[meteorite-list] Micromounts; craters; SL9 impact movie

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Aug 19 17:22:44 2006
Message-ID: <00bf01c6c3d5$871f3ea0$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

I picked up a large collectin of tiny stuff last year from CJ. Fun to look
through. A little pricey but definitely worth it.
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine_at_yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 10:04 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Micromounts; craters; SL9 impact movie


> Hi all -
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> I few thoughts in the night.
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> On micromounts, I seem to rememeber that several years
> ago someone had assembled a box set, with a wide
> assortment of meteorites (about $400 at the time)...
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> I also remembered that Nininger produced a book which
> had a canyon diablo in a plastic bubble...
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> I also remembered that Jensen scientific was selling a
> collection for educational use...
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> So, why not a childrens' book, which has cheap
> examples of the three common types packaged in bubbles
> attached to the pages? Kind of like a "Rocks From
> Space" Jr. edition - a basic primer. Think of all the
> aggravation a book like this would save you when those
> kids became adults.
>
> Second,would someone put together an internet list of
> craters with with Google Earth/ and or Microsoft Earth
> links? add age, and leave a column for impactor type,
> which you can fill in with "unknown" for most of them
> right now.
>
> Finally, where is a movie showing the impacts of all
> of the fragments of SL9 with Jupiter? While we have
> movies or images of each impact, they've never been
> combined. No one has remapped the colors and re-sized
> them. Simulated natural color would be nice.
>
> good hunting,
> Ed
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