Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-14 Thread tracy latimer
a strewnfield? I know, I know too many questions with no theory. Tracy Latimer From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:30:26 -0600 CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments Hi

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-13 Thread tracy latimer
about the Peru crater as well, and was happy to have been proven wrong!) Tracy Latimer From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:27:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Utas
to have been proven wrong!) Tracy Latimer From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:27:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:23:33 -0800 (PST), you wrote

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:41:54 +, you wrote: Playing Devil's advocate for a moment, is there a chance the author is fudging the findings? Could the proposed results be replicated by, say, firing a shotgun shell full of coarse iron filings at a tusk, like using paper from the appropriate

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry
: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:41:54 +, you wrote: Playing Devil's advocate for a moment, is there a chance the author

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
- - Original Message - From: tracy latimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered withMeteorite Fragments I

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:30:26 -0600, you wrote: Well, I knew we were going to get back to those mammoth teeth... How about the history of the whole crazy thing? Who is Richard B. Firestone? I thought this sounded like the same song, different day! Anyway, his fitting the fragged tusks data into

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Utas
@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered withMeteorite Fragments I also agree. Any airburst or cratering event sufficiently energetic to create Meteor-Crater-esque iron spherules and fire them, still smoking

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:30:26 -0600, you wrote: And, Firestone has a popular-market book out now (of course): http://www.amazon.com/Cycle-Cosmic-Catastrophes-Stone-Age-Changed/dp/1591430615 Hm. Recommended by the people that bought his book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743491904/

[meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-12 Thread Ron Baalke
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7130014.stm Great beasts peppered from space By Jonathan Amos BBC News December 11, 2007 Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space. Eight tusks

Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

2007-12-12 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:23:33 -0800 (PST), you wrote: Eight tusks dating to some 35,000 years ago all show signs of having being peppered with meteorite fragments. snip The mammoth and bison remains all display small (about 2-3mm in size) perforations. Raised, burnt surface rings trace the