Re: [meteorite-list] Mesosiderites= Vestan?

2006-09-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, you sort it out! Could we deduce the geological history of Venus from that? We would be long on generalizations and short on specifics, a situation similar to trying to identify meteorites' parent bodies. There's no substitute for going there. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] New photos of the face on Mars

2006-09-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, The Face needs a facelift... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:21 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] New

Re: [meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New features

2006-09-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MeteoriteList meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: disabled cut paste

2006-09-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Internet Explorer interprets the disablement as a universal one. However, you can display the page source, then close the window. The page source remains and the clipboard is re-enabled. Snip, snip. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New features

2006-09-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Likewise: IE 6, XP HomeEd SP2. I also have Norton 2006 Firewall and Norton 2006 Internet Security... I'll bet David Weir has never gotten a complaint to date... I hadn't figured it out until your post, and he probably doesn't know it's happening. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] INNER SOLAR SYSTEM

2006-09-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
it was shifting the Sun from one elliptical focus point to the other; Mars' orbit expands and contracts; Venus and the Earth pull up close and flirt with resonance lock; they all rock back and forth. As with any good movie, I was disappointed that it was only three million years long. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] INNER SOLAR SYSTEM

2006-09-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
ago. Anybody lost any planets lately? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pete Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 2:52 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

2006-09-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. You gotta be quick on this List! It could be older than the Joliet Plant. Wars always seem to increase the demand for lead... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G. Nicula [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Opportunity: 'Victoria Crater' After Sol 950 Drive

2006-09-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(21 Mbytes) in either AVI or MOV format at this site: http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22106 Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

2006-09-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in what is now Galena, Illinois, was built. In the peak year of 1845, the mining district, with Galena as its hub, produced about 85% of the nation's lead. It was the fourth busiest port on the Mississippi River. Ball mills were plentiful. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Used To Study Solar Activity

2006-09-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Perhaps a small amount of real research will continue until we understand things better. On the other hand, perhaps we will have completely implemented our adjustment to the Greenhouse Future just in time to greet the next Great Solar Minimum? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Used To Study Solar Activity

2006-09-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
previous, so he's saying the data on 44Ti activity in meteorites matches the solar astronomy records; that's all. Questions on climate he refers to colleagues from Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory who have researched this area. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

2006-09-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
ball along the way... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Used To Study Solar Activity ATLAST!!!

2006-09-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of years (except for one short nasty hot spell at the end of the Permian). For at least the last half billion years, that's the way it's been: no runaway greenhouses. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: K. Ohtsuka [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Used To Study Solar Activity ATLAST!!!

2006-09-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
systemic error would vanish in the scaling. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:44 PM Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars software, clock maths HELP.

2006-09-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
: http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/Atlas/MER/documents/ops_edr_rdr_sis.pdf#search=%22mer%20local_true_solar_time%22 Is it the local Mars time for the pictures you want, or the current local Mars time, like the MER Clock running in your software? Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] The Missing Word

2006-09-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... even though it's not audible to most listeners... http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2512058 Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] The Missing Word

2006-10-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
-rehearsed and pre-recorded foot-down sentence, so that all he has to do is touch the button that feeds the quote directly into his spacesuit's radio input: That's one small step for a man, another giant leap for mankind. Too late to get Charlton Heston to do it... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian scenario

2006-10-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, Brett Gladman, for others on transfer of meteorites between planets... Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Matthias Bärmann To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:08 PM Subject: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] How I Found My New Comet (C/2006 T1 Levy)

2006-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
you can! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:41 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] How I Found My New

Re: [meteorite-list] C/2006 M4 visible this evening

2006-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in the car and head for the hills. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 2

Re: [meteorite-list] Paypal Hackers WARNING!!!

2006-10-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that they do anything beyond a bland statement that they make all possible effort. The often-expressed sentiment that they don't care and don't do anything is just not correct. They just don't brag about it. Sorry for the long stories, but it doesn't mean much without all those details! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto for sale?????????

2006-10-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
be glad to be evicted. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pete Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Paypal Hackers WARNING!!!

2006-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Charles Viau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Mark' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Sterling K. Webb' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'meteoritelist' Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:30 PM Subject

Re: [meteorite-list] Paypal Hackers WARNING!!!

