[meteorite-list] Crackpot impact theory

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Sep 24 22:41:14 2005
Message-ID: <fe3cj151t6dlnccn2l369ndl4r7cbjc0i6_at_4ax.com>

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:06:58 -0500, "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly_at_bhil.com> wrote:

> The author, Firestone, is a "real" scientist,
>but the crazy comet made out of a supernova
>he gets from the site holder of this web site:
><http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/>

Here's what another real scientist http://www.thesolarsystem.org/davidmorrison.html has to say about
his new "theory":



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/24/BAGG9ET78M1.DTL

The Firestone-West proposal drew quick criticism from a leading expert on cosmic impact events,
David Morrison of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View.

"Apparently, none of this work has been published in a peer-reviewed journal," Morrison said in an
e-mail to The Chronicle. "The idea that debris from a supernova explosion coalesced into
low-density, comet-like objects is unsupported in terms of any science that I know of." Also, the
claim of tiny impact craters in the tusks "is pretty obviously false," Morrison said. "No such
grains could get through the atmosphere."
Received on Sat 24 Sep 2005 10:42:22 PM PDT