[meteorite-list] Meteorite Doubting Thomas

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:46:48 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <676739.15064.qm_at_web33101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I just dont understand why, one week later, we have no
photos of the pieces collected. It seems the media is
all over this, as I was watching it in Spain, but thay
are not interested enough to take one photo of pieces
recovered. It seems to already be in the lab, so why
no photos shared among scientists?
There are too many if's with this one, it seems that
in order to get information, maybe I should just go do
it myself.
Michael Farmer

--- Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Tracy-
>
> I think proper skepticism is certainly in order.
>
> Meteorites arrive cool because several minutes have
> ordinarily passed
> since they were traveling fast enough to produce
> atmospheric heating.
> But if they are several meters across, they can make
> it all the way to
> the ground still moving at a hypersonic speed. Such
> a meteorite will
> certainly be hot at impact, and will produce an
> impressive crater.
>
> Things don't quite add up with this event, which
> makes it interesting. I
> wouldn't expect a body large enough to crater, but
> small enough to
> produce such a small crater, to be stony. The area
> of the crater is very
> remote, but I would have expected an impressive
> fireball seen over a
> vast distance. I'd think additional small craters
> would be likely. A bit
> of seismic activity doesn't prove much, since
> anything that could
> produce a crater this size would also produce
> seismics. But I haven't
> heard that there were any infrasonics produced, as
> would be expected
> from a large fireball. If this was a meteorite,
> especially a stony one,
> the fall dynamics are going to be very interesting
> indeed.
>
> Chris
>
> *****************************************
> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
> http://www.cloudbait.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tracy latimer" <daistiho at hotmail.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "tracy
> latimer"
> <daistiho at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:37 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Doubting Thomas
>
>
>
> I have problems with the meteorite theory:
> 1. Meteorites, as this List knows, come in cold,
> not hot enough to make
> the water in the crater "boiling", as several
> witnesses stated.
> 2. Meteorites usually travel a long distance from
> where the glowing
> meteor is first seen. If the locals saw the bolide,
> chances are good
> whatever they saw fell a long distance away, not
> close enough for them
> to get there soon after it fell.
> 3. Speaking of rocks, by now, everyone in every
> little hamlet knows
> that there are crazy people out there who pay big
> money for meteorites.
> If there was a "shower of rocks" associated with the
> fall, how come none
> of the other purported meteorites have been
> recovered?
> 4. I await the analysis of a real meteorite
> specialist, not a
> geologist, not a vulcanologist, and not media
> speculation! No reputable
> scientist from outside Peru has so far investigated
> the crater or seen
> the alleged meteorite fragments.
> 5. The sickness associated with the crater is a
> likely red herring, and
> unrelated to a real meteorite.
>
> My 2 centavos.
> Tracy Latimer
>
>
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