[meteorite-list] Carnacas smoke-trail photos

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:54:57 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <656393.90242.qm_at_web33112.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I was lucky enough to learn that teenager was able to
take a photo of the Carancas meteorite smoketrail, and
I purchased the right to copy and use that photo.
I will post this when I get home, and it belongs to
me, please do not use it without my permission. I gave
him enough to buy a new camera and take 1000 more
photos. He saw the fall, grabbed his camera, snapped a
photo of the corkscrew smoketrail, then went to the
fall site some 5 miles away. The other photos were
very poor, so I did not use them, but they showed the
crater filling with water, and many chunks of
meteorite in the crater walls, as well as incredible
amounts of meteorite powder. He also had a photo from
a distance of more than 2 kilometers where you could
see a smokecloud which looked like a small mushroom
cloud which he confirmed was the steam coming from the
crater. That photo was visible, but too poor for me to
use as I could not copy it and see the detail.
Is it indeed possible that a mass of say 3-7 tons
could cause such intense heat on impact? We think that
the compression of the soil, in an instant to many
meteors deep could also cause intense heating.
Every person we interviewed decribed boiling water,
lots of steam, and horrible sulfer type smell. The
media of course, hyped the crap to levels that were
bordering on insane.
Michael Farmer
Received on Tue 02 Oct 2007 06:54:57 PM PDT