2006-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, While we with names further down the alphabet have to wait and wait for OUR spoofs to arrive! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Venus May Have Once Had A Moon

2006-10-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and Stevenson never heard of Malcuit and Winters. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:06 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Meteorites and Books at Ebay

2006-10-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
.jpg And it's almost a Dob... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Walter Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:23 AM

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Meteorites and Books at Ebay

2006-10-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
on Mt. Wilson (from 1844 until 1917). The tube was 54 feet long and weighed 4 tons. More pictures, links, and a view of the mirror: http://www.arm.ac.uk/history/birr6.html Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Burn't cookies not off topic

2006-10-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of the vacuum of space. It is said that lunar samples, when first exposed to the Earth's atmosphere, have a burnt smell. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Dave Freeman mjwy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list meteorite

Re: Re-2: [meteorite-list] Some clicks from other meteorites

2006-10-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
://heliconfilter.com/pages/index.php?id=509 Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:28 AM

Re: [meteorite-list] Venus May Have Once Had A Moon

2006-10-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
moment when I found this table which says the moment of inertia of the Earth is 0.3335. Enough data there to scratch up the graph, if you want it bad... Plot away! And it will prove... What was that again? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Venus May Have Once Had A Moon

2006-10-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
have a weakness for, or a higher risk of catching. It's why I wasn't happy with dynamicists defining what is a planet? If you find his paper on Mercury as Venus's satellite, read it with a double dose of caution. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Does world-record meteorite await unearthing inKansas?

2006-10-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
.) I look forward to the discovery of a 216,000 pound pallasite. The market will be in ruin! I expect the sale of artistic coffee tables made from slabs of pallasite and pallasite poker chips (to go with today's meteorite guitar picks). Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Rock and Gem Article + Alien Metal?

2006-10-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the fine point that it's the EXCESS of iridium there that makes the proof, since the Earth contains iridium. Now, if you want alien metal, you have to find Technetium! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Notkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] [ebay] ending in about 2 days

2006-10-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of these terms need refining, and that's one small step in that direction. Now I'm going to belly up to the bar and watch the rest of this barfight from there (I hope). Go to it, boys! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists Find New 154-Pound Pallasite Meteoritein Kansas Field

2006-10-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All Same AP story everywhere, but here's a photo of the find: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15294779/displaymode/1176/rstry/15294523/ and another photo of it being unearthed: http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=526166category=BCCode=newsdate=10/16/2006 Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] What to do with meteorite dust

2006-10-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Somebody (sorry, somebody!) suggested Gelatin Capsules of pharmaceutical grade. They will yellow with age also, eventually turning dark brown if you wait 40 years or so. Sterling K. Webb (Pharmacists in the family since 1921

[meteorite-list] TEKTITE STUFF

2006-10-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
! Downloadable: A Laboratory Model of Splash-Form Tektites, by Elkins-Tanton, 2002 http://web.mit.edu/nnf/people/jbico/elkins03.pdf Somebody else besides me is sure to want to pour over these... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Cause: 'SickEarth'

2006-10-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in the buckeyballs?). I don't know if the Wilkes Land Crater will pan out, nor Becker's Buckyballs, but if this were Las Vegas, I would still put my money on the Permian Whacker (knockout in the first round) over the Siberian Gassy Wipeout as The Winnah! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] P-T Extinction: 'SickEarth' Book Recommendation

2006-10-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
by the press in that way. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Mr EMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] P-T

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism (Info Please)

2006-10-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
system. If you Google for discordant chondrule age, you get arguments over 2 or 3 million years in the age of something 4-1/2 billion years old. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ?

2003-06-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to measure up in either system. Hey, I sure hope that explains everything... Sterling K. Webb -- Tom aka James Knudson wrote: Hello List, This is meteorite related, it may not seem to be, but take it from me

Re: [meteorite-list] King tut?

2003-06-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, There is a King Tut meteorite. It refers to the Pharoah's small personal knife made from a piece of meteoritic iron. It was found in the tomb. I believe Tut was wearing it around his neck. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ?

2003-06-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that were different from every other district's! Merchant, this piece of cloth is short by half a foot! --- No, My Lord, these are Flemish feet, which, as is well-known, are shorter than London feet by the width of two barleycorns each! At least, a meter is a meter is a meter everywhere! Sterling K

Re: Please Unsubcribe... [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ?

2003-06-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
mice look alike to me Sterling K. Webb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they are all related in their basic DNA. So it is possible at a very basic level that they are all related. OK, then if that's the case

Re: [meteorite-list] Ot ebay reporting?

2003-06-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to the face of the guitar, and nothing does that job like ivory.) I even managed to use only half of the piece of ivory, so I have enough left over for another bridge saddle, if I ever find another guitar good enough to deserve it. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] How Many Meteorites Fall?

2003-06-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in just 11 years we have a fabulous cluster of hits in Park Forest, which just re-inforces the suggestion that the fall rate is higher than is usually thought (more like 80,000 + per year). Sterling K. Webb A NOVEL

Re: [meteorite-list] Seems PF fell on 3/27 and NOT on 3/26...

