12 Pound Lunar Meteorite, NWA 11789, For Sale 13OCT2018

12 Pound Lunar Meteorite, NWA 11789, For Sale

For Sale! Certified Lunar Meteorite — Weight 12 Pounds
— Mileage 250,000, NPR, Space, October 11, 2018
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/11/656603665/for-sale-certified-lunar-meteorite-weight-12-lbs-mileage-250k

Yours,

Paul H.

Japanese Meteorites and Meteors 13OCT2018

 Japanese Meteorites and Meteors

Big rock found by Gifu man may be 2nd piece of known meteorite

By Ken Murota, The Asahi Shimbum, April 20, 2018

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201804200010.html

Artificial meteor shower planned for Japan in 2019

David Szondy, New Atlas, November 22nd, 2017

https://newatlas.com/sky-canvas-artificial-meteor-shower-japan/52295/

Yours,

Paul H.

Did Algae Cause The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction? 10OCT2018

Did Algae Cause The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction?

Kornei, K. (2018), Tiny algae may have prompted
a mass extinction, Eos, 99,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO102539
Published on 11 July 2018.

https://eos.org/articles/tiny-algae-may-have-prompted-a-mass-extinction

https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/eos0918.pdf?x69145

https://eos.org/current-issues

The paper is;

Shen, J., Pearson, A., Henkes, G.A., Zhang, Y.G.,
Chen, K., Li, D., Wankel, S.D., Finney, S.C. and
Shen, Y., 2018. Improved efficiency of the
biological pump as a trigger for the Late
Ordovician glaciation. Nature Geoscience, 11(7), p.510.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0141-5

Yours,

Paul H.

Manicouagan Impact Structure - Online PDF Files 22SEP2018

Manicouagan Impact Structure - Online PDF Files

Hi,

Below are some online PDF files about the Manicouagan
impact structure area.

Murtaugh, J.G., 1976. Manicouagan impact structure area.
Ministère des richesses naturelles, Direction générale des
mines, Exploration géologique.
http://gq.mines.gouv.qc.ca/documents/EXAMINE/DPV432/DPV432.pdf

Jean-Philippe L. Messier, 2003, Projet de Reserve de la
biosphere Manicouagan - Monts Groulx (Uapashke)
http://www.bape.gouv.qc.ca/sections/mandats/groulx-levasseur/documents/DB10.pdf

Geological maps of the Manicouagan Impact Structure Area
http://gq.mines.gouv.qc.ca/documents/EXAMINE/CGSIGEOM22N/CGSIGEOM22NPLAN_1-16.pdf


Best wishes,

Paul H.

Busy Week in Near Earth Asteroid Traffic 17SEP2018

Busy Week in Near Earth Asteroid Traffic

Several near-Earth asteroids buzz by our neighborhood
in the same week, Eric Mac, Cnet, September 10, 2018
https://www.cnet.com/news/several-near-earth-asteroids-buzz-by-our-neighborhood-in-the-same-week/


An older article is:

America Isn't Ready to Handle a Catastrophic Asteroid
Impact, New Report Warns by Ryan F. Mandelbaum< Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/america-isnt-ready-to-handle-a-catastrophic-asteroid-im-1827014709


Yours,

Paul H.

Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks 17SEP2018

Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks

Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to
catch space rocks By Joshua Rapp, Science, Aug. 29, 2018
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/asteroid-miners-could-use-earth-s-atmosphere-catch-space-rocks

I love the caption to the article's illustration.

" Engineers have come up with a plan to purposefully
steer asteroids into Earth’s atmosphere and mine them
for resources in orbit. What could possibly go wrong?"

Yours,

Paul H.

Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan" 10SEP2018

Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan"

The story of the, at first, successful forgery of
Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan" is quite
interesting. Below, there are an interesting lecture
about, which is initially overly academic, and an
open access book to read about the forgery. It is
interesting how the expectation of a "great discovery"
might have led expert to overlook some "red flags"
about its authenticity.

