[meteorite-list] Cali chondrite fell extremely cold!

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:38:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <224964.17138.qm_at_web33114.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Of course, crater-forming meteorites would start
fires, I mean meteorite falls in general. Crater-
forming extinction-causing meteorites are not what I
am talking about.
Michael Farmer
--- Mal Bishop <magbish3 at lowcountry.com> wrote:

>
> Replying to Chris' email regarding Canyon Diablo,
> Mike and Cali, et al, I,
> just by happenstance, found this information
> regarding Barringer Meteorite
> Crater (aka Meteor Crater)
> relating to the destructive effects of the impact.
> It describes the
> results of the impact on the local topography,
> biosphere, etc. I never saw
> this particular
> site before for some reason, maybe some others on
> this list haven't
> either. On the other hand, there are probably many
> of you on the list who
> are aware
> of it -- if this was posted previously within the
> past few months or so,
> forgive me.
>
>
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/Enviropages/Barringer/barringerstartpage.html
>
>
>
>
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/Enviropages/wildfires.html
>
>
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/Enviropages/Barringer/Megafauna.html
>
>
> I found this map most interesting and informative (
> I need visual aids <g>
> ):
>
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/Enviropages/Barringer/effectsmappage.html
> It pictorially demonstrates the affect impact/blast
> had on local environment
>
> I initially was doing some research on the local
> environment of northern
> Arizona as it was some 50,000 years ago before and
> after the 50 meter
> impactor made its presence
> known. It just makes me shudder just a little every
> time when I really
> take the time to ponder something like this
> impacting us today, in or near
> any populated area, let alone something on the
> magnitude of what struck
> some 65 million years ago on the Yucatan Peninsula.
>
> Well anyway, some more info for either your archived
> reference files, or
> your "file 13" (also known as the circular file).
> The choice is yours. :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Mal
>
>
> At 01:51 PM 7/30/2007 -0600, Chris Peterson wrote:
> >>Interesting, but I certainly do not believe that a
> >>meteorite can start a fire, unless it ruptures a
> gas
> >>tank or something like that.
> >
> >I'll bet Canyon Diablo started a few fires. And as
> for Chicxulub... <g>
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >*****************************************
> >Chris L Peterson
> >Cloudbait Observatory
> >http://www.cloudbait.com
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Farmer"
> <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> >To: "Randy Korotev" <korotev at wustl.edu>;
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> >Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 9:41 AM
> >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Cali chondrite fell
> extremely cold!
> >
> >
> >>Interesting, but I certainly do not believe that a
> >>meteorite can start a fire, unless it ruptures a
> gas
> >>tank or something like that.
> >>Michael Farmer
> >
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