[meteorite-list] Lunar eclipse recap

From: Matson, Rob D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:54:05 +0000
Message-ID: <4A4FA25E4DFE584AA580F4F069F9B4401CD57250_at_EMP-EXMR104.corp.leidos.com>

Hi Daniel,

The show was great from southern California. Even more impressive to me
than the proximity of Mars was how close Spica was to the Moon -- less
than 2 degrees to the right. So close, in fact, that it was hard to
see Spica until the eclipse was well underway. Once the eclipse was
total, I could also see the dim, 5.2-magnitude star HIP 66098 (76 Virginis)
only 0.5 degrees from the upper limb of the Moon.

--Rob

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Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New ebay listings with fake Moon/ Mars displays

Hello All,

For those lucky enough to be able to see it, that Lunar eclipse last night was fantastic, plus the added bonus of a very bright Mars nearby made even more visible by the darkened sky...WOW!

I have an alert on a couple new ebay listings. Some "steelhorse1994"
fake displays from 2011-2012 are being resold by someone. Unfortunately, he sold well over a 1000 of these and they will keep cropping up. It's too bad ebay did not have the spine to retroactively alert everyone he sold to. I dropped the seller a note but heard nothing back and the listings are still active at the time of this writing. So, I also reported it to ebay. Here are the links to the listings:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MOON-ROCK-Lunar-Meteorite-NWA-4881-/261452325481?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdfc5e269

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARS-ROCK-A-Pieace-of-The-Mars-Meteorite-NWA-4925-/261452342487?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdfc624d7

Best regards,
Daniel

Daniel Noyes
Genuine Moon & Mars Meteorite Rocks
info at moonmarsrocks.com
www.moonmarsrocks.com
Received on Tue 15 Apr 2014 01:54:05 PM PDT