Some articles are:

A Very Rare Book

The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise.
By Nicholas Schmidl, The New Yorker, December 13, 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/a-very-rare-book

How a Book Thief Forged a Rare Edition of Galileo’s Scientific
Work, and Almost Pulled it Off in Books | February 11th, 2014
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/how-a-book-thief-forged-a-rare-edition-of-galileos-scientific-work-and-almost-pulled-it-off.html

Unmasking a Galileo Forgery
Albert Van Helden, First Published July 25, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828614537950

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021828614537950



An online lecture mostly about this forgery,

"Fake, Facsimile, Print: The Techniques and Technologies
of Textual Reproduction, 1450 To The Future.
CAS MillerComm 2015 Nick Wilding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqT_73XdaSY


The open-access book is:

A Galileo Forgery: Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius
Horst Bredekamp,Irene Brückle & Paul Needham. Vol. iii of
Galileo’s O, edited by & Horst Bredekamp (Walter de Gruyter,
Berlin, 2014). Pp. 102. ISBN 978-3-11-035464-5.
https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/416084

https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/416084?format=EBOK


Yours,

Paul H.

UNIRIO Students Collecting Photos to Remember Brazil’s Destroyed National Museum 08SEP2018

 UNIRIO Students Collecting Photos to Remember Brazil’s Destroyed National Museum

The students at UNIRIO, the Federal University of

the State of Rio de Janeiro are collecting visitor's

photos of Brazil's Museu Nacional in order to

remember something of what has been lost.

Students Are Collecting Photos to Remember Brazil’s

Destroyed National Museum. After a fire tore through

the institution, visitors’ images have become an

informal archive of its collections.

by  Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura, September 4, 2018

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/students-collecting-photos-of-museu-nacional

Yours,

Paul H.

Brazil National Museum Completely Gutted by Fire 04SEP2018

Brazil National Museum Completely Gutted by Fire
Inferno at Brazil's National Museum causes 'irreparable'
damage and grief By Claudia Dominguez, Flora Charner
and Holly Yan, CNN, September 3, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/02/americas/brazil-national-museum-fire-intl/index.html

Brazil National Museum fire: Key treasures at risk, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45395774

Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45398084


Among the 20 million items presumed lost are a Maxakalisaurus
skeleton, 11,500 year-old Luzia remains, Pompeii fresco, and
countless Pre-Columbian artifacts. The museum contains a
meteorite collection, which includes the Bendegó Meteorite.

Luzia Woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzia_Woman

Bendegó Meteorite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendegó_meteorite

https://meteoritosbrasileiros.webs.com/bendego1.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Platinum Anomalies Found Associated with Volcanic Events 02SEP2018

 Platinum Anomalies Found Associated with Volcanic Events

Platinum anomalies have been associated with high-magnitude

late Holocene volcanic events. Go see:

Platinum is key in ancient volcanic related climate change

University of Cincinnati, July 31, 2018

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180731092053.htm

Tankersley, K.B., Dunning, N.P., Owen, L.A., Huff, W.D.,

Park, J.H., Kim, C., Lentz, D.L. and Sparks-Stokes, D., 2018.

Positive Platinum anomalies at three late Holocene high

magnitude volcanic events in Western Hemisphere

sediments. Scientific reports, 8(1), number. 11298.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29741-8

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326633921_Positive_Platinum_anomalies_at_three_late_Holocene_high_magnitude_volcanic_events_in_Western_Hemisphere_sediments

"Pt anomalies in sediments over a broad geographic area

indicate distinctive time-correlative atmospheric deposition

rates of platinum-rich volcanic ash."

 a related paper:

Soyol-Erdene, T.O., Huh, Y., Hong, S. and Hur, S.D., 2011.

A 50-year record of platinum, iridium, and rhodium in

Antarctic snow: volcanic and anthropogenic sources.

Environmental science & technology, 45(14), pp. 5929-5935.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es2005732

Yours,

Paul H.

When Is Science Newsworthy? 29AUG2018

 When Is Science Newsworthy?

