[meteorite-list] That's it! I'm heading for Mars. Grimsby

From: Roman Jirasek <romanj_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:52:47 -0400
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Mike Farmer, Jim Strope, Patrick Hermann, Rob Wesel, Mike Bandli, and I
were in Grimsby, hunting. Farmer found a 69 gramer! That's the 3rd stone
only
for this fall so far. Rob Wesel will post more photos soon.

Roman Jirasek
www.meteoritelabels.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Catterton" <star_wars_collector at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] That's it! I'm heading for Mars.


> Im sure you will be standing in line behind Mike Farmer!
>
> PS... where has he been? have not seen a post from him in some time.
>
> Greg C.
> www.wanderingstarmeteorites.com
> IMCA 4682
>
>
> --- On Sun, 10/18/09, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] That's it! I'm heading for Mars.
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 8:46 PM
>> http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/18/opportunity-discovers-still-another-meteorite-findit-on-google-mar/
>>
>> Opportunity must be driving down Meteorite Alley on Mars.
>> The rover has come
>> across still another meteorite, the third space rock it has
>> found the past few
>> months, and fourth overall since 2005. This one is called
>> Mackinac, which
>> continues the "island" theme by which the science team has
>> dubbed the
>> meteorites. Block Island was found in July 2009, and
>> Opportunity came upon
>> Shelter Island the end of September (around sol 2020 for
>> the rover). Mackinac
>> was found on sol 2034 (Oct 13), and it looks very similar
>> in composition to the
>> two earlier meteorites. Opportunity analyzed the meteorites
>> and found they were
>> made of iron and nickel. The image above was color
>> calibrated by Stu Atkinson,
>> who hangs out at UnmannedSpaceflight.com. You can find all
>> the raw images
>> Opportunity has sent back to Earth here, and raw images
>> from Spirit here.
>>
>> You can also follow Opportunity's travels through Meridiani
>> Planum on its way to
>> Endeavour Crater at one of Stu's blogs, Road to Endeavour.
>> But ? and this is
>> very fun ? you can also follow Oppy on Google Mars, and
>> see where it has found
>> the meteorites. Tesheiner on UMSF regularly updates a route
>> map, pinpointing the
>> spots where the rover stops. Just go to Google Mars
>> (download Google Earth and
>> Mars here if you don't have it yet), open up Google Mars,
>> then click on this
>> link, download and open, and you'll be transported to
>> Opportunity's location on
>> Mars. Extreme, extreme cool.
>>
>> Now, you'll notice that region of Google Mars doesn't have
>> high-resolution
>> imagery yet. They're working on it. In the meantime,
>> though, if you want to see
>> a great mosaic of the terrain that Opportunity is traveling
>> through, check out
>> this image below created by Ken Kremer, also of UMSF. This
>> is from Sol 2010
>> showing Nereus Crater and dunes on the Road to Endeavour,
>> where Oppy was just
>> prior to discovering Shelter Island. Ken created this
>> mosaic from raw images
>> from the Cornell Pancam raw images, stitching multiple
>> images together and
>> calibrating the color.
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