2003-06-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and so on. The highest elevation in Illinois is in the far-off northwestern tippy-tip at 1235 feet, but that is a Wisconsin hill whose crest is a few thousand feet over into Illinois. Sterling K. Webb Michael

Re: [meteorite-list] Need help naming new group

2003-06-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
large impact rubble (the Vestoids) is the source of the HED's that arrive on Earth. Of course, if we are going ultimately to a nomenclature that is based on the actual source body for meteorites, this would mean that the term might end up being Vestoid peridotite! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] usps insurance is fraud

2003-06-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
they can hand it off to somebody else who will sign for it and get them off the hook! It's your best protection. Sterling K. Webb --- harlan trammell wrote: we all buy insurance to ship our skyrox. but it is really

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: Expensive?

2003-06-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Obviously, as TheSmallCollector, I could never afford an entire chunk of antimatter, but maybe there's a market for antimatter micro's? Let's see, if you divide $63,000,000,000,000 by Avagadro's Number, one anti-hydrogen atom would be worth only a tiny fraction of a penny! Of

Re: [meteorite-list] Expensive?

2003-06-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
will a general decline in meteorite prices continue? Is it a lull? A temporary dip? A re-adjustment? A momentary oversupply? A slide? Was there a bubble? Is this normal? Your two cents worth? Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] New Solar system found ...

2003-07-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
: -23.99 Y: 34.36 Z: -34.58 Interestingly enough, the original purpose of the search which found this Jupiter was to find stars with planets much smaller than Jupiter, like Neptune or Uranus. As always, it seems the universe has failed to read the proposal... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoric water?

2003-07-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
they don't think about them anymore. Does that help? Or make it worse? Sterling K. Webb -- David Freeman wrote: Dear List, Geologic Associates; I came across the term meteoric water while reading up on pre

Re: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

2003-07-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
than Park Forest teenagers, pub crawlers, and cops, sincere as their observations may have been. And, lastly, as if we needed any more proof of the utter unreliability of eye witnesses... Sterling K. Webb

Re: Fwd: [meteorite-list] Here's a NEW TOPIC

2003-07-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of the List than certain too-lengthy threads of late. So how should this problem be handled? I don't think anyone else sees it as a problem. Sterling K. Webb Let the discussion begin. Mr. Bob Subject: [meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] dBay screwed up

2003-08-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Remember, the new eBay pages say very prominently: POWERED BY IBM I believe it... Sterling K. Webb - Adam Hupe wrote: Ebay suffered a total power outage at there main hosting facilities

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
kilometers in a bone-dry climate, there should be about 10 meteorites if there's never been a flash flood or rain of any kind for millennia. In a moderately dry climate like Arizona (which does have a mild monsoonal rain), it's more like maybe there is one and maybe there isn't. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
wonder if there isn't some way of factoring out the finder's percentage and deriving not just a minimum fall rate but the actual fall rate from such an area collection? Sterling K. Webb Matson, Robert wrote: Yes -- the MORP study rate

Re: [meteorite-list] Serious question?

2003-09-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
surface of the Earth is too hectic. Sterling K. Webb - Tom aka James Knudson wrote: Hello List, Scientists are now thinking that mars is red from meteorite dust, right? They also say tons of meteorite dust are landing

Re: [meteorite-list] Serious question?

2003-09-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the Southern hemisphere) is an immense and ancient impact basin covering half the planet! Now, that would have been one heck of an impactor! Sterling K. Webb --- S. Singletary wrote: At 08:55 PM 9/18/2003 +1000, chris sharp wrote

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite from Jupiter

2003-09-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Aha! The old Meteorite from Jupiter scam. You buy a precious piece of the Great Gas Giant. It arrives in a chilled container. You put it in your display case. The next morning, it's gone! All evaporated! Another sucker has fallen for the Vanishing Hydrogen Racket! The Jovians have another good

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: NP Article, 12-1950 Meteorite Crater Found in Canada

2003-09-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
batholiths and then rings around the rings... And wherever you have rings, you can erode a circle. Sterling K. Webb --- Charles R. Viau wrote: Waiting for the day that some news comes of the ongoing investigations in Hudson

Re: [meteorite-list] Brahin stability

2003-09-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, a rusty Brahin, which is now slowly disintegrating. I think it has another year or two to go before all the iron is gone and I have a box of expensive olivine crystals. Sterling K. Webb Martin Altmann wrote: Hi again, does

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites in limestone - Example from Sweden