The below discussion about what science reporters / writers

consider to be "newsworthy" and gets their attention is both

interesting and revealing.

When Is Science Newsworthy?

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Published on May 21, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KnJXJZGpw

Two papers mentioned in this discussion are:

Sumner, P., Vivian-Griffiths, S., Boivin, J., Williams,

A., Bott, L., Adams, R., Venetis, C.A., Whelan, L.,

Hughes, B. and Chambers, C.D., 2016. Exaggerations

and caveats in press releases and health-related

science news. PloS one, 11(12), p.e0168217.

Abstract -

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0168217

PDF file -

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/562a/1075e1a0f4d6476ad80bee0a047cdb9fbd57.pdf

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/74224673.pdf

Berger, J., 2011. Arousal increases social transmission

of information. Psychological science, 22(7), pp.891-893.

Abstract - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797611413294

PDF file - https://jonahberger.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Arousal2.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Why Over 80% of All Life on Earth Was Wiped Out 250 Million Years Ago 28AUG2018

 Why Over 80% of All Life on Earth Was Wiped Out 250 Million Years Ago

Here's Why Over 80% of All Life on Earth Was Wiped

Out 250 Million Years Ago. A chain reaction of death.

https://www.sciencealert.com/end-permian-triassic-extinction-event-volcano-eruption-lithospheric-halogens

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180827121348.htm

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-geologists-uncover-clues-largest-mass.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uota-gun082418.php

the paper is:

Michael W. Broadley, Peter H. Barry, Chris J. Ballentine,

Lawrence A. Taylor and Ray Burgess, 2018, End-Permian

extinction amplified by plume-induced release of recycled

lithospheric volatiles. Nature Geoscience

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0215-4

Yours,

Paul H.

Asteroid Impact Likely Created the Oldest Felsic Rocks on Earth 16AUG2018

Asteroid Impact Likely Created the Oldest Felsic Rocks on Earth

Meteorite Bombardment Likely Created the Oldest
Rocks on Earth By Meghan Bartels, Space.com
Senior Writer | August 13, 2018 04:54pm ET
https://www.space.com/41468-meteorite-bombardment-created-oldest-earth-rocks.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/gc-mbl081018.php


Johnson, T.E., Gardiner, N.J., Miljković, K., Spencer,
C.J., Kirkland, C.L., Bland, P.A. and Smithies, H., 2018.
An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known
evolved rocks. Nature Geoscience.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0206-5

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0206-5


Yours,

Paul H.

Near-Earth Supernovas and Mass extinctions ( Lecture video) 16AUG2018

Near-Earth Supernovas and Mass extinctions ( Lecture video)

Near-Earth Supernova Explosions
(When Stars Attack! ) In Search of
Near-Earth Supernova Explosions
Brian Fields, KU Physics & Astronomy
Public Talks, Published on Apr 20, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND6u4Rnq0g0


Related papers are:

Breitschwerdt, D., Feige, J., Schulreich, M.M.,
de Avillez, M.A., Dettbarn, C. and Fuchs, B.,
2016. The locations of recent supernovae
near the Sun from modelling 60 Fe transport.
Nature, 532(7597), p. 73-78.
https://www.earth.northwestern.edu/people/seth/351/breitschwerdt.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17424


Fields, B.D. and Ellis, J., 1999. On deep-ocean
60Fe as a fossil of a near-earth supernova.
New Astronomy, 4(6), pp. 419-430.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9811457.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107699000342


Fry, B.J., Fields, B.D. and Ellis, J.R., 2015.
Astrophysical shrapnel: Discriminating among
near-earth stellar explosion sources of live
radioactive isotopes. The Astrophysical Journal,
800(1), 17 pp.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.4310.pdf

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/71/meta


Wallner, A., Feige, J., Kinoshita, N., Paul, M., Fifield,
L.K., Golser, R., Honda, M., Linnemann, U., Matsuzaki,
H., Merchel, S. and Rugel, G., 2016. Recent near-
Earth supernovae probed by global deposition of
interstellar radioactive 60 Fe. Nature, 532(7597),
pp. 69-72.


