[meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 106, Issue 32

From: James Masny <sciflyer25_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:59:18 -0400
Message-ID: <CAMpiMSZHYffO=HgArJJkzGeRWd0AVhv4z5zMuRWRJCqj-FD8tw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Cannot wait to see the new CA fall. I hope recovery efforts produce
enough material to go around to the smaller collectors!
Cheers,
Jim

On 4/24/12, meteorite-list-request at meteoritecentral.com
<meteorite-list-request at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Send Meteorite-list mailing list submissions to
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> meteorite-list-request at meteoritecentral.com
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> meteorite-list-owner at meteoritecentral.com
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Meteorite-list digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: Steve Curry -- the law catches up (Grand Mars Meteorite)(
> (dorifry)
> 2. More info on asteroid mining company (Yinan Wang)
> 3. Fw: Fw: Looking for help in locating the4/22sightingnear
> Turlock, CA (Richard Montgomery)
> 4. Corrected radar link; warning about infrasound solution
> (Matson, Robert D.)
> 5. Re: Photos and write up of recent behind the scenes visit to
> the NHM London (Martin Goff)
> 6. Re: Looking for help in locating the 4/22 sightingnear
> Turlock, CA (Marc Fries)
> 7. AD - 54 Great Auctions Ending - No Reserve! (Adam Hupe)
> 8. New California meteorite found! (Sean T. Murray)
> 9. New California Meteorite (Anita Westlake)
> 10. Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It? (Ron Baalke)
> 11. Re: New California meteorite found! (Mirko Graul)
> 12. Re: New California meteorite found! (karmaka)
> 13. Asteroid Mining Plans Revealed by Planetary Resources, Inc
> (Ron Baalke)
> 14. Re: New California meteorite found! (Mendy Ouzillou)
> 15. Re: New California meteorite found! (Yinan Wang)
> 16. Re: New California meteorite found! (Matthias B?rmann)
> 17. Test (IRON SKY)
> 18. Re: Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
> (Stuart McDaniel)
> 19. Re: Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
> (lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu)
> 20. Blind-sided (Matson, Robert D.)
> 21. Re: Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
> (Stuart McDaniel)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:27:37 -0400
> From: "dorifry" <dorifry at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Steve Curry -- the law catches up (Grand
> Mars Meteorite)(
> To: "tracy latimer" <daistiho at hotmail.com>
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Message-ID: <1F7B95DD7EB94BDEBE9C113BF3B81CDA at DoriPC>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> http://www.gospelbreadoflife.org/booklets/Meteorite/content.html
>
>
> Phil Whitmer
> Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tracy latimer" <daistiho at hotmail.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 1:21 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Steve Curry -- the law catches up
>
>
>
> It couldn't happen to a nicer yoyo. Everyone will, I believe, be very happy
> when this thorn in the collective side of meteorite science is removed. I'm
> still not sure if it's deliberate deception or simple self delusion.
> Remember the preacher who was told by God that he had an authentic Mars
> meteorite?
>
> Best!
> Tracy Latimer
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:59:23 -0400
> From: Yinan Wang <veomega at gmail.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] More info on asteroid mining company
> To: METEORITE LIST <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <CALpO9HeqGRTA84mK4ObhqdZ59VVc=WxibPvQx4s6SMB182_LYA at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Here's a bit more on the new Asteroid mining company:
> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/24/breaking-private-company-does-indeed-plan-to-mine-asteroids-and-i-think-they-can-do-it/
>
> Would asteroid mining affect the prices of meteorites in the future?
>
> -Yinan
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:29:41 -0700
> From: "Richard Montgomery" <rickmont at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fw: Fw: Looking for help in locating
> the4/22sightingnear Turlock, CA
> To: "'Meteorite-list List'" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID: <82D3C3DA31DC4284A6DCA556F4F3C9CB at bosoheadPC>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=response
>
> Whoops...thanks Jim....
>
> http://spaceweather.com This is from Ron Baalke's post on 4/23 3:33pm Small
> Asteroid Explodes Over California. The pin-point map is in that link.
>
> Richard Montgomery
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Wooddell" <nf114ec at npgcable.com>
> To: "Richard Montgomery" <rickmont at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Looking for help in locating
> the4/22sightingnear Turlock, CA
>
>
>> Hi Richard!
