[meteorite-list] An alternative origin of tektites

From: Charles O'Dale <codale0806_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Mar 28 20:27:41 2005
Message-ID: <012801c533fe$8aaf9640$6e656718_at_mdguo5m3tdnvnv>

I had replied to the author of that piece of pseudoscience refuting all of
his points. He answered once with more pseudoscience. I refuted his reply
and have not heard from him since. The article was full of "it could have
happened this way" without the empirical evidence to back it up.

I had complained to the editors of the RASC journal regarding the lack of
screening of their articles. Got lip service from them. I was shocked that a
reputable journal from the RASC would publish an article that could be
refuted so easily with empirical evidence. It showed a complete lack of
scientific research on articles received.

I can forward the word file of my correspondence to anyone who is
interested.

Cheers
Charles O'Dale
Meeting Chair
Ottawa RASC
http://www.ottawa.rasc.ca/astronomy/earth_craters/index.html

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> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:00:33 -0700
> From: "Graham Christensen" <voltage_at_telus.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] An alternative origin of tektites
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> I read an article in the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada journal that
> said that the Earth once had a ring of tektites or a system of rings
> around
> it and when the supercontinent pangea formed, the earth's gravitational
> field became lop-sided and the tektite material in the ring ended up in an
> orbital resonance with pangea and the tektites formed a clump or "ring
> arc"
> that was directly over pangea at perigee. When pangea broke up, the
> resonance dissapeared and the ring arc's orbit began to decay The shape
> and
> distribution of the australasian tektite strewnfield and the ablasion
> characteristics of the tektites is consistent with a ring arc's orbit
> decaying and eventually bringing the material crashing to earth at a low
> angle.
>
> Furthermore, the tektites associated with the chesapeake bay crater may
> infact have been dragged down by the impactor's gravitational field as it
> passed through or near the rings and this may be the case with other
> tektite
> fields as well.
>
> I have the article here on paper but I can't find it on the internet. I'm
> not sure if this has been posted before but if anyone's interested I could
> type up the text and E-mail it to the list.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Graham Christensen
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