[meteorite-list] Re: New Research on Moon's origins/Dinosaur Extinction (was Eucrites)

From: E.L. Jones <jonee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:38 2004
Message-ID: <3AAA9B9B.E755B860_at_epix.net>

Seems a local researcher in Kutzown University in PA has been researching tides
from 3.2 billion years ago. Samples of un metamorphosed sand/mud stones from
deep South African Mines have lain undisturbed for these 3.2 billion years but
when laid down, the daily mud over sand accumulations are uniformly regular.
This shows a very circular lunar orbit and favors Impactor /eject a theory
versus the capture theory --which would have had a very elliptical orbit and
produced nonuniform bands of sediments.

Seems that the moon is slowly pulling away from the earth a little bit each day
and the tides are getting longer. If you do a reverse calculation one can see
that the moon was much closer to the earth in times past. Theoretically , only
a few meters around 65 million years ago. This may have been the cause of
extinction of the dinosaurs... well the tall ones anyway.......<G>

Elton

Meteordealer wrote:

> <SNIP>. It was even thought not long ago that the moon was an
> Asteroid that was captured by the Earth's gravity.
>
> Brad Sampson
> meteor.dealer_at_gte.net
Received on Sat 10 Mar 2001 04:25:50 PM PST