>>
>> The link does not work
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard Montgomery" <rickmont at earthlink.net>
>> To: "'Meteorite-list List'" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:19 AM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fw: Looking for help in locating
>> the4/22sightingnear Turlock, CA
>>
>>
>>> Click the link http://radar.wearther.gov/Conus/full.php for a map NASA
>>> pegged for the break-up of the bolide calculated to be rather large and
>>> slow-moving....no direction pin-pointed. It looks to be around Dogtown,
>>> north of Mariposa.
>>>
>>> What does everything think??
>>>
>>> -Richard Montgomery
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Keith Wandry" <keith at lobstershack.com>
>>> To: "Jim Wooddell" <nf114ec at npgcable.com>
>>> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Brien Cook"
>>> <contact at briencook.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 9:21 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Looking for help in locating the
>>> 4/22sightingnear Turlock, CA
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm in the Bay Area and am up for any field searches...
>>>>
>>>> Keith Wandry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Jim Wooddell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Brian!
>>>>>
>>>>> I imagine a lot of people are looking at this one. However, I am using
>>>>>
>>>>> the S.W.A.G. method and I'll say it is more North.
>>>>> Witness directions LPS all over the place....need more cameras!
>>>>> Will be interested in seeing what comes of this!
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brien Cook" <contact at briencook.com>
>>>>> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 1:41 PM
>>>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Looking for help in locating the 4/22
>>>>> sightingnear Turlock, CA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm in Sacramento and have been following this sighting since
>>>>>> yesterday morning. I've pulled some data and maps and I'm narrowing in
>>>>>>
>>>>>> on the location. Is anyone else working this one as well? If so, I'd
>>>>>> like to join forces with anyone who's in the area and interested. I
>>>>>> could go down there in the next day or two.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________________
>>>>>> Unlimited Disk, Data Transfer, PHP/MySQL Domain Hosting
>>>>>> http://www.doteasy.com
>>>>>> ______________________________________________
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Visit the Archives at
>>>>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>>>>>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>>>>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>>>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>>>>
>>>>> ______________________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>> Visit the Archives at
>>>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>>>>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>>>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>>>
>>>> Keith Wandry
>>>> keith at lobstershack.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ______________________________________________
>>>>
>>>> Visit the Archives at
>>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>>>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>>>
>>>
>>> ______________________________________________
>>>
>>> Visit the Archives at
>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:37:01 -0700
> From: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Corrected radar link; warning about
> infrasound solution
> To: "Richard Montgomery" <rickmont at earthlink.net>, "Meteorite-list
> List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <7C640E28081AEE4B952F008D1E913F17052A6D10 at 0461-its-exmb04.us.saic.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> There's a spelling error in your link -- should be:
>
> <http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full.php>
>
> That said, the fall location was not near Mariposa, and since the
> infrasound
> coordinates were based on only two ground sites, I wouldn't place too
> much
> confidence in the solution. A minimum of three sites is required for
> triangulation -- more than three if the ground sites detected a bow
> shock
> rather than a terminal burst (which seems very likely in this case).
>
> --Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
> Richard Montgomery
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:20 AM
> To: 'Meteorite-list List'
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fw: Looking for help in locating
> the4/22sightingnear Turlock, CA
>
> Click the link http://radar.wearther.gov/Conus/full.php for a map NASA
> pegged for the break-up of the bolide calculated to be rather large and
> slow-moving....no direction pin-pointed. It looks to be around Dogtown,
> north of Mariposa.
>
> What does everything think??
>
> -Richard Montgomery
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:47:27 +0100
> From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Photos and write up of recent behind the
> scenes visit to the NHM London
> To: "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <CAKEL=tCu=+4099VvChqzKBonc5eKRhY8LfCSMc_14tDTRzuwbQ at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Thankyou Bernd for the kind words. We had a fantastic day and really
> did see some amazing specimens that are not very often seen.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Goff
> www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
> IMCA #3387
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:02:27 -0700
> From: Marc Fries <mfries8 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Looking for help in locating the 4/22
> sightingnear Turlock, CA
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP3814FEE43D5BE14CA385CFF1260 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed
>
> Howdy all
>
> I posted a short synopsis of radar data on the California daylight
> fireball. I believe it produced a strewn field stretching west from the
> town of Coloma, CA:
>
> http://radarmeteorites.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/coloma-ca-22-apr-2012-1452-utc/
>
> Cheers,
> Marc Fries
>
>
>
> On 4/23/12 3:41 PM, Jim Wooddell wrote:
>> Brian!
