[meteorite-list] BBC Sky at night prog features meteorites( credits Mike Farmer) + Haag prog.

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:31:34 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <398627.79508.qm_at_web33115.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Graham,
thanks for the link, I just watched the show.
I gave them permission to use the photos, I like the
way it turned out.
Michael Farmer


--- ensoramanda <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> First of all...thanks to all those that replied to
> my post Dirk, Ian,
> Peter, Jason, etc. about the possible impact crater
> formation I
> photographed whilst flying over N China/Mongolia.
>
>
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o43/LaburnumStudio/Craters/Crater-.jpg
>
> I am still not convinced that I have identified it.
>
> Some of you helped by plotting the flight path from
> London to HongKong
> to narrow down the search...but the most likely
> known crater....Tabun
> Khara Obo crater..seems to be too far east of the
> flight path...although
> it looks about right.
>
> Next..
>
> Interesting series on UKTV Documentary at the
> moment...Earthshock...last
> nights was about earth impacts and featured Bob Haag
> for a while hunting
> and in his strongroom.
>
> I seem to be having a great meteorite month. (Pity I
> cant cap it with a
> Tucson Visit :-( ) This months BBC Sky at Night is
> on cosmic debris? I
> just caught up with it online (after my trek around
> the Ozzy meteorite
> museums and craters).... at...
>
>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml
>
> worth a look...you can watch it online for a while.
> Mike is credited for
> his Carancas pictures which feature prominently.
>
> It just so happens it features Dr Richard Greenwood
> whom Prof Colin
> Pillinger referred me to when we met at a recent
> Flamsteed lecture.
>
>
http://www.open.ac.uk/science/pssri/about-the-department/news/news.php?article_id=12768
>
>
>
> Some nice info on their site about involvement in
> the Stardust, Rosetta
> and other missions too.
>
> Quite a coincidence as Richard is showing me around
> their facilities and
> collection tomorrow.
> He has just helped with the classification of
> Carancas...quote
>
> "In terms of meteorite samples we have pretty much
> finished our work on
> Carancas. The Peruvian mineralogical survey were
> able to supply a sample
> for oxygen isotope analysis and we were able to
> confirm its
> classification as H4/5 ( Met. Bull
> http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/index.php "
>
> So looking forward to heading down to the OU with
> some unclassified
> samples in the morning.
>
> Graham Ensor, Nr Barwell, UK
>
>
>
>
>
> Very best wishes
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> So tomorrow I am off with some of my space rocks to
> look around the
> meteorite collection and classification facilities
> at the OU Planetary
> and Space Sciences Research Institute in Milton
> Keynes.....should be fun!
>
> G
>
>
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