Yours,

Paul H.

Are we prepared for an asteroid headed straight to Earth? 09AUG2018

 Are we prepared for an asteroid headed straight to Earth?

Cartier, K. M. S. (2018), Are we prepared for an asteroid headed

straight to Earth?, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO101939.

Published on 29 June 2018.

https://eos.org/articles/are-we-prepared-for-an-asteroid-headed-straight-to-earth

https://eos.org/scientific-disciplines/planetary-science

Yours,

Paul H.

Russian meteorite yields new mineral, uakitite 07AUG2018

 Russian meteorite yields new mineral, uakitite

Russian gold prospectors find meteorite containing

a new mineral that had never before been seen on Earth.

The mineral came from the Uakit meteorite, named for the

Russian location where it was found. The new mineral is

named uakitite and announced at the 81st Annual

Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2018 (LPI Contrib. No. 2067)

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2018/pdf/6252.pdf

and

Halenius, U., Hatert, F., Pasero, M. and Mills, S.J., 2018.

New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved

in 2018. Mineralogical Magazine, 82(3), pp. 779-785.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mineralogical-magazine/article/new-minerals-and-nomenclature-modifications-approved-in-2018/D1A5CC9EA8E4BD2F831F44469825FF44

Uakitite - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uakitite

That Newfound Mineral Isn't Harder Than Diamond —

But It Is from Space By Kimberly Hickok, LiveScience

August 3, 2018

https://www.livescience.com/63247-uakit-meteorite-new-mineral.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor Made 2.1 Kiloton Explosion Over Air Force Space Command Base Thule, Greenland 04AUG2018

 Meteor Made 2.1 Kiloton Explosion Over Air Force Space Command Base Thule, Greenland

Report: Meteor Made 2.1 Kiloton Explosion Over Air Force Space

Command Base Thule, Greenland, The Aviationist, Aug 03 2018

https://theaviationist.com/2018/08/03/report-meteor-made-2-1-kiloton-explosion-over-air-force-space-command-base-thule-greenland/

Yours,

Paul H.

Blue Crystals from Meteorite Record Young Sun’s Outbursts 01AUG2018

 Blue Crystals from Meteorite Record Young Sun’s Outbursts

The Young Sun’s Outbursts Were Trapped in

Blue Crystals From Outer Space Gases trapped

inside a meteorite that fell to Earth offer the

first physical clues of the “terrible twos”

phase of our star early in the life of the solar

system. By Nicholas St. Fleur, July 30, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/science/blue-crystals-sun.html

 

Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun

went through the 'terrible twos', Field Museum

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-blue-crystals-meteorites-sun-terrible.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Tick-Borne Meat Allergy, Another Reason To Be Careful About Tick 30JUL2018

Tick-Borne Meat Allergy, Another Reason To Be Careful About Tick

Meteorite hunters tromping through fields, forests, pastures,
and grasslands should always be careful of tick bites. The upswing
in Tick-Borne Meat Allergy is an important one.

What the Mystery of the Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Could Reveal
Unraveling why tick bites are suddenly causing a strange reaction
in some people who eat meat could help scientists better
understand how all allergies work. The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/magazine/what-the-mystery-of-the-tick-borne-meat-allergy-could-reveal.html

Red Meat Allergies Caused By Tick Bites Are On The Rise
Morning Edition, June 25, 2018
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/06/25/621080751/red-meat-allergies-caused-by-tick-bites-are-on-the-rise

Yours,

Paul H.

Einstein's theory passes black hole test 27JUL2018

Einstein's theory passes black hole test 

Einstein theory passes black hole test

By Paul Rincon, BBC News website

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44967491

The paper is:

R. Abuter, A. Amorim, et al., 2018, Detection of the g

ravitational redshift in the orbit of the star S2 near the

Galactic centre massive black hole. Astronomy and

astrophysics. Volume 615, July 2018, Article Number L15,

https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833718

Published online 26 July 2018

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/07/aa33718-18/aa33718-18.html

Yours,

Paul H.