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From: "giovannisostero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "sterling_k_webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "meteorite-list"
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 1:33 PM
Subject:
exact
formula:
T = [R/sigma*(a/e)*(areacrosssec/areatot)*(1/R^2)]^(1/4)
and substituded the differewnt absorptivities and emissivities...presto, a
solar meteorite thermometer. You can graph them too and it is easy to look
at, but I couldn't figure out how to graph in plain text for t
Of course, it that keeps up, there is no iron meteorite left!
Despite the high thermal conductivity of iron, the
heat does most of its work on the exterior, no matter
how intense. I don't disagree with your conclusion that
irons can be (may mostly be) warm, but I doubt that they
can be
outh of South Africa (the optimal mass
distribution of the continents we've got), there's
just not enough out-of-balance torque to do the
job now.
Good thing, most likely.
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi, List,
I second the motion. I'd completely forgotten
those micro "tektite-like" objects. What were they?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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r if Yokum's gadget will find water? I will say
this for the expensive "dowsed" well, though: it was
really good water.
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ulums and by physical contact with significant objects.
There are so many varieties of dowsing-descended pseudoscience
that there's not room for all of them here.
They all have one thing in common: a 100% Bunk content.
Sterling K. Webb
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Newfound Planet Has Earth-Like Orbit
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070802_redgiant_planet.html
A planet outside our solar system with a year
roughly equal to Earth's has been discovered
around a dying, red giant star.
Only about 10 red giant stars are known to
harbor planets; the n
'Extreme Analytical Chemistry' Will Help Unravel Mars' Mysteries
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070802181934.htm
A nice press release / news story from Tufts U. about the
chemical analysis instruments on the Phoenix Mars Lander.
S
e to insure continued publication in
Campbell's magazine!
It's a hard line to define: if you're too close-minded,
nothing gets in; if you're too open-minded, your brain
falls out!
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igher altitude (if that happens above 34 kilometers)
or a lower altitude (if that happens above 34 kilometers) than
it would in the Earth's atmosphere, and have a correspondingly
longer or shorter "dark fall" (but a much slower fall due to the
lesse
ll part of the universal program
to keep the poor ignorant, too. Not so l'Observatoire de Paris!
Vive le Revolution!
Élas! There is no way to determine from the photo the
altitude at which the meteor burns. You need two cameras
for that.
S
urg Church Rd.
Petersburg, KY 41080
http://www.creationmuseum.org/
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From: "MARK BOSTICK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Thursday, August
.
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From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List"
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Three-Ton Meteorite Stolen in Rus
hat's a while from now, but it's bigger than Apophis
and denser. It would definitely leave a mark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(29075)_1950_DA
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From: "Ron Ba
h an old fall, there may be (are) collected pieces whose
present owner does not know what they are. Almost two centuries
for pieces to diffuse through collections allows for a lot of spread.
And there were 330 lbs. to start with (Yale says 350
ation. These two are from the first
three examined closely, which suggests the rest of the list may
well contain a lot more small basaltic bodies from as-yet-unknown
differentiated parent bodies that were totally disrupted
the time to have discovered the wreckage of an
alien spacecraft during the expedition.
Scientists continue to argue over the cause of the explosion, which
flattened over 2,000 square kilometres (800 square miles) of Siberian
forest.
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d the "small-body" theory.
And, once you got a monstrous amount of data (by going
there probably), you could match basaltic fragments with
their cores by comparing the REE abundances in the irons
with the iron in the basalts...
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rticle discusses the very question you asked,
how to fine and coarse irons in the same core.
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To:
Sent: Wedne
open
to argument and amenable to discussion. What's your opinion?
I'm not being sarcastic when I say that. I'm just saying,
let's talk about the topic, and not the person.
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r end!
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:07 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-related Article with audio link
http://
Hi, All,
Not everybody likes this idea... This headline on another
report on the same paper reads: Claims of Martian Life Called 'Bogus'!
http://www.space.com/news/070823_mars_life.html
Everybody calm down. Let's just go there and find out.
S
the damage to the pig in detail.
[Insert artist's rendition of perforated pig falling into
death spiral with lots of red splatter.]
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Rob McCafferty" &
Hi, All,
With the Phoenix Lander headed for Martian
permafrost territory, this is suddenly more interesting.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2733009920070827?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&sp=true
Ancient bacteria could point to life on Mars: Study
LONDON (Reuters) - Ancient bact
usand Earth-like
planets and found nobody more interesting than a
coral polyp or a tiny hydra or jellyfish, I'd be a little
disappointed. The potential for conversation is...
limited.
You know?
Sterling K. Webb
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13jun_lunarsporadic.html
and December 22, 2005:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/22dec_lunartaurid.htm
and November, 1999:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/leonids_crash_000621.html
Sterling K. Webb
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live with even shorter
Drivel Segments.)
It would mean the end of the internet, though....