>>
>> I imagine a lot of people are looking at this one. However, I am
>> using the S.W.A.G. method and I'll say it is more North.
>> Witness directions LPS all over the place....need more cameras!
>> Will be interested in seeing what comes of this!
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brien Cook" <contact at briencook.com>
>> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 1:41 PM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Looking for help in locating the 4/22
>> sightingnear Turlock, CA
>>
>>
>>> I'm in Sacramento and have been following this sighting since
>>> yesterday morning. I've pulled some data and maps and I'm narrowing
>>> in on the location. Is anyone else working this one as well? If so,
>>> I'd like to join forces with anyone who's in the area and interested.
>>> I could go down there in the next day or two.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________________
>>> Unlimited Disk, Data Transfer, PHP/MySQL Domain Hosting
>>> http://www.doteasy.com
>>> ______________________________________________
>>>
>>> Visit the Archives at
>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:57:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] AD - 54 Great Auctions Ending - No Reserve!
> To: Adam <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <1335297468.95814.YahooMailNeo at web162901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Dear List Members,
>
> I have 54 great auctions ending this evening.? All were started out at just
> 99 cents with no reserves!
>
> Please take a look if you can spare a few moments.
>
> Link to all auctions:
> http://shop.ebay.com/raremeteorites!/m.html
>
>
> Thank you for looking and if you are bidding, good luck.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Adam Hupe
> The Hupe Collection
> Team LunarRock
> IMCA 2185
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:31:59 -0400
> From: "Sean T. Murray" <stm at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID: <72058AD2A2E64DCAB6FBF39715CC46C3 at PlatinumII>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> It is an honor to announce that, at 11:00 am local, Robert Ward was the
> first to recover a stone from the April 22, 2012, California fireball --
> which was evidently generated by a large, carbonaceous CM mass. Robert is
> now responsible for the initial recovery of two-out-of-three-ever California
> witnessed falls, including Red Canyon Lake.
>
> Congratulations, to Robert!
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:38:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Anita Westlake <anitawestlake at att.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New California Meteorite
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Message-ID: <1335299919.30354.YahooMailRC at web83803.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Way to go Robert! You're the Man!
> Anita
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was
> It?
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List)
> Message-ID: <201204242040.q3OKeqFg004526 at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-114
>
> Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> April 24, 2012
>
> A bright ball of light traveling east to west was seen over the skies of
> central/northern California Sunday morning, April 22. The former space
> rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth's atmosphere around 8 a.m. PDT.
> Reports of the fireball have come in from as far north as Sacramento,
> Calif. and as far east as North Las Vegas, Nev.
>
> Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space
> Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., estimates the object was about the
> size of a minivan, weighed in at around 154,300 pounds (70 metric tons)
> and at the time of disintegration released energy equivalent to a
> 5-kiloton explosion.
>
> "Most meteors you see in the night's sky are the size of tiny stones or
> even grains of sand and their trail lasts all of a second or two," said
> Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet
> Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Fireballs you can see
> relatively easily in the daytime and are many times that size - anywhere
> from a baseball-sized object to something as big as a minivan."
>
> Elizabeth Silber of the Meteor Group at the Western University of
> Canada, Ontario, estimates the location of its explosion in the upper
> atmosphere above California's Central Valley.
>
> Eyewitnesses of this fireball join a relatively exclusive club. "An
> event of this size might happen about once a year," said Yeomans. "But
> most of them occur over the ocean or an uninhabited area, so getting to
> see one is something special."
>
> NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing
> close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The
> Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard,"
> discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and establishes
> their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our
> planet. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's
> Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the
> California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
> More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at:
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch .
>
> DC Agle 818-393-9011
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> agle at jpl.nasa.gov
>
> 2012-114
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:44:04 +0100 (BST)
> From: Mirko Graul <m_graul at yahoo.de>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
> To: "Sean T. Murray" <stm at bellsouth.net>, Meteorite List
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <1335300244.46333.YahooMailNeo at web171601.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Dear Sean,
> thats are realy great news.
