[meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain Was From A Comet, Study Suggests
From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jun 2 00:07:17 2006 Message-ID: <tiou72dq45efg22pckjif532kt8uppv1ui_at_4ax.com> On Wed, 31 May 2006 20:11:54 -0700, you wrote: >Hi all: > >So was this like Bart's Comet (for those of you who know the Simpson's >cartoon) where Bart discovers a comet and it is always over Springfield as it >comes crashing to Earth. Actually the discovery was more accurate than any of >the disasteroid movies that come out at about the same time! > "So there's a commet. Big deal. It'll burn up in our atmosphere and whatever's left will be no bigger than a Chihuahua's head." http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/bartscomet.gif >How do you get a comet raining down material for three months over one city? >It would have to be geosynchronous (revolving once around the Earth in 24 >hours so that is always over the same spot). For some reason, I doubt this. Yeah, I had that same problem with the idea. Received on Thu 01 Jun 2006 05:58:01 PM PDT |
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