Date: Mon, 15 Feb 93 05:25:01 From: Space Digest maintainer Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest V16 #186 To: Space Digest Readers Precedence: bulk Space Digest Mon, 15 Feb 93 Volume 16 : Issue 186 Today's Topics: Price for meteorites Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu", and (un)subscription requests of the form "Subscribe Space " to one of these addresses: listserv@uga (BITNET), rice::boyle (SPAN/NSInet), utadnx::utspan::rice::boyle (THENET), or space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu (Internet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15 Feb 1993 08:50:39 GMT From: Joe Dellinger Subject: Price for meteorites Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro [Sorry if you see this twice. I'm posting through an old account in CA because Hawaii seems to have become a netnews black hole. Postings come in but they don't get out!] In article <1993Feb11.231801.14408@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes: |> What is the normal price for meteorites? Well, when I was at Meteor Crater, Arizona, several years ago you could buy a fragment from it for about a dollar. This would make sense since they said there were small bits of it lying all about the landscape thereabouts.(Did I get taken?) Meteor Crater is a very short side trip off Interstate 40. There's another Meteor Crater in West Texas near Odessa, just off Interstate 20. That one's not much of a tourist attraction.... just a 100-yard across disturbed area. Rather severely asthetically damaged by the trenches dug in it by curious geologists who didn't bother to clean up after themselves, unfortunately. Still worth a visit if you're in the area, if only to see oil pumpers going right next to a meteor crater! And is there any reason for major interstate highways to pass SO close to meteor craters? /\ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________ / \ / \ /Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, Honolulu\/\/\.-.-....__ ___/ \/ \/Joe Dellinger, Internet: joe@montebello.soest.hawaii.edu\/\.-.__ /\ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________ / \ / \ /Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, Honolulu\/\/\.-.-....__ ___/ \/ \/Joe Dellinger, Internet: joe@montebello.soest.hawaii.edu\/\.-.__ ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 16 : Issue 186 ------------------------------