> Congratulations Robert !!
> Absolutely incredible!
> I can not wait to see the first photos.....
> ?
> Best regards Mirko
>
>
> Mirko Graul Meteorite
> Quittenring.4
> 16321 Bernau
> GERMANY
>
> Phone: 0049-1724105015
> E-Mail: m_graul at yahoo.de
> WEB: www.meteorite-mirko.de
>
> Member of The Meteoritical Society
> (International Society for Meteoritics and Planetery Science)
>
> IMCA-Member: 2113
> (International Meteorite Collectors Association)
>
>
>>________________________________
>>Von: Sean T. Murray <stm at bellsouth.net>
>>An: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>Gesendet: 22:31 Dienstag, 24.April 2012
>>Betreff: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
>>
>>It is an honor to announce that, at 11:00 am local, Robert Ward was the
>> first to recover a stone from the April 22, 2012, California fireball --?
>> which was evidently generated by a large, carbonaceous CM mass. Robert is
>> now responsible for the initial recovery of two-out-of-three-ever
>> California witnessed falls, including Red Canyon Lake.
>>
>>Congratulations, to Robert!
>>
>>______________________________________________
>>
>>Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>>Meteorite-list mailing list
>>Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:57:38 +0200
> From: "karmaka" <karmaka-meteorites at t-online.de>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Message-ID: <1SMmnq-0pScTI0 at fwd14.aul.t-online.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> I'm stunned !
>
> A carbonaceous fall !!!
>
> Absolutely fantastic !!
>
> Congratulations to Robert !!!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Martin
>
> Von: Mirko Graul <m_graul at yahoo.de>
> An: "Sean T. Murray" <stm at bellsouth.net>, Meteorite List
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
> Datum: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:44:04 +0200
>
> Dear Sean,
> thats are realy great news.
> Congratulations Robert !!
> Absolutely incredible!
> I can not wait to see the first photos.....
>
> Best regards Mirko
>
>
> Mirko Graul Meteorite
> Quittenring.4
> 16321 Bernau
> GERMANY
>
> Phone: 0049-1724105015
> E-Mail: m_graul at yahoo.de
> WEB: www.meteorite-mirko.de
>
> Member of The Meteoritical Society
> (International Society for Meteoritics and Planetery Science)
>
> IMCA-Member: 2113
> (International Meteorite Collectors Association)
>
>
> >________________________________
> >Von: Sean T. Murray <stm at bellsouth.net>
> >An: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> >Gesendet: 22:31 Dienstag, 24.April 2012
> >Betreff: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
> >
> >It is an honor to announce that, at 11:00 am local, Robert Ward was the
> first to recover a stone from the April 22, 2012, California fireball --
> which was evidently generated by a large, carbonaceous CM mass. Robert is
> now responsible for the initial recovery of two-out-of-three-ever California
> witnessed falls, including Red Canyon Lake.
> >
> >Congratulations, to Robert!
> >
> >______________________________________________
> >
> >Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> >Meteorite-list mailing list
> >Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
> >
> >
> >
> ______________________________________________
>
> Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Postfach fast voll? Jetzt kostenlos E-Mail Adresse _at_t-online.de sichern und
> endlich Platz f?r tausende Mails haben.
> http://www.t-online.de/email-kostenlos
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:04:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Asteroid Mining Plans Revealed by Planetary
> Resources, Inc
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List)
> Message-ID: <201204242104.q3OL4ZjU007606 at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
> http://www.planetaryresources.com/2012/04/asteroid-mining-plans-revealed-by-planetary-resources-inc/
>
> Asteroid mining plans revealed by Planetary Resources, Inc.
> Expanding the resource base of humanity to include the solar system
>
> Seattle, Wash. - April 24, 2012 - Planetary Resources, Inc. announced
> today its plan to mine Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) for raw materials,
> ranging from water to precious metals. Through the development of
> cost-effective exploration technologies, the company is poised to
> initiate prospecting missions targeting resource-rich asteroids that are
> easily accessible.
>
> Resource extraction from asteroids will deliver multiple benefits to
> humanity and grow to be valued at tens of billions of dollars annually.
> The effort will tap into the high concentration of precious metals found
> on asteroids and provide a sustainable supply to the ever-growing
> population on Earth.
