[meteorite-list] Meteorite Yields Carbon Crystals Harder ThanDiamond

From: al mitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:57:05 -0500
Message-ID: <258DA6B95A524EFF93C33A9EFD655F2A_at_StarmanPC>

Greetings all,

I seriously doubt that the diamonds formed from pressure and heat entering
the Earth's Atmosphere. The interior of meteorites usually stay cold all the
way to the ground, except for rare acceptions.

Diamonds from impact would be another story.

--AL Mitterling
>From Sunny Tucson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:23 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Yields Carbon Crystals Harder
ThanDiamond

>experienced the intense heat and pressure of entering the Earth's
>atmosphere and crashing into the ground. The graphite layers would
>have been heated and shocked enough to create bonds between them, in
>much the same way as humans manufacture
>diamonds.
Received on Thu 04 Feb 2010 06:57:05 AM PST