[meteorite-list] intentions!

From: Steve Schoner <steve_schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:41 2004
Message-ID: <20030619212827.7755.qmail_at_web12707.mail.yahoo.com>

I have made my opinion known on this, and from
personal experience, I found that they are not to this
day really interested in science.

I even heard one crater manager say, "All the
research that needs to have been done was done."

But you won't ever hear a favorable mention of Dr.
Nininger in any of their stories of the research. It
was he that found the metallic sphereoids that proved
that Dr. Moulton was correct that the meteoroid
vaporized on impact creating the crater that we admire
today. There is no "main" mass of enormous size that
needs to be smelted down underneath the southern rim
of the crater. Shoemaker in his doctoral dissertation
pretty much explained in great detail the process of
crater formation. A process that results in the almost
instantaneous vaporization of the impactor. The only
fragments that survive are those that come in its wake
or the 5% or so that are super heated from the back
side of the impactor as it first slams into solid rock
at hypersonic velocity. These are like "scab"
shrapnel in a tank turret that is struck by a shell.
A shock wave is generated at the point of impact, then
it moves to the opposite side, and when it hits
"scabs" are formed that then fly off the side opposite
to the point of impact. This is exactly the process
that occurred at "Meteor" (meteorite) Crater as in
this case the iron impactor hitting the ground.

Though MCE supports scientific institutions and host
celebratory events such as this, which is great, their
lack of research support out there at the crater is
appalling.

(They should tell their guides not to say to visitors
that the "meteor" weighing hundreds of thousands of
tons is probably underneath the southern rim-- the
"research" done by Dr. Moulton, Dr. Nininger, and Dr.
Shoemaker proves otherwise)

Steve Schoner/AMS
http://www.geocities.com/meteorite_identification



--- Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_frontiernet.net>
wrote:
> Hello Good List, I can't stop myself, any time I
> hear the name Barringer, I
> go crazy! I do not care what Barringer did for
> science! Canyon Diablo is a
> great meteorite, one of the few that you can see the
> effects that it's fall
> caused. Barringer might of proved that Meteor Crater
> was an impact site, but
> I look at his intentions, he proved it so he could
> destroy one our greatest
> meteorites! If he had his way, it would of all been
> smelted! He did nothing
> for science, he did it for money! Then, not finding
> his money making main
> mass, he used the crater itself to make his money.
> It still is the same way
> today, no science, just money!
> Thanks, Tom
> The proudest member of the IMCA 6168
>
>
>
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Received on Thu 19 Jun 2003 05:28:27 PM PDT