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

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:34 2004
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B31D8E8_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

As a side note to that....

I believe that 'Ashes' in Arabic is 'Al-qali' meaning 'the thing that
was roasted' it would be interesting to read the original translation; I
bet it's been misinterpreted...

Mark Ford




-----Original Message-----
From: Elton Jones [mailto:jonee_at_epix.net]=20
Sent: 20 August 2003 06:20
Cc: Meteorite Mailing List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Nakhla - What was turned to ash?


> 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=20
small fragments aka "ashes" as in a friable portion of what elsewhere=20
sank up a meter into the ground?

Why must this assume that the dog actually died? I've seen a .45 cal.=20
bullet bounce off a dogs head.-- knocked him cold/wacky for a few=20
minutes but he lived.

Elton


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