-----Forwarded Message----- >From: countde...@earthlink.net >Sent: Nov 19, 2009 1:51 PM >To: Michael Fowler <mqfow...@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 <mqfow...@mac.com> >>Sent: Nov 19, 2009 1:38 PM >>To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >>Cc: Michael Fowler <mqfow...@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@meteoritecentral.com >>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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