[meteorite-list] Fw: Re: Biophysicist confirms Liberal boy's meteorite discovery
From: countdeiro at earthlink.net <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:08:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <17474608.1258657736643.JavaMail.root_at_wamui-june.atl.sa.earthlink.net> -----Forwarded Message----- >From: countdeiro at earthlink.net >Sent: Nov 19, 2009 1:51 PM >To: Michael Fowler <mqfowler at mac.com> >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Biophysicist confirms Liberal boy's meteorite discovery > >Hi Mike and List, > >RPG's don't make a crater that big. Anybody want to run some calc's on what it would take to make an impact crater one foot deep and two and a half feet in diameter in nice loamy soil... as depicted? Or, if the boy did greatly enlarge it ...how about just a hole the size of that frag one foot deep? > >Guido > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Michael Fowler <mqfowler at mac.com> >>Sent: Nov 19, 2009 1:38 PM >>To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >>Cc: Michael Fowler <mqfowler at mac.com> >>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Biophysicist confirms Liberal boy's meteorite discovery >> >>Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I would certainly agree! Thanks, Graham. >> >>A small meteorite could never make a big hole like in the picture, but people could, while digging around to find the meteorite at the bottom, so my hypothesis has not been conclusively falsified, yet. However, this does shift the balance of evidence back toward it being a hoax. >> >>Time will tell. >> >>Mike >> >>> Another picture here showing the so called impact place/pit!! >>> >>> http://208.62.60.4/78/printer_1564.shtml >>> >>> Could a small iron like that falling at terminal velocity produce that in what looks like very hard ground?....looks artificial to me. (unless some excavation was done to retrieve it) >>> >>> I would have thought though that Don must have seen many meteorites and respect his thoughts....but as the latest discussion has shown...very few fresh irons have been seen just after they fell and I still think this does not look like it should....unless the photographs are very poor, making it look browner and glossier than it really is? >>> >>> Would be interesting to have it tested to see if it has been cleaned and treated in some way. >>> >>> I could be wrong, but.... >>> >>> Graham UK >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---- Michael Fowler <mqfowler at mac.com> wrote: >>> >>> > Meteorite Hoax, or meteorite exaggeration? >>> >>> > >>> >>> > As a meteorite hoax, it is missing many of the classic symptoms, no flaming trail, no red hot iron at the bottom of the hole etc. >>> >>> > >>> >>> > Let me propose an alternate explanation: The size of the hole and the material shooting 5 feet high was an exaggeration, but it actually is a real fall. >>> >>> > >>> >>> > Mike Fowler >>> >>> > Chicago >>______________________________________________ >>http://www.meteoritecentral.com >>Meteorite-list mailing list >>Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Thu 19 Nov 2009 02:08:56 PM PST |
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