[meteorite-list] Nakhla and the dead mutt!

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:09 2004
Message-ID: <20020809202902.69267.qmail_at_web11602.mail.yahoo.com>

The cheap way to do this would be to post and hand out
color flyers in Arabic to the locals showing what
Nakhla looks like along with a reward and contact
information, perhaps using a reputable Egyptian
academic or mineral dealer as a contact, perhaps
not...

itīs cheaper than "Mars Sample Return", or whatever..

just my thoughts -
ep


--- Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> >Hello List, I have a question! There is a lot of
> arguing about
> >this dog thing! If there is any validity at all to
> Ron Baalke's
> >theory, there could be one big strewn field between
> El Nakhla and
> >Denshal.
>
> Ah, someone who sees the true light. I've already
> pointed
> out on several occassions on the possibility of a
> large
> Nakhla strewn field. If a dog was hit in Denshal,
> 33 km from El Nakhla, then that would indicate a
> large
> strewnfield between the two. As far as I know, Hume
> nor anyone else
> knowledgable of meteorites have looked for
> meteorites in Denshal
> or anywhere between El Nakhla and Denshal. Hume
> focused his
> meteorite collecting only within the confines of El
> Nakhla.
> Had Hume searched for meteorites outside the Nakhla
> district, he would
> have undoubtedly found more meteorites, particularly
> along the
> flight path axis. That conclusion is based soley on
> the strewnfield
> data that Hume had collected. There is physical
> evidence that
> indicates the Nakhla strewnfield was indeed large.
>
> Hume did carefully document where each meteorite
> fragment in El Nakhla were
> found. He also documented the direction of the
> meteorite fall, and noted
> that the farthest distance between the fragments was
> 4.5 km.
>
> As a sidenote, the Nakhla district is also 4.5 km
> long.
> Hume focused his search on meteorites found by the
> local inhabitants,
> and there is no record of him or any of his
> colleagues canvassing
> the area outside of El Nakhla.
>
> Now comes the real interesting part.
> As you know, a strewn field is an ellipse with its
> long axis
> along the direction of flight. The 4.5 km distance
> that Hume documented
> is not along the flight of path, but surprisingly,
> is instead perpendicular
> to the flight path. This indicates that Hume had
> documented
> just a small cross section of the true strewnfield.
> In other words, the
> Nakhla strewnfield ellipse is at least 4.5 km WIDE,
> and probably wider,
> as Hume did not search outside of El Nakhla. More
> importantly, the strewnfield's
> long axis along its flight path would be consideraly
> longer than its
> 4.5 km width. The true Nakhla strewnfield would
> extend out in both directions
> along the flight path, into the nearby lake in one
> direction, and out towards Denshal in the other
> direction. The locations
> of the endpoints of the strewnfield are not known,
> but there
> are indications that the strewnfield extends out
> from El Nakhla to Denshal.
> Denshal falls along the flight path 33 km downstream
> from El Nakhla.
> The were reports that people witnessed the Nakhla
> meteorite fall in Denshal, including the report
> of a meteorite hitting a dog in Denshal. A
> meteorite
> fragment was produced from Denshal, which is now
> lost,
> but its description matched that of the Nakhla
> meteorite.
>
> The dog story itself of itself is of
> little relevance, other than it supports that the
> Nakhla strewnfield
> is much larger than originally thought.
>
> Ron Baalke
>
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Received on Fri 09 Aug 2002 04:29:02 PM PDT