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Re: Bernd: Meteor May Not Have Destroyed Dinosaurs Afterall?

In a message dated 99-10-05 16:27:43 EDT, you write:

<< 
 From what I recall dust in the upper atmosphere does not get "rained out"
 because it is above the altitude where rain clouds form.  Unless for some 
reason
 this thermal wave also created high altitude water vapor clouds, but this has
 yet to be proven that this occurs.  High altitude dust has been proven many
 times with volcanos and atomic bombs.<<

High altitude clouds do form....for example noctilucent clouds form at 
altitudes of around 50 miles in the high latitudes. I highly doubt any form 
of precipitation occurs from these type of clouds that are witnessed today. 
But this may simply be due to the lack of human experiences to note what 
happens when massive amounts of water vapor is carried upwards in a massive 
thermal heat engine? As long as there is a hot bubble of air, it will 
continue to rise until it cools and anvils out like a thundercloud. The 
cooling of the air bubble is what stops the rising growth of a thunderhead.  
If the heat is significant enough, I don't see why it wouldn't carry these 
particles into outer space beyond the range of noctilucent cloud formation? 
If the particles are small enough, wouldn't solar wind become a cleaning 
factor then? And if large enough to fall back like micrometeorites, wouldn't 
they be able to filter out on their own due to gravity like the 
micrometeorites do today? I understand some folks do record Micrometeorite 
activity increase within a day or so of major showers. These drift from the 
very high altitudes being discussed here and are noted as being very small. 
Yet gravity is able to influence their downward fall in a relatively short 
period. 
 GeoZay

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