[meteorite-list] Is comet fragment capture possible?

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:11:15 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <27157.51408.qm_at_web36902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi -

I have been contacted by Michael Davias, who is putting for the novel hypothesis that some fragments of Comet Encke entered into Earth orbit from Encke's short period orbit, and then impacted the Earth at low speeds later on. He and his associates have set out some of their work here:
http://perigeezero.org/

Including geological data.

As I can no longer work out the mechanics of this, nor evaluate his geological claims, I suggested to him that I forward his message to specialists who could. It follows; please reply to him, and cc me a copy.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas

> From: cintos at me.com
> Subject: Re: Younger Dryas Boundary Manifold
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:23:02 -0500
> To: epgrondine at hotmail.com
>
> Greetings Ed:
> Your recent comments are very helpful and
> appreciated. With respect to the capture and the
> physics of the harmonics involved, I have no great
> confidence in my specific proposals. however, the
> conjecture has been know to the impact community for a
> number of years. I first promoted to Schultz, Peiser,
> napier, etc back in 2006.

> I have heard all the responses.... Every
> one has been based on ... "Well, possible but
> statistically, that is unlikely". Dammed the
> statistics - let's look at the real-world
> evidence! My point here is that it did happen, and it
> was a "gentle" impact, not one from a 27km/sec
> comet...

> Nevertheless, I would encourage you to forward
> on the concept to whomever you may feel would have a
> critical point of view based on their expertise. A good
> place for the conversation to start would be to point them
> at the posts I am making to Google Earth's Nature and
> Geography (Moderated) forum: Inferred
> Orientation of Distal Ejecta
> - Michael
 


      
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