[meteorite-list] FW: NASA ANNOUNCES SITE OF "GREAT DYING"METEORCRATER

From: Devin Schrader <makinsomenoise_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed May 12 16:14:24 2004
Message-ID: <000901c4385d$a278b470$6501a8c0_at_hewlett9por0s0>

   Thanks for the sites, I've read her papers but it never seemed like she
had enough conclusive evidence to prove her theory, never solid enough. I
wonder if she found it.
Devin


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From: "Paul H" <bristolia_at_yahoo.com>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] FW: NASA ANNOUNCES SITE OF "GREAT
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> FW: NASA ANNOUNCES SITE OF "GREAT DYING" METEORCRATER
> Devin Schrader asked:
>
> >I wonder if they found enough evidence for
> Antarctica?
>
> The password "beckerImpact" sounds like an illusion
> to:
> Dr. Luann Becker's work in Antarctica.
>
> Some of her web pages are:
>
> "Exploring Antarctica: Understanding Earth and Beyond"
> http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/index.html
> http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/photo_journal_week3.html
>
> Her research papers are found at:
>
> http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/research_papers.html
>
> Some of them are:
>
> ROBERT J. POREDA and LUANN BECKER, 2003, Fullerenes
> and Interplanetary Dust at the Permian-Triassic
> Boundary.
> Astrobiology. Volume 3, Number 1, 2003
> http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/downloads/poreda.pdf
>
> Basu, A. R., Petaev, M. I., Poreda, R. J., Jacobsen,
> S. B., and Becker, L., 2003, Chondritic meteorite
> fragments associated with the Permian-Triassic
> boundary in Antarctica. Science. vol. 302,
> pp.1388-1392.
>
http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/downloads/chondritic_meteorite_fragments.pdf
>
> Luann Becker, 2002, Repeated Blows. Scientific
> American.
> vol. ?, pp. 78-83.
> http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/downloads/blows.pdf
>
> Another paper is:
>
> Impact Event at the Permian-Triassic Boundary:
> Evidence
> from Extraterrestrial Noble Gases in Fullerene. Luann
> Becker, Robert J. Poreda, Andrew G. Hunt, Theodore E.
> Bunch and Michael Rampino in Science, Vol. 291,
> pp. 1530-1533; February 23, 2001.
>
> Then there is:
>
> 11/26/03 - Claystone Breccia on Mt. Crean.
> http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/week3_6.html
>
> This breccia might be at the distal edge of the ejecta
> blanket from an impact crater.
>
> Regardless, it will be quite fun wherever they
> hypothesize it to be. :-) :-) If this works out,
> she will have made her name.
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul
> Baton Rouge, LA
>
>
>
>
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