[meteorite-list] Megatherium hit by a meteorite ?

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Nov 3 13:21:59 2006
Message-ID: <001601c6ff74$b883c350$d41e82ac_at_thedawning>

Bonjour Pierre-Marie,

It is always a good idea to provide references when you see such
attention-getting assertations, and wish to share and investigate the truth
behind them. Perhaps you can track down the apparent sole Apollo-age source
of this conjecture, Dr. Philip Seff, alledged to be a professor of Geology
at the University of Redlands in California, but who Google-seems to have
more fame as a UFOlogist as the only investigator of several paranormal
events and the author of other hundreds of other beyond the normal,
interesting "Strange Tales", that would provide endless entertainment for
imaginative astrologers with a flare for the paranormal.

You can find the University of Redlands personnel here, though they don't
seem to have a geology department:-), although the google references are not
clear whether Seff worked there or just collaborated, as a starting point to
track him down or find someone in the University inform you if it is bogus:

http://www.redlands.edu/fsearch.xml

The mother site:
http://www.fascinatingearth.com/index.html

E-mail for further information on the copyrighted material reproduced on
your unnamed astronomy site or Seff himself:
info_at_fascinatinglearningfactory.org

Your story, "Death from Outer Space" (no scientific trail, of course):
http://www.fascinatingearth.com/stories/Death%20from%20Outer%20Space.htm

Taken from Chapter 2, the fifth entry, of "Our Fascinating Earth":
http://www.fascinatingearth.com/stories/!INDEX%20-%20Our%20Facinating%20Eart
h.htm

Good luck looking into this - as usual, there is a non-zero possibility that
it is not an invented sensation, not due to any science, but rather due to
lack of information. However the absence of references makes it quite
suspicious IMO, a strategy that pervades in fields where the odd-ball factor
is squeezed for personal gain by people who always have stories that cannot
be proven whether they are made up or true. The meteorite community is one
of the only generally honest places to go - so great to be part of it, eh?

Best wishes, Doug




----- Original Message -----
From: "Pel? Pierre-Marie" <pierremariepele_at_yahoo.fr>
To: "MeteoriteList" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:18 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Megatherium hit by a meteorite ?


Hello again,

I've found the following text on an astronomical
website. Do you know of which meteorite it's about or
where I could get more information ?

"One of the incidents listed as uncertain took place
in prehistoric time. Despite its rating, there is
strong evidence to indicate it probably did happen.
This prehistoric entry involved a stony-iron meteorite
and a Megatherium, an extinct giant South American
sloth.

The broken skeleton of this Ice Age giant was found
lying on the meteorite. Although the meteorite could
have fallen ages before, it would have been an amazing
coincidence for the sloth to have toppled over on it
as it died. Moreover, the nature of the skeletal
remains has led many scientists to suspect that the
sloth was struck by the falling meteorite - some
20,000 years ago."

Regards,

Pierre-Marie PELE






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