>
> A single 500-meter platinum-rich asteroid contains the equivalent of all
> the Platinum Group Metals mined in history. "Many of the scarce metals
> and minerals on Earth are in near-infinite quantities in space. As
> access to these materials increases, not only will the cost of
> everything from microelectronics to energy storage be reduced, but new
> applications for these abundant elements will result in important and
> novel applications," said Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Co-Founder and
> Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc.
>
> Additionally, water-rich NEAs will serve as "stepping stones" for deep
> space exploration, providing space-sourced fuel and water to orbiting
> depots. Accessing water resources in space will revolutionize
> exploration and make space travel dramatically more economical.
>
> "Water is perhaps the most valuable resource in space. Accessing a
> water-rich asteroid will greatly enable the large-scale exploration of
> the solar system. In addition to supporting life, water will also be
> separated into oxygen and hydrogen for breathable air and rocket
> propellant," said Eric Anderson, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman,
> Planetary Resources, Inc.
>
> Of the approximately 9,000 known NEAs, there are more than 1,500 that
> are energetically as easy to reach as the Moon. The capability to
> characterize NEAs is on the critical path for Planetary Resources.
> To that end, the company has developed the first line in its family of
> deep-space prospecting spacecraft, the Arkyd-100 Series. The spacecraft
> will be used in low-Earth orbit and ultimately help prioritize the first
> several NEA targets for the company's follow-on Arkyd-300 Series NEA
> swarm expeditions. Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer, said
> "Our mission is not only to expand the world's resource base, but we
> want to increase people's access to, and understanding of, our planet
> and solar system by developing capable and cost-efficient systems."
>
> "The promise of Planetary Resources is to apply commercial innovation to
> space exploration. They are developing cost-effective, production-line
> spacecraft that will visit near-Earth asteroids in rapid succession,
> increasing our scientific knowledge of these bodies and enabling the
> economic development of the resources they contain," said Tom Jones,
> Ph.D., veteran NASA astronaut, planetary scientist and Planetary
> Resources, Inc. advisor.
>
> Planetary Resources, Inc. is financed by industry-launching visionaries,
> including Google CEO Larry Page and Ross Perot, Jr., Chairman of Hillwood
> and The Perot Group, who are committed to expanding the world's resource
> base so that humanity can continue to grow and prosper:
>
> * Eric E. Schmidt, Ph.D., Executive Chairman of Google, Inc.
> (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Planetary Resources, Inc. investor: "The pursuit
> of resources drove the discovery of America and opened the West.
> The same drivers still hold true for opening the space frontier.
> Expanding the resource base for humanity is important for our future."
>
> * K. Ram Shriram, Founder of Sherpalo, Google Board of Directors
> founding member and Planetary Resources, Inc. investor: "I see the
> same potential in Planetary Resources as I did in the early days
> of Google."
>
> * Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., Chairman of Intentional Software
> Corporation and Planetary Resources, Inc. investor: "The
> commercialization of space began with communications satellites
> and is developing for human spaceflight. The next logical step is
> to begin the innovative development of resources from space. I'm
> proud to be part of this effort.'
>
> Some of the company's advisors include film maker and explorer James
> Cameron;
> General T. Michael Moseley (Ret.); Sara Seager, Ph.D.; Mark Sykes, Ph.D.;
> and David Vaskevitch.
>
> Founded in 2009 by Eric Anderson and Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Planetary
> Resources, Inc. is establishing a new paradigm for resource utilization
> that will bring the solar system within humanity's economic sphere of
> influence by enabling low-cost robotic exploration and eventual
> commercial development of asteroids. For more information, please visit
> www.PlanetaryResources.com <http://www.planetaryresources.com/>.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mendy Ouzillou <ouzillou at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <1335301442.12660.YahooMailNeo at web114709.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
>
>
> The 1st observed Martian fall in 50 years (Tissint) and now a significant
> CM fall in California -? wow, what a great time to be involved in
> meteoritics.
>
> Congratulations Robert!
> Mendy
>
>
>
>>________________________________
>> From: Sean T. Murray <stm at bellsouth.net>
>>To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:31 PM
>>Subject: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
>>
>>It is an honor to announce that, at 11:00 am local, Robert Ward was the
>> first to recover a stone from the April 22, 2012, California fireball --?
