By a Meteorite

2006-07-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
mph, I'll be running around the strewn field with little red tag-flags, GPS, camera, baggies... and a big hard hat. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

Re: [meteorite-list] Metallic Rock Baffles Experts

2006-07-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
) on The List? Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:20 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Metallic Rock

Re: [meteorite-list] CNN India/IBN reports 5 fragments recovered fromINDIAN FALL

2006-08-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
this time. I offer up my own house for a Garza Stone. (I've got insurance and I need a new computer.) Bring it on. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: drtanuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Hunting in Muonionalusta

2006-08-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
decide that you're the drawback... Not to sound like some on this list, but I would gladly trade a big mess of blueberries for a 47 kilo meteorite. Any offers? Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Jim Strope [EMAIL PROTECTED

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