[meteorite-list] Gilligan's Island Meteorite Answer

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jun 30 00:46:12 2005
Message-ID: <6lu6c1hs6gcc9hkgflehnk9tu90r9nfk1o_at_4ax.com>

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:52:12 EDT, MexicoDoug_at_aol.com wrote:

>Cosmic "rays" are typically nuclear particles, simply going soooooo fast
>after probable ejection from supernovas elsewhere, that each "ray" a.k.a.
>particle, packs a tremendous whallop. The most powerful cosmic "ray" on record, I
>believe, (might be a proton or probably a nucleus of something larger) with
>the same energy as pitched 100 mph (160 km/hr) fastball (baseball)! That an

I remembered a good Scientific American article on this from a few years back, and googled up a PDF
of it:

http://hires.phys.columbia.edu/papers/croninSciAm.pdf
Received on Thu 30 Jun 2005 12:54:34 AM PDT