>> which was evidently generated by a large, carbonaceous CM mass. Robert is
>> now responsible for the initial recovery of two-out-of-three-ever
>> California witnessed falls, including Red Canyon Lake.
>>
>>Congratulations, to Robert!
>>
>>______________________________________________
>>
>>Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>>Meteorite-list mailing list
>>Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 15
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:05:34 -0400
> From: Yinan Wang <veomega at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <CALpO9HcDvL-ku1rMmoHz5fU7Vj5G8nfxCg9VL+9_r0ALRjLFyg at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Congrats!
>
> How long until it hits the market :)
>
> -Yinan
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Sean T. Murray <stm at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> It is an honor to announce that, at 11:00 am local, Robert Ward was the
>> first to recover a stone from the April 22, 2012, California fireball --
>> ?which was evidently generated by a large, carbonaceous CM mass. Robert is
>> now responsible for the initial recovery of two-out-of-three-ever
>> California
>> witnessed falls, including Red Canyon Lake.
>>
>> Congratulations, to Robert!
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:05:42 +0200
> From: Matthias B?rmann <majbaermann at web.de>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
> To: "Sean T. Murray" <stm at bellsouth.net>, "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID: <F642DFD8E592490D8E3EB853E22A7455 at thinkcentre>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=response
>
>
> These are great news indeed! Thanks, Sean, for forwarding them, and
> congratulations to Robert Ward!
>
> An obviously dramatical witnessed CM fall, that's really the stuff dreams
> are made on!
>
> Looking forward to getting more info, details, pics, reports etc.,
>
> best regards,
> Matthias
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean T. Murray" <stm at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:31 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New California meteorite found!
>
>
>> It is an honor to announce that, at 11:00 am local, Robert Ward was the
>> first to recover a stone from the April 22, 2012, California fireball --
>> which was evidently generated by a large, carbonaceous CM mass. Robert is
>> now responsible for the initial recovery of two-out-of-three-ever
>> California witnessed falls, including Red Canyon Lake.
>>
>> Congratulations, to Robert!
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>> __________ Hinweis von ESET Smart Security, Signaturdatenbank-Version 7083
>>
>> (20120424) __________
>>
>> E-Mail wurde gepr?ft mit ESET Smart Security.
>>
>> http://www.eset.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 17
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:27:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: IRON SKY <info at iron-sky.org>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Test
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Message-ID:
> <83723684.594581335302834861.JavaMail.root at mail14.homesteadmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> Testing
>
>
> IRON SKY METEORITES
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:51:49 -0400
> From: "Stuart McDaniel" <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big
> Was It?
> To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>, "Meteorite Mailing
> List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID: <7FC081BAD9D54A6CB2DB00E1EA9FC2F1 at StuartMcDaniel>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> So my question is.....why didn't anyone detect this obviously huge meteoroid
> in space before entry?
>
>
>
>
> *****************************
> Stuart McDaniel
> Lawndale, NC
> Secr.,
> Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
>
> IMCA #9052
> Sirius Meteorites
>
> Node35 - Sentinel All Sky
>
> http://spacerocks.weebly.com
>
> *********************************
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Baalke
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 4:40 PM
> To: Meteorite Mailing List
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
>
>
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-114
>
> Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> April 24, 2012
>
> A bright ball of light traveling east to west was seen over the skies of
> central/northern California Sunday morning, April 22. The former space
> rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth's atmosphere around 8 a.m. PDT.
> Reports of the fireball have come in from as far north as Sacramento,
> Calif. and as far east as North Las Vegas, Nev.
>
> Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space
> Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., estimates the object was about the
> size of a minivan, weighed in at around 154,300 pounds (70 metric tons)
> and at the time of disintegration released energy equivalent to a
> 5-kiloton explosion.
>
> "Most meteors you see in the night's sky are the size of tiny stones or
> even grains of sand and their trail lasts all of a second or two," said
> Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet
> Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Fireballs you can see
> relatively easily in the daytime and are many times that size - anywhere
> from a baseball-sized object to something as big as a minivan."
>
> Elizabeth Silber of the Meteor Group at the Western University of
> Canada, Ontario, estimates the location of its explosion in the upper
> atmosphere above California's Central Valley.
>
> Eyewitnesses of this fireball join a relatively exclusive club. "An
> event of this size might happen about once a year," said Yeomans. "But
> most of them occur over the ocean or an uninhabited area, so getting to
> see one is something special."
