[meteorite-list] Nakhla - What was turned to ash?

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:34 2004
Message-ID: <200308200529.WAA15440_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

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> > One of them fell on a dog at Denshal, leaving it like ashes in the moment."
> >
> Why can't this be interpreted as the "meteorite" fracturing into many
> small fragments aka "ashes" as in a friable portion of what elsewhere
> sank up a meter into the ground?
>

That is very possible. The "it" could be referring to the dog or
the meteorite. I pointed this out some years ago. That's why it is
important to find the original Arabic article. You should always
be careful when things are translated from one language to another.

Ron Baalke
Received on Wed 20 Aug 2003 01:29:11 AM PDT