[meteorite-list] Trinitite was "Who is Dr. LaPaz"

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:42:08 -0500
Message-ID: <e51421551002270642p6cf81426wf50c29909e65f77e_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Paul and List,

Thanks for the trinitite links! A couple of those are new to me. Now
I have something to read today. :)

Best regards,

MikeG


On 2/27/10, Paul Heinrich <oxytropidoceras at cox.net> wrote:
> In the thread [meteorite-list] "Who is Dr. LaPaz" at
> http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2010-February/061407.html
>
> Shawn Alan asked:
>
> "Lastly, along with the meteorite specimens I also received
> a trinitite fragment weighing at 1.79g that he had collected
> from the Trinity project and was wondering if people on
> the list knew much about this stuff."
>
> Go look at;
>
> 1. "Trinitite" at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitite
>
> 2. Parekh, P. P.. T. M. Semkow, M. A. Torres, D. K. Haines,
> J. M. Cooper, P. M. Rosenberg and M. E. Kitto, 2006,
> Radioactivity in Trinitite six decades later. Journal of
> Environmental Radioactivity. vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 103?112.
>
> Abstract at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2005.01.017
>
> PDF file at
>
> http://www.ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/Trinitite-JER-2006.pdf
>
> 3. Trinitite Varieties Steven L. Kay, Nuclearon
>
> http://www.radiochemistry.org/documents/pdf/trinitite_nuclearon_061608.pdf
>
> 4. Ross, C. S., 1948, Optical properties of glass from
> Alamogordo, New Mexico. American Mineralogist. vol 33,
> no 5-6, pp. 360-363.
>
> http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM33/AM33_360.pdf
> http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/amtoc/toc1948.htm
>
> 5. Eby, G. N., N. Charley, and J. A., Smoliga, 2010, and
> Trinitite - The Atomic Clock. Geological Society of America
> Abstracts with Programs. vol. . 42, no. 1, p. 77.
>
> http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010NE/finalprogram/abstract_169905.htm
>
> 6. Pittauerova, D., nd, Trinitite Radioactivity of trinitite after
> 62 years. Radioactivity Measurements Laboratory, Universitat
> Breman.
>
> http://www.radioaktivitaet.uni-bremen.de/Seminar/Trinitite.pdf
>
> Reading about the bomb tests from Pittauerova (nd).
>
> Rhodes, Richard, 1986, The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
> Simon and Schuster, New York
>
> Szasz, Ferene, 1984, The Day the Sun Rose Twice.
> University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
>
> Jungk, Robert, 1958, Brighter than a Thousand Suns:
> A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. Harcourt
> Brace, New York.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jungk
>
> A related paper is:
>
> Whitehead, N. E., S. Endo, K. Tanaka, T. Takatsuji, M. Hoshi,
> S. Fukutani, R.G. Ditchburn, and A. Zondervan. 2007, A
> preliminary study on the use of 10Be in forensic radioecology
> of nuclear explosion sites. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.
> vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 260-270.
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17904707
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
>
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