>
> NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing
> close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The
> Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard,"
> discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and establishes
> their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our
> planet. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's
> Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the
> California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
> More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at:
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch .
>
> DC Agle 818-393-9011
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> agle at jpl.nasa.gov
>
> 2012-114
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 19
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:58:07 -0700
> From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big
> Was It?
> To: "Stuart McDaniel" <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com>
> Cc: Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>, Meteorite Mailing List
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <472dc6f4338cf4de14f4ebb0bb173822.squirrel at webmail.lpl.arizona.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Stuart:
>
> Have you ever watched any old war movies? Fighter pilots attack from the
> direction of the Sun. This was a daytime fireball and so probably came in
> from the sunward side, so not easy to detect.
>
> Larry
>
>> So my question is.....why didn't anyone detect this obviously huge
>> meteoroid
>> in space before entry?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *****************************
>> Stuart McDaniel
>> Lawndale, NC
>> Secr.,
>> Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
>>
>> IMCA #9052
>> Sirius Meteorites
>>
>> Node35 - Sentinel All Sky
>>
>> http://spacerocks.weebly.com
>>
>> *********************************
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ron Baalke
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 4:40 PM
>> To: Meteorite Mailing List
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
>>
>>
>> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-114
>>
>> Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
>> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
>> April 24, 2012
>>
>> A bright ball of light traveling east to west was seen over the skies of
>> central/northern California Sunday morning, April 22. The former space
>> rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth's atmosphere around 8 a.m. PDT.
>> Reports of the fireball have come in from as far north as Sacramento,
>> Calif. and as far east as North Las Vegas, Nev.
>>
>> Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space
>> Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., estimates the object was about the
>> size of a minivan, weighed in at around 154,300 pounds (70 metric tons)
>> and at the time of disintegration released energy equivalent to a
>> 5-kiloton explosion.
>>
>> "Most meteors you see in the night's sky are the size of tiny stones or
>> even grains of sand and their trail lasts all of a second or two," said
>> Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet
>> Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Fireballs you can see
>> relatively easily in the daytime and are many times that size - anywhere
>> from a baseball-sized object to something as big as a minivan."
>>
>> Elizabeth Silber of the Meteor Group at the Western University of
>> Canada, Ontario, estimates the location of its explosion in the upper
>> atmosphere above California's Central Valley.
>>
>> Eyewitnesses of this fireball join a relatively exclusive club. "An
>> event of this size might happen about once a year," said Yeomans. "But
>> most of them occur over the ocean or an uninhabited area, so getting to
>> see one is something special."
>>
>> NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing
>> close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The
>> Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard,"
>> discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and establishes
>> their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our
>> planet. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's
>> Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the
>> California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
>> More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at:
>> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch .
>>
>> DC Agle 818-393-9011
>> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
>> agle at jpl.nasa.gov
>>
>> 2012-114
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 20
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:01:42 -0700
> From: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Blind-sided
> To: "Stuart McDaniel" <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com>, "Ron Baalke"
> <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>, "Meteorite Mailing List"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID:
> <7C640E28081AEE4B952F008D1E913F17052A7053 at 0461-its-exmb04.us.saic.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> Less than 30 degrees elongation from the sun -- not an area of the
> sky that surveys are looking... --Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
> McDaniel
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 2:52 PM
> To: Ron Baalke; Meteorite Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big
> WasIt?
>
> So my question is.....why didn't anyone detect this obviously huge
> meteoroid in space before entry?
>
>
>
>
> *****************************
> Stuart McDaniel
> Lawndale, NC
> Secr.,
> Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
>
> IMCA #9052
> Sirius Meteorites
>
> Node35 - Sentinel All Sky
>
> http://spacerocks.weebly.com
>
> *********************************
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Baalke
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 4:40 PM
> To: Meteorite Mailing List
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was
> It?
>
>
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-114
>
> Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> April 24, 2012
>
> A bright ball of light traveling east to west was seen over the skies of
> central/northern California Sunday morning, April 22. The former space
> rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth's atmosphere around 8 a.m. PDT.
> Reports of the fireball have come in from as far north as Sacramento,
> Calif. and as far east as North Las Vegas, Nev.
