[meteorite-list] Ries Impactite - eBay auctions! - Tuscon
From: Mark Bostick <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:24 2004 Message-ID: <OE17Y6biIn19tQUWtKK0000ac8d_at_hotmail.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1C216.45C51EE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, Finally have things back in order and settled from my little trip. = Thank you to everyone for your understanding while I was gone. =20 I enjoyed meeting everyone at this years Tuscon show. It was nice to = see Art Jones, Ron Hartman, Michael Cottingham, Michael Blood and some = of the others I had not meet before. =20 I was amazed at the number of Colorado presence. I think we should all = be carefull that the Comets aren't trying to take everything over. =20 Once again I would like to thank everyone that was involved in the = different events. Good Food, Good People, Good Drinks and meteorites. = What more do you need? =20 I also am over 200 eBay auctions again including many meteorites, = inluding books and impactite. Here is a link to what I have titled "1 = of Kind Tuscon Meteorite Scale! READ!"...... http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D1079455245 I also brought back from Tuscon some Ries Impactite slices I had Ron = Hartman cut for me. As always he did a great job.=20 Ries Suevite Breccia . About 14.7 million years old an the impact of a = large meteorite or comet nucleus with the Earth's surface at Nordlinger = Ries, Germany, Czechoslovakia in the Moldau Valley crated a crater and = this suevite breccia. This is the impact that also created the gem green = moldavite tektites. In the Suevite you can see looks of glass bombs = (black), crystalline fragments (speckled) and fragments of Malmain = limestone (light grey). Most of the fragments embedded in suevite were = changed by the influence of heat. The origin of the Ries site was a = debate for hundreds of years, untill on July 27th 1960 Prof. Shoemaker = came to the Ries site to search for coesite, an impact created mineral. = In a few days the samples he collected tested positive.=20 Slices are $.10 a gram...all sizes available....e-mail off list if = interested.. Thanks again, Mark Bostick "The Big Collector" ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1C216.45C51EE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Finally have things back in order and = settled from=20 my little trip. Thank you to everyone for your understanding while = I was=20 gone. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I enjoyed meeting everyone at = this years=20 Tuscon show. It was nice to see Art Jones, Ron Hartman, Michael=20 Cottingham, Michael Blood and some of the others I had not meet = before. =20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I was amazed at the number of Colorado=20 presence. I think we should all be carefull that the Comets aren't = trying=20 to take everything over. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Once again I would like to thank = everyone that was=20 involved in the different events. Good Food, Good People, Good = Drinks and=20 meteorites. What more do you need? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I also am over 200 eBay auctions again = including=20 many meteorites, inluding books and impactite. Here is a link to = what I=20 have titled "<FONT size=3D2>1 of Kind Tuscon Meteorite Scale!=20 READ!"......</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A=20 href=3D"http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D1079= 455245"><FONT=20 face=3D"Courier = New">http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D1079455= 245</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I also brought back from = Tuscon some Ries=20 Impactite slices I had Ron Hartman cut for me. As always he = did a=20 great job. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ries Suevite Breccia . About 14.7 million years old an the impact = of a=20 large meteorite or comet nucleus with the Earth=92s surface at = Nordlinger Ries,=20 Germany, Czechoslovakia in the Moldau Valley crated a crater and this = suevite=20 breccia. This is the impact that also created the gem green moldavite = tektites.=20 <FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>In the Suevite you can see looks of glass = bombs (black),=20 crystalline fragments (speckled) and fragments of Malmain limestone = (light=20 grey). Most of the fragments embedded in suevite were changed by the = influence=20 of heat. The origin of the Ries site was a debate for hundreds of years, = untill=20 on July 27th 1960 Prof. Shoemaker came to the Ries site to search for = coesite,=20 an impact created mineral. In a few days the samples he collected tested = positive. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Slices are $.10 a gram...all sizes=20 available....e-mail off list if interested..</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks again, Mark Bostick "The Big=20 Collector"</P></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1C216.45C51EE0-- Received on Sat 02 Mar 2002 07:15:45 PM PST |
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