[meteorite-list] Moroc Meteor Ice Ball Falls??? video
From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:17:17 -0600 Message-ID: <6A76884BC3E4449A9470F2041891FAEB_at_ATARIENGINE2> Dirk, List, Better called megacryometeors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacryometeor The concept of megacryometeors advanced by Jes?s Mart?nez-Fr?as is widely disputed, however. Terrestial in origin. Weights up to 50 kg. have been recorded. Isotopically identical to surface waters in the region (broadly defined), he says. Morphologically, this looks like a hailstone with many agglomerative "fingers." Megacryometeors (or what are believed to be megacryometeors) are often smooth. My buddy Bill Occam says it's easier to believe it fell from an airplane (water tank leak?) or is the Mother of all Hailstones... The problem with literal "ice meteors" is that even a 10 metre ice chunk would only survive for a few years (less than ten) before subliming away entirely. (Meteorite Quarterly: November 2006, 12(4), 17 - 19) Sterling K. Webb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 3:59 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Moroc Meteor Ice Ball Falls??? video > List, > It has been reported that a "mega ice meteor" fell in Moroc. Fact or > fishy? Video included with pics. > > http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/12/fact-or-fiction-mega-ice-meteor-falls.html > > Dirk Ross...Tokyo > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Wed 26 Dec 2012 06:17:17 PM PST |
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