[meteorite-list] exact Carolina Bay crater locations, RB Firestone, A West, et al, two YD reviews, 2008 June, 2009 Nov, also 3 upcoming abstracts: Rich Murray 2009.11.14

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:47:05 -0500
Message-ID: <cj80g5dgbe6o1bu1aup7gvca3pvrvjnlpm_at_4ax.com>

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:39:04 -0700, you wrote:

>It is consistent with the ejecta layer from an impact event and

...

>ejecta layer is consistent with an impact near the Great Lakes
>that deposited terrestrial-like ejecta near the impact site and
>unusual, titanium-rich projectile-like ejecta further away.

...

>Ni, Co, U, Th and other trace element abundances are inconsistent
>with all terrestrial and extraterrestrial (ET) sources except for
>KREEP, a lunar igneous rock rich in potassium (K), rare-earth
>elements (REE), phosphorus (P), and other incompatible elements
>including U and Th.

...

>Four holes in the Great Lakes, some deeper than Death Valley,
>are proposed as possible craters produced by the airburst
>breakup of a loosely aggregated projectile.

...

>the Great Lakes or Hudson Bay. The magnetic grains and
>spherules have an unusual Fe/Ti composition similar to lunar
>Procellarum KREEP Terrane and the organic constituents are
>enriched in 14C leading to radiocarbon dates often well into
>the future.
>These characteristics are inconsistent with known meteorites
>and suggest that the impact was by a previous unobserved,
>possibly extrasolar body.



Okay, a review-- so far this impactor has been a 500 mile wide snowflake from
the atmosphere of a supernova hitting at hundreds of kilometers per second. It
has been an airburst over ice leaving no crater. It has left craters deeper
than Death Valley in the Great Lakes. It has caused golden showers and a rain
of diamonds that lasted for months. It shotgun-blasted iron particles into the
tusks of mammoths. It has been a comet. It has been a chondrite, and all
meteorites found by or through Nininger have been debris from it, so it was
actually all types of chondrite and everything else Nininger collected. Now, it
is an extrasolar lunar meteorite from the future.

So, to sum it up, this 500 mile 10 mile very low-density metal and stone filled
comet-asteroid supernova-produced lunar snowflake that struck at hundreds of
kilometers per second did and didn't produce impact craters and left no marks
except for the Great Lakes and thousands of very shallow overlapping, highly
oblong pits exactly like craters from an impact event except for craters from an
impact event rarely being very shallow, overlapping, highly oblong pits. It
killed off all the lost Ice Age fauna at once, except for all of the Ice Age
fauna, which went extinct at different times in different locations and spread
out over thousands to tens of thousands of years (in some spots pretty darn well
timed with the establishment of human populations, coincidence or no.) Oh, and
somehow a supernova is still involved.

That isn't refining an idea-- that is throwing everything you can think of
against the wall and hoping that some of it sticks.
Received on Sun 15 Nov 2009 10:47:05 AM PST