>
> Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space
> Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., estimates the object was about the
> size of a minivan, weighed in at around 154,300 pounds (70 metric tons)
> and at the time of disintegration released energy equivalent to a
> 5-kiloton explosion.
>
> "Most meteors you see in the night's sky are the size of tiny stones or
> even grains of sand and their trail lasts all of a second or two," said
> Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet
> Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Fireballs you can see
> relatively easily in the daytime and are many times that size - anywhere
> from a baseball-sized object to something as big as a minivan."
>
> Elizabeth Silber of the Meteor Group at the Western University of
> Canada, Ontario, estimates the location of its explosion in the upper
> atmosphere above California's Central Valley.
>
> Eyewitnesses of this fireball join a relatively exclusive club. "An
> event of this size might happen about once a year," said Yeomans. "But
> most of them occur over the ocean or an uninhabited area, so getting to
> see one is something special."
>
> NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing
> close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The
> Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard,"
> discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and establishes
> their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our
> planet. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's
> Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the
> California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
> More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at:
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch .
>
> DC Agle 818-393-9011
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> agle at jpl.nasa.gov
>
> 2012-114
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:02:38 -0400
> From: "Stuart McDaniel" <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big
> Was It?
> To: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
> Cc: Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>, Meteorite Mailing List
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Message-ID: <56999853A29346129DDA6A7430FD6ABA at StuartMcDaniel>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> OK, makes sense. But one being that close to Earth would not have been
> detected prior?
>
>
> *****************************
> Stuart McDaniel
> Lawndale, NC
> Secr.,
> Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
>
> IMCA #9052
> Sirius Meteorites
>
> Node35 - Sentinel All Sky
>
> http://spacerocks.weebly.com
>
> *********************************
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:58 PM
> To: Stuart McDaniel
> Cc: Ron Baalke ; Meteorite Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was
> It?
>
> Stuart:
>
> Have you ever watched any old war movies? Fighter pilots attack from the
> direction of the Sun. This was a daytime fireball and so probably came in
> from the sunward side, so not easy to detect.
>
> Larry
>
>> So my question is.....why didn't anyone detect this obviously huge
>> meteoroid
>> in space before entry?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *****************************
>> Stuart McDaniel
>> Lawndale, NC
>> Secr.,
>> Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
>>
>> IMCA #9052
>> Sirius Meteorites
>>
>> Node35 - Sentinel All Sky
>>
>> http://spacerocks.weebly.com
>>
>> *********************************
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ron Baalke
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 4:40 PM
>> To: Meteorite Mailing List
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
>>
>>
>> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-114
>>
>> Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?
>> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
>> April 24, 2012
>>
>> A bright ball of light traveling east to west was seen over the skies of
>> central/northern California Sunday morning, April 22. The former space
>> rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth's atmosphere around 8 a.m. PDT.
>> Reports of the fireball have come in from as far north as Sacramento,
>> Calif. and as far east as North Las Vegas, Nev.
>>
>> Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space
>> Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., estimates the object was about the
>> size of a minivan, weighed in at around 154,300 pounds (70 metric tons)
>> and at the time of disintegration released energy equivalent to a
>> 5-kiloton explosion.
>>
>> "Most meteors you see in the night's sky are the size of tiny stones or
>> even grains of sand and their trail lasts all of a second or two," said
>> Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet
>> Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Fireballs you can see
>> relatively easily in the daytime and are many times that size - anywhere
>> from a baseball-sized object to something as big as a minivan."
>>
>> Elizabeth Silber of the Meteor Group at the Western University of
>> Canada, Ontario, estimates the location of its explosion in the upper
>> atmosphere above California's Central Valley.
>>
>> Eyewitnesses of this fireball join a relatively exclusive club. "An
>> event of this size might happen about once a year," said Yeomans. "But
>> most of them occur over the ocean or an uninhabited area, so getting to
>> see one is something special."
>>
>> NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing
>> close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The
>> Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard,"
>> discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and establishes
>> their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our
>> planet. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's
>> Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the
>> California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
>> More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at:
>> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch .
>>
>> DC Agle 818-393-9011
>> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
>> agle at jpl.nasa.gov
>>
>> 2012-114
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
>
> End of Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 106, Issue 32
> ***********************************************
>
Received on Tue 24 Apr 2012 07:59:18 PM PDT