2003-10-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
period. Seems like everybody was having a bad day... Sterling K. Webb - Robert Szep wrote: Hello Paul and list... I have found IRON NODULES in ~500 million year old limestone and know where to find more

Re: [meteorite-list] About the swedish fossile-meteorites (from the news-group archives 1997)

2003-10-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Omigod! The Nakhla Mollusk! Did anyone actually see this Mollusk being struck by the meteorite? Or is this merely a hysterical rumor being spread far and wide in the Mollusk community? Sterling K. Webb Pekka

[meteorite-list] Wales Meteor Images

2003-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, I believe the corect scientific terminology for meteoritic objects of the size of Hoba is HUMUNGOUS... Sterling K. Webb - Tom aka James Knudson wrote: Hello All, A current ebay auction has a 2510g Nantan described

Re: [meteorite-list] Attention, more ebay SPOOF emails

2003-10-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
would be .ru Free enterprise with a heavy emphasis on the free part, like free money, free credit cards (yours), and free from prosecution. Sterling K. Webb --- DNAndrews wrote: Dabo and list

Re: [meteorite-list] Today's meteorite fall anniversary

2003-10-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Gregory, Nothing like a near-miss by an act of god to marvelously focus one's attention! Sterling --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hastily stuck this piece in my pocket (as I ran like hell out

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites On Display In Orissa, India

2003-10-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hey, I vote for Jupiter... Sterling K. Webb Ron Baalke wrote: Meteorites on display in Orissa The geologists say the meteorites that struck the state may have their origin either in Jupiter or Mars. Okay, the geologist probably told the newsman they had their origin BETWEEN Jupiter

Re: [meteorite-list] Recognizing a Venusian meteorite

2003-10-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of the melted crust. Hey, I said it was whopping big, didn't I? So, what you do is a rare gas analysis of the suspected Venus meteorite, and if the Argon 40:36 ratio is the same, then Venusian meteorite is its name, as Johnny Cochran would say. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Recognizing a Venusian meteorite

2003-10-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
atmosphere to mix with the residues of the melted crust. Hey, I said it was whopping big, didn't I? So, what you do is a rare gas analysis of the suspected Venus meteorite, and if the Argon 40:36 ratio is the same, then Venusian meteorite is its name, as Johnny Cochran would say. Sterling K

[meteorite-list] Venusian Meteorites (Again) and Mercury Too!

2003-10-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, if it doesn't hit anything else, it'll get here! Ditto for the Mercury rock. What's a hundred million years to a rock? So, where are those dozens and dozens of Venus meteorites? Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [meteorite-list] EBay analysis

2003-10-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
objects? And I intend to keep right on doing it. I'm just not talking... Sterling K. Webb Jamie Stephens wrote: Listees, I'm gonna suspend any more preliminary analysis publishing. I've already started

Re: [meteorite-list] H-chondrite or mesosiderite?

2003-10-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
but not thoroughly mixed. Maybe we should call your stone a mesochondrite? (Good luck with the MetCom...) My 2 centavos (worth less than two cents). Sterling K. Webb --- Graham Christensen wrote: Come on. No one even willing to guess

Re: [meteorite-list] EBay analysis

2003-10-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, I have since discovered that the 30+ day auctions that I tried to retrive from eBay in July and about which I was told the data had expired, are now back and recoverable. My theory is that that they were switching to the new IBM servers this summer (and the new page format), and that the

Re: [meteorite-list] Who know the email of this idiot?

2003-11-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Mike, List, The present coalition goverment of Italy includes the Fascist Party. Sterling --- Michael Farmer wrote: I did not know that Italy was returning to it's fascists roots.

[meteorite-list] Chixculub vs. Lake Murray

2003-11-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
material. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Seven New Galaxy Class Meteorites on eBay

2003-11-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. At any rate, there seems to be nothing to suggest that any amount of negative feedback would prevent any bad seller from continuing for as long as he/she wanted to. Certainly, eBay won't. After all, they just provide the venue... and the fraudulent statistics. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Moon Laser Base Proposed for Asteroid-Comet Hazard

2003-11-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
either... Sterling K. Webb -- Ron Baalke wrote: the laser station is proposed to give a powerful laser effect on that object to deflect or destroy it, Ivashkin reports... Ivashkin concluded that international cooperation

[meteorite-list] Re: New Naklha Dog Evidence

2002-01-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(and speed) of bullet penetrates a meter in loose sand? This might yield another constraint as to the feasibility of the story overall. Sterling K. Webb Ron Baalke wrote: OK, what's new? Not that Mohammed saw a fearful column that no one else saw in Denshal

