Why the conversation about fossil commerce needs to start over from scratch

Why the conversation about fossil commerce needs to start over from scratch
Although this is about fossil commerce, meteorite commerce shares

many of the same concerns.



Don't Fed On Me: What the AAPS Keeps Getting Wrong ... and Why the

Conversation about Fossil Commerce Needs to Start over from Scratch
https://fossilnews.org/online-content/dont-fed-on-me/

Fossil News, The Journal of Avocational Paleontology, Online Content
https://fossilnews.org/online-content/

Yours,

Paul H.

Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks

Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks
Associated Press, December 16, 2020

https://apnews.com/article/china-capsule-moon-rocks-da510a5fd9a97505296ddbdb5749c393

Yours,

Paul H.

Drone footage of Arecibo Observatory's catastrophic collapse

Drone footage of Arecibo Observatory's catastrophic collapse

Must have been an exciting few minutes for the drone pilot...
https://players.brightcove.net/679256133001/EkLWnGuil_default/index.html?videoId=6213883083001

Gut-Wrenching Photos Show Damage at Arecibo Observatory
Following Collapse. George Dvorsky, Gizmodo, December 2, 2020
https://gizmodo.com/gut-wrenching-photos-show-damage-at-arecibo-observatory-1845790190

See unreal drone footage of Arecibo Observatory's catastrophic collapse
A drone was filming above the site when the final disaster struck, CNET
https://www.cnet.com/news/arecibo-observatory-catastrophic-collapse-captured-in-unreal-drone-footage/

Yours,

Paul H.

Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses

Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses
By Danica Coto, Associated Press, December 1, 2020

https://apnews.com/article/technology-arecibo-observatory-puerto-rico-science--0da6abb251f455977bf0c752348e712e

Yours,

Paul H.

Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is to be decommissioned

Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is to be decommissioned

Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is lost
By Meghan Bartels, SpaceCom, November 2020
https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-radio-telescope-to-be-destroyed

Planetary Society Reacts to Loss of Arecibo Observatory Radio Telescope
By Jason Davis, Planetary Society, November 24, 2020
https://www.planetary.org/articles/planetary-society-arecibo-reaction

Yours,

Paul H.

Ancient zircons recovered from Martian meteorite

Ancient zircons recovered from Martian meteorite

Ancient zircon minerals from Mars reveal the elusive internal structure of the red planet, 

University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, November 17, 2020
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201117113057.htm

Big Think article by Robby Berman, November 19, 2020
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/mars-zircon

The paper is:

Maria M. Costa, Ninna K. Jensen, Laura C. Bouvier, James N. Connelly, Takashi Mikouchi, Matthew S. A. Horstwood, Jussi-Petteri Suuronen, Frédéric Moynier, Zhengbin Deng, Arnaud Agranier, Laure A. J. Martin, Tim E. Johnson, Alexander A. Nemchin, Martin Bizzarro. 

The internal structure and geodynamics of Mars inferred from a 4.2-Gyr zircon record. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020;
202016326 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016326117
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/11/10/2016326117

Yours,

Paul H.

Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is to be decommissioned

Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is to be decommissioned

Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is lost
By Meghan Bartels, SpaceCom, November 2020
https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-radio-telescope-to-be-destroyed

Planetary Society Reacts to Loss of Arecibo Observatory Radio Telescope
By Jason Davis, Planetary Society, November 24, 2020
https://www.planetary.org/articles/planetary-society-arecibo-reaction

Yours,

Paul H.

Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch Black After All

Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch Black After All

Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR News, November 18, 2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936219170/scientists-discover-outer-space-isnt-pitch-black-after-all

The paper is:
Lauer, T.R., Postman, M., Weaver, H.A., Spencer, J.R., Stern, S.A., Buie, M.W., Durda, D.D., Lisse, C.M., Poppe,A.R., Binzel, R.P. and Britt, D.T., 2020. New Horizons

Observations of the Cosmic Optical Background. arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03052.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03052

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.03052

Yours,

Paul H.

