[meteorite-list] Meteorite Doubting Thomas
From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:38:16 -0400 Message-ID: <BAY141-W2EF543C47AD1D78F17C07F8B50_at_phx.gbl> Hi, all, This may be a silly question, but wouldn't that size of the crater/impact in Peru be captured as an event on a seismograph? I would suspect there are plenty in this region. I haven't read the articles over the past two days, so apologies if this information has already been announced. Cheers, Pete > From: mqfowler at mac.com > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:35:05 -0500 > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > CC: mqfowler at mac.com > 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 > > > Tracy, > > Point one: > > Meteorites may be cold, but when the several hundred kilograms (or > more) of mass comes to a complete stop from a speed of hundreds of KM > per hour, most of the kinetic heat of motion is turned into heat. > You do the math, but if hitting a hammer on an anvil can make it hot, > just think of something thousands of times heavier, and thousands of > times more velocity and the result is obvious! > > Point two: > > Small meteorites loose their cosmic velocity miles high, and and the > rest of their fall is dark. A very large meteor will retain a > substantial amount of its cosmic velocity until impact. Why should > it not be incandescent up untill the moment of impact? > > Mike Fowler > > Chicago > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us Received on Sun 23 Sep 2007 08:38:16 AM PDT |
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