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. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list