Geoff, Excuse my piggybacking. I'm unable to post directly.
Is our current information sufficient to completely rule out the existence of a ring system for EARTH?
Reading Harry McSween's "Stardust to Planets" brought back memories of John Glenn's first suborbital flight. Anyone my age or there abouts remembers his exclaiming at one point about "firefly like particles streaming past his capsule", a comment that as far as I know was never publically addressed.
The fact that rings exist in relation to so many of the planets which unlike Saturn, defied observation until relatively recently, gives me pause.
Excuse my curiosity if it lacks sophistication. As a recent amateur meteoricist, I cannot dampen my enthusiasm for all the potential connections no matter how far fetched and unfounded they may be. An ring system consisting of extremely fine, yet undetected, particles could provide a constant source of dibris which slowed by contact with the atmosphere eventually deccelerates and plummet to earth, a constant source of "IPDP" [inter or intra].
My hope is that my recent memberships allows the priveledge of asking these kinds questions and getting responses from reliable sources. A decisive no with some short explaination is as welcome as any other answer for it at least acknowledges a question.
Thank you for your time and consideration in advance.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- From: "Notkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Interesting Meteorite Science Article
Dear Listees:
Greetings from sunny Tucson.
I'd like to draw your attention to an extremely interesting meteorite science/biology crossover article in the current online issue of Bio Science News:
http://www.biosciencenews.netfirms.com/news_stories/8802_33-2005.htm
Regards to all,
Geoff N. www.notkin.net www.paleozoic.org
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