Houston Gem and Mineral Society's (Virtual) Annual Show Tomorrow

Houston Gem and Mineral Society's (Virtual) Annual Show Tomorrow

Saturday November 14 is the start of HGMS's annual show. This year, due to the pandemic, their annual show has gone virtual. Those who want to who want to attended click the link below and participate in the virtual show. Please check it out and tell your friends.
https://mailchi.mp/hgms/hgms-annual-show-is-virtual-for-2020-note-the-new-date-2891638

https://hgms.org/2020-virtual-annual-show/

Yours,

Paul H

What Is This Thing? Mystery Rock or Meteorwrong?

What Is This Thing? Mystery Rock or Meteorwrong?

On Reddit, there is an item (rock?) labeled "AN/TCS-62" that many people are guessing is either a meteorite or Moon rock at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/jr62jh/my_grandpa_gave_this_to_me_before_he_died_does/

Although I disagree with either identification, the members of this list might have fun making their guesses as to what this mystery specimen is.

Have fun,

Paul H.

Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope

Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope

Arecibo Observatory suffers more damage as second cable fails It's the second cable snap for Arecibo in just three months.
By Meghan Bartels, SpaeCom, November 9, 2020
https://www.space.com/arecibo-telescope-suffers-more-damage-cable-failure

Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope
By Daniel Clery, Science News, November 9, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/second-cable-breaks-puerto-rico-s-arecibo-telescope

Yours,

Paul H.

The Hamburg, Michigan H4 chondrite

The Hamburg, Michigan H4 chondrite

Scientists: 2018 Michigan meteorite filled with organic compounds., Dan Robitzski, Futurism
https://futurism.com/the-byte/pristine-meteorite-organic-compounds

The open acccess paper is:
Heck, P.R., Greer, J., and others, 2020. The fall, recovery, classification, and initial characterization
of the Hamburg, Michigan H4 chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Early View.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.13584

Yours,

Paul H.

NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid

NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid
https://observer.com/2020/10/nasa-discover-asteroid-pysche-metal-10-quadrillion/

The open access paper is:
Becker, T.M., Cunningham, N., and others, 2020.
HST UV Observations of Asteroid (16) Psyche.
The Planetary Science Journal. vol. 1, no. 3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abb67e

Yours,

Paul H.

Clovis range predates and postdates hypothetical Younger Dryas Event

Clovis range predates and postdates hypothetical Younger Dryas Event

Clovis people: Narrow window of tool-making
Tools made by some of North America's earliest
inhabitants were made only during a 300-year period
Texas A&M University, PhysOrg, October 23, 2020
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201023123104.htm

Clovis range is ~13,050 to 12,750 cal yr B.P.
according to Figure 2 of below paper. Thus, this
interpretation has Clovis culture unaffected by
whatever happened at the Younger Dryas Boundary.

The Open Access paper is:
Michael R. Waters, Thomas W. Stafford, David L.
Carlson. The age of Clovis—13,050 to 12,750 cal yr
B.P.. Science Advances, 2020; 6 (43): eaaz0455
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/43/eaaz0455

Yours,
Paul H.

Quadrantid meteor shower will peak 03/04 January, Friday night/Saturday morning 03JAN2020

 Quadrantid meteor shower will peak 03/04 January, Friday night/Saturday morning

Quadrantid meteor shower will peak tomorrow

night (03/04 January, Friday night/Saturday morning)!

Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait, January 2, 2020

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/fireworks-for-the-new-year-the-quadrantid-meteor-shower-peaks-tomorrow

By the way, really weird stuff is also happening in Colorado skies.

Mysterious drones flying nighttime patterns over

northeast Colorado leave local law enforcement stumped

Phillips County sheriff says there are at least 17 of

the aircraft that fly between 7 and 10 p.m. nightly

By Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, December 23, 2019

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/23/drones-mystery-colorado/

‘It’s Creepy’: Unexplained Drones Are Swarming by

Night Over Colorado. Sheriffs in western Nebraska

and eastern Colorado say they don’t know who’s

flying the drones — or why. The F.A.A. is investigating.

Mitch Smith, New York Times, January 1, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/drones-FAA-colorado-nebraska.html

Mysterious swarms of giant drones have started to

appear in the Colorado and Nebraska night sky,

and nobody knows where they're coming from

Irene Jiang, Business Insider, December 30, 2019

https://www.businessinsider.com/giant-drone-swarm-mystery-in-colorado-nebraska-skies-2019-12

Yours,

Paul.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)