[meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain Was From A Comet, Study Suggests

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jun 1 16:05:42 2006
Message-ID: <20060601193439.27889.qmail_at_web50902.mail.yahoo.com>

This got really good coverage a while back. I recall
that there was some lepidoptrist (I hope I spelt it
correctly) among us who believed that it was likely
bits of some mass butterfly swarm.

There was also a lot of confusion about why it had
taken them so long to come to any sort of conclusion
as to what these red "cell" were supposed to be.

I looked at a lot of the reports and myself came to
the conclusion that the scientist should at least be
trying to see if they were butterfly related or some
such thing. To the best of my knowledge, they haven't,
though I stopped following as my interest quickly
waned.

All this talk of extra-terrestrial stuff and comet
material is an not some scaly animal stuff of some
sort is a almost certainly a red herring....ahem.

Rob Mc

--- Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Still an interesting puzzler!
>
> I'm sure that this self-contradicting press release
> is just one more of the
> usual media screw-ups/misquotes when it comes to
> science.
>
> Is there somewhere else that would have more on this
> current statement? I
> had a look, but couldn't find anything...
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
>
>
>
> From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain Was From A
> Comet, Study Suggests
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:35:46 -0700 (PDT)
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>
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>
> Kerala red rain was comet disintegration
> Ceannai Online
> May 31, 2006
>
> Kottayam, May 31: The "red rains" in Kerala five
> years ago was the result
> of the atmospheric disintegration of a comet,
> according to a study.
>
> The study conducted at the School of Pure and
> Applied Physics of the MG
> University here by Dr Godfrey Louis and his student
> a Santosh Kumar
> shows that red rain cells were devoid of DNA which
> suggests their
> extra-terrestrial origin.
>
> The findings published in the international journal
> 'Astrophysics and
> Space Science' state that the cometery fragment
> contained dense
> collection of red cells.
>
> Commenting on the study at a press conference here,
> Dr N Chandra
> Wikramesinghe, Director of Cardiff Centre for
> Astrobiology, UK, said
> "what makes this study most important is the
> similarity of the red
> particles with living cells."
>
> "If the red rain cells are finally proved to be of
> extra-terrestrial
> origin then that would be one of the most important
> discoveries in
> human history. It will change our concept about the
> universe and
> life," he added.
>
> The red coloured rains were reported in different
> parts of Kerala
> from July to September 2001.
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Received on Thu 01 Jun 2006 03:34:39 PM PDT