[meteorite-list] Re: New Naklha Dog Evidence

2002-01-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
this report that I would quarrel with as unlikely or invented or too imaginative to be true. And The New York Times does have a pretty good reputation for a journalistic yellow rag! Sterling K. Webb Ron Baalke wrote: > > The quote describing the circ

[meteorite-list] Direct Detection of VLF EMR Produced by Fireballs

2002-01-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
song of a thunderstorm in New Zealand or Australia or anywhere else in the world. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] bubbly tektites

2002-02-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of tektites must have had more evolved orbits than a simple sub-orbital ballistic. Just one more of the many not-quite-explained characteristics of these enigmatic objects. Sterling K. Webb --- Graham Christensen wrote: Hello Astro list and meteorite list

Re: [meteorite-list] A Tektite Shower?

2002-02-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
as dry as a real one. Even nuclear bomb glasses are not quite as dry as a tektite. Does this article give the water content of these tektites? Sterling K. Webb --- Footnote: There are anomalous Russian tektites that are not part of the Big Four tektite fields: 1

[meteorite-list] Strange Martian Surface Feature

2002-03-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
? What the Hell is this? Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange Martian Surface Feature

2002-03-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to follow its trail, not just throw yourself into an abyss of silliness. Sterling K. Webb - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In regard to the comment about Hoagland being an alleged nutcase I have to ask why? Why is it that someone is a nutcase when he or she

Re: [meteorite-list] Digital Photography

2002-03-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Martin and List, Translating digital pixels to film resolution is complicated. The highest resolution 35mm format lens commercially available, the Carl Zeiss T* Planar, has a resolution of 63 lines per mm when tested on a standard film resolution card. Since resolving a line needs a

Re: [meteorite-list] Weston Fall Newspaper

2002-03-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
ionally an obsessive typesetter will re-create the old style by using "f" and then going in and hand-cutting one side of the crossbar off every "f" with an xacto knife... Sterling K. Webb - Mark Bostick wrote: H

Re: [meteorite-list] re: Comedy....Jake

2002-03-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Dave, How about: The Family Of Man acquires a new member? Sterling Dave Harris wrote: I just wish I could think of a snappy caption but I just can't! dave -- In gentle decay, dave

Re: [meteorite-list] Searching for Meteorites

2002-04-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
or if your yard is much bigger, you would only have to wait, on average, one million years! Sterling K. Webb :-D --- Jason Phillips wrote: Hello List, As I am preparing for the spring lawn moving season I decided to combine my

[meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite Pronunciation

2002-04-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in the Field Museum in Chicago. The whereabouts of the car is unknown. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite Pronunciation

2002-04-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the car. The velocity is too low to produce even micro-craters and the soil fill too soft to resist penetration. My theory of a possibility, anyway... Sterling K. Webb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, List, The almost entire main mass of the car

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercurian Meteorites, Chances of: REPOST

2002-04-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Frank, That was my Whoops! moment, I think. In reading the flurry of posts, it was not clear to me that only NWA 011 and apparently not Dhofar 007 is being suggested for Mercurian origin. On the other hand, if Dhofar 007 is a new kind of eucrite, does that mean that it must be from some

Re: [meteorite-list] Listserve revision?

2002-04-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Dude! You're Getting a Dell? Sorry. Some straight lines, I just can't resist... Sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...but I'll be getting a new Dell in a couple of months. Regards, Tom Randall IMCA# 6170 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] sho 'nuff is quiet

2002-04-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, As I calculate, these flurries of sure is quiet messages seem to preceed a knock-down bare-knuckle bloodbath feud of some kind by a MTB (Mean Time to Blowup) of 1.3 days +/- 0.7 days. :-) Sterling - Michael Blood

Re: [meteorite-list] sho 'nuff is quiet

2002-04-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Or, it could just be a quantum fluctuation, tax shock, spring fever, or nothin' much to say... Sterling -- Tracy Latimer wrote: Ya know, you can probably build a really keen fallout shelter out of uncatalogued NWA and Sahara meteorites.

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Mercury Meteorite Puzzle

2002-05-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Eric, List, The generally accepted explanation for the olivine crystals is that only at the base of the mantle (at the mantle/core boundary) do you find the temperature, pressure, and most important: the slow cooling times, that make the formation of pure olivine crystals possible.

Re: [meteorite-list] Ebay to buy Paypal

2002-07-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
services, sucking up a huge market share. If you can't beat'em, buy'em out. Sterling K. Webb dean bessey wrote: This cant be a positive sign for anybody who regularly uses paypal to pay for stuff that they buy on the internet. You have to think that ebay will use it to promote their items

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