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, Augu
Obviously, no gravitational influence great enough to separate
two adjacent rocks in a short period of time could exist for a
"meteoroid stream," or pretty soon --- No Stream! The key to
having meteoroid streams at all is
up to
Holbrook and Sikhote-Alin).
Is it a Coin, a Metal, a Token, a Beanie Baby?
No. It's a Collectable.
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ut 575 pounds!
That could be cumbersome to use, especially in the field.
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To:
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:33 PM
Hi, All,
More information about the LuckyCam and
a greater variety of pictures are available at:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/LI_Press_Releases_0807.htm
and
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/index.htm
Sterling K. Webb
nting to a different
patch of sky... Two perturbers are harder to swallow than
one. I'll wait for a picture of Sol b.
There is a big and delicate problem with all the "nearby
star" proposals --- it has to be big enough to make the comets
twitchy but NOT big enough to leave gravit
etween 3.2 billion years
ago and 600 million years ago. In fact, in a "static" solar
system (one which produces no "new" big impactors),
the impact rate curve should just tail away to the right
exponentially and disappear. I see no "spike-like" traces
of
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> Mrs. Webb wrote:
> "Hi, Paul, EP, List,"
That's => Mr. <= Webb.
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ction. But few would have been willing to
predict they would be effectively functional in their
thirteenth "lifetime"!
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=111921
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clearly a spurious assemblage and not in
any way representative of the 70y BP era, as has been claimed
on the basis of confused and contradictory evidence and the
vague recollections of the present occupants.
Fiedelian logic triumphs.
#3 through #147
I could mak
http://web.eps.utk.edu/ifsg_files/EarthPanoramas.htm
More panoramic views of Lonar (click each to enlarge) at:
http://ratheesh.livejournal.com/2006/04/03/
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Ron Baalk
ronomers call it "The Local Bubble."
We're not experiencing any storm of bonbardments; the local
ice age is in a mild interlude --- Gee! Everything is just perfect!
Like everyone who has grown up in a really nice neighborhood,
we think the outside world, too, is a "nice" plac
Whoops! A correction! I said:
> the Sun's orbit... "reasonably" circular,
> with an eccentricity greater than 0.70
I meant a "circularity" greater than 0.70,
which is an eccentricity less than 0.30.
Is that "dys-numericy" (as opposed
to
t they are rare.
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From: "Jason Utas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite-list"
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Exp
t [is] much more likely to involve an iron
parent..."
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From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite-list"
Sent: Thursday, September
o hypothesize on
its reality. I guess those reporters can really get to you.
It's going to be a while before it gets sorted out. Until we
know the story, try not to breathe any of the radioactive
sulfurous gas from the boiling liquid in the bottom of
your craters...
Sterling K. Webb
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t; is real, you can add it
(at 13.5 meters) to your list!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Experts Skeptical of P
buy a river cobble from Outer Space, or Slag
from the Far Side of Saturn...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "David & Kitt Deyarmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1
ers matter, guys. Useful fundamental
data going to waste.
Here's an interesting article of fundamental research
on impact carried out in a high-tech sandbox:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:7oX3prQ_bsAJ:www.nature.c
he terrestrial contamination of the sample at the
moment of impact."
Thanks to Piper Hollier, who passed me this link.
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAoizLPfvik
Pretty sure the little flat rocks are local stone blasted
out of the crater/pit
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issue, the "black mat" layer took a long time to deposit,
hence could hardly be itself a marker of an impact, which
is a sudden event. Well, this press release makes clear that
the various ET markers of an event were all found UNDER
the black mat layer.
That, at least, makes more sens
out.
A lot like urban renewal... The moving globs represent a major
hazard nobody seems to worry about.
Yes, what we need: one more thing to worry about...
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d of course, there's argument about the relationship
between sunlight and Earth temperature, too. Maybe only
3 deg. So, lose 10% of your light, drop 30 degrees? Not
a happy notion.)
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The NASA video of the Dawn launch is
available at YouTube. 10 minutes in length.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncLLVj1qMC8
The video recut with inspirational music is
also to be found on YouTube, of course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtwUdKgZqXs
Not bad.
Sterling K. Webb
s and small fast objects. However,
the majority of the indicators is that this was a high energy event,
more than enough to have completely vaporized the impactor
(exceot for the spalls).
>From this most recent email of Mike's and the analysis above, I
would estimate this impactor to be a
The name of the village closest to the
crater site is CARANCAS, not Carnacas.
Under the naming convention, the nearest
named human settlement would end up
as the name of the meteorite when all the
dust settles, no?
Let's all practice: CA - RAN - CAS.
Sterling K.
h velocity to get all the
way to the surface.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list]
"
They will use scuba divers?
Well, in a few months time, the crater will be gone,
everybody will stop pestering them, and the Geological,
Mining and Metallurgical Institute can go back to its siesta!
