[meteorite-list] Yet another Elma Material update Re: Moon dust

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:34 2004
Message-ID: <3F3E62BD.9745B290_at_tkc.att.ne.jp>

Dear Mike and Listees,
    Do you have any moon dust after cutting your lunar? With such a cut
loss I hope that you kept it. Please let me know if you have any for
sale. I am sure that other list members would be interested in
purchasing some also. Sincerely, Dirk Ross...Tokyo

Michael Farmer wrote:

> WOW, burn marks and dents on the bleachers? It is a
> high school, do you think that it could possibly be
> that they get used and abused, cigarette burns maybe?
> Who was there in the track at that time of morning to
> see the dust clouds in the dark?
> Piece of glass in the telephone pole;, did this
> inspector Clueso find any bugs in there, dead termites
> that may have also been injected into the pole by this
> "Plasma" blast, or maybe it was just that bad ass
> female Terminatrix from the latest Terminator movie.
> Hundreds of little craters in the sand? you know, when
> I was a kid we called them doodlebugs, those little
> creatures AKA Ant Lions that make little craters to
> catch their food. Could be that.
>
> Sounds like a lightning strike, or someone smoking too
> much bad crack cocaine to me.
> Adam, keep posting though, this makes my day reading
> this stuff.
> Almost as good as reading the Ebolamonkeyman website
> about screwing with the Nigerian scammers.
> Funny stuff.
>
> By the way, I found a little pit in my backyard and
> dug inside and found a cat turd like thing in there,
> now I have two cats, but I know that they only use the
> litter box in the house, so this CANT be a cat turd.
> Can you come take some to the lab, I know it is a Mars
> rock since Mars is so near us right now.
>
> Just another day in Tucson.
> Mike Farmer
>
> --- Adam Hupe <adamhupe_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> > Dear List Members,
> >
> > This email was sent and I felt it deserved to be
> > responded to publicly
> > because I have received numerous other emails asking
> > similar questions. If
> > you are not interested in the latest Elma material
> > results please hit your
> > delete button now.
> >
> > **************************************************
> > I was wondering if you would mind updating me on
> > what you have
> > found out about the Elma object. I did not want to
> > post this to the list
> > because the subject seems to bring out the worst in
> > SOME people, and I
> > don't really want to invoke another word war. In any
> > case, I would keep
> > anything you say confidential until you decide to
> > tell the rest of the
> > community about it if you wish.
> > **************************************************
> >
> > First of all, I went back to Elma for some answers
> > to several questions.
> > Some of the things that I did was to collect samples
> > from the supplier of
> > the original sinter track material and to track down
> > the source of the sand
> > found in the shot-put pit.
> >
> > The sand in the shot-put pit came from a quarry
> > about a quarter of a mile
> > away. It was determined that the sand is natural,
> > clean and that the glassy
> > objects were introduced sometime later.
> >
> > Since sinters could be a possible explanation we
> > decided it would be proper
> > to compare them with what was found in the pit. The
> > sinters are left over
> > material from burning coal in a steam plant. The
> > sinters in the original
> > track have been covered for over a decade by a layer
> > of asphalt and a
> > covering of rubber. Since it was thought that these
> > glassy objects might
> > have been contamination from the original track it
> > was important to locate
> > the source of these sinters for comparison. Here is
> > the problem, coal
> > varies from one burn to the next which means there
> > will be some variance in
> > the sinters. All I can say is that the sinters that
> > were tested at the UW
> > did not match the glassy objects found in the pit.
> > The UW will release a
> > public opinion, I believe, on the results tomorrow.
> >
> > Things that we have no explanation for:
> >
> > A dust cloud was observed from the pit within
> > seconds of seeing the
> > fireball.
> >
> > An eyewitnesses finger and thumb were burned after
> > picking up a piece.
> >
> > A piece of this glass was found by a police officer
> > embedded in a telephone
> > pole next to the pit.
> >
> > The same police officer reported that there were
> > dents and burn marks on
> > some nearby bleachers.
> >
> > The same officer reported that where these black
> > objects were found on an
> > asphalt sidewalk that there was melting.
> >
> > A newspaper photographer took a picture of hundreds
> > of little craters in the
> > sand, each containing these black glass objects at
> > the bottom.
> >
> > Sand which was not melted was found in the centers
> > of most of these objects
> > which consist of basaltic glass that was quenched
> > very rapidly, kind of like
> > a fulgurite.
> >
> > The track coach claims the sand was clean prior to
> > this event and sinters
> > would never have been added.
> >
> > A few institutions have weighed in on this event.
> > One DOD contractor thinks
> > it could have been a transient event (a plasma
> > discharge) which they
> > sporadically pick up on their sensors when
> > monitoring for nuclear activity
> > from time to time. A Russian scientist is convinced
> > that it might have been
> > a Geometeorite event (ball lightning). I think that
> > the UW will report that
> > yet more study needs to be done in order to connect
> > this strange glass to
> > the meteor sighting which was witnessed by several
> > dozen people.
> >
> > I will post microprobe pictures and data when the UW
> > gives me the green
> > light.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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