Or perhaps, he too is a victim of journalistic "understan
10%
Pyroxene 210%
Opaque minerals total about 20% and include:
Kamacite 15%
Troilite 5%
Cromite traces
Native Cu traces
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orites is a shady quasi-legal affair, as there
is much emphasis on the fact that Mike buys and sells them.
I wish I knew what "cazameteoritos" means but the online
translator won't translate it (nor the word "caza&
Gaos and Gams!
Steve's Specialties!
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite List"
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:06 PM
Subje
tor in a language
where your knowledge is sketchy (like mine of Spanish).
I think that, in Mike's case, "Meteorite Chaser"
is closer to the mark! A lot of hunters sit and wait,
something he seems to hardly get a chance to d
ackside.
That meteorite is dust. No matter what it massed,
there's nothing in that mudpit.
And it's OK with me if I'm wrong and somebody
winches a ton or two of meteorite out of the mud; it
would be a great day. But... don't hold your breath.
Sterling K. Webb
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;big one" down
there in the crater bottom, but so was Barringer, absolutely
convinced that there was a fortune in nickel-iron in the deep
basement rock of his crater. It's a dream that's easy to catch
and hard to give up. We'll see if the Peruvians come up with
anything.
I
ere anybody even
remotely like us within 100 light years, they would look
exactly the same to us. And there isn't any such radio
source --- noisy, multi-banded, bright --- anywhere.
Sterling K. Webb
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t flopping down unconscious when you get there.
You can also use it to calculate the density of air
at any altitude, since pressure and density are just two
ways of counting the number of molecules in a cube
of air.
More than you ever wanted to know, right?
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi, Paul, List,
I just posted:
> The air in it weighs 14.7 pounds if you start
> at sea level, or 1200 grams...
Wrong!
Grabbing numbers from a column of numbers,
in a hurry, whoops! 1033 grams per sq. cm. is
sea level atmospheric pressure in metric.
The 1200 gram figure is the weight of a cubic
y of it is blocks of
country stone. I would say that 75% of the
crater ejecta is shattered rocky strata. (The
Peruvian sources say it is mostly Cenozoic
limestone.) Big blocks of stone, and dirt a
minority component. This was NOT a "wet
soil" so
I've done
before):
"There was a strong explosion that was felt up to
Desaguadero city 20 km from the impact site. Some window
glasses of the Local Health Center (at 1 km from the site)
were broken."
An impact that was felt 20 kilometers away does not sound
like "fr
as intended
to do, which could be just about anything,
including format your HD."
That's what my favorite expert said. And
I see RG's posted another with an attachment.
I recommend destruction. And block him.
Sterling K. Webb
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ript? "A script is
basicly a program, and if your e-mail client
opens it, it'll do whatever it was intended
to do, which could be just about anything,
including format your HD."
That's what my favorite expert said. And
I see RG's posted another with an attachment.
I recomm
Thaddeus,
"Dollars in their thongs..."
Is that a scholarly reference?
Literary, perhaps?
Do you have Polaroids?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Thaddeus Besedin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, Octobe
sland Treasure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island
> "may a well oriented Venisian grace the mantel above
your hearth." I have a hearth and I have a mantel; now all
I need is the Rock.
Sterling K. Webb
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an email that requests to
be removed. Go the Meteorite Central
website and unsubscribe yourself. That's
the only way to be removed from the List
and the only thing you could do that would
make anyone believe that's what you want.
6. Bon Voyage!
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi, E.P., List,
E.P. writes:
> ...After this the Good Mind created the first man and
> woman at the Buffalo Lick...may be identified with
> Big (Salt) Lick, just to the south of... Cincinnati, Ohio...
This would put the spot where Humanity was created
right on the site (or within a very few miles
Doug,
> I am in sort of a rush since today is Monze Day.
Are you flying to Monze for Lwiindi or just
having your own New World Lwiindi? Whichever,
I wish you much rain and bounteous maize! But,
aren't we in the wrong axial hemisphere?
Sterling
of
signal-blocking water. Rats!
Plan B?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Arizona Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ; "Piper R.W. Hollier"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 06
Minister, and their phone and fax numbers.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "drtanuki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:18 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Peru INGEMMET contac
energy, about 18,000 joules per gram of rock, which
is the kinetic energy of an impact at 6000 meters per
second.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "ensoramanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sa
n (ablated) point would bore into the ground
at tremendous speed. That's the ballistic parameter. We wanted the
Mercury capsule to SLOW DOWN. If we wanted it to make a big
crater, it would have looked like the Bell X-1 without wings.
All it takes to get any meteoroid to the ground
sm to
the local population."
Apparently we can add to the list of factors working
against any timely recovery of material from the crater
bureaucratic in-fighting, never a rapid process.
Sterling K. Webb
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erers
and journeymen have apprentices? Somebody's got
to do the scut work! If no scientist wants to work
them up, put'em on eBay: "Carancas Ejecta Blanket
Sample, Meteorite Dust and Particles, 50 grams."
Sterling K. Webb
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! They
all have to draw their energy from the impact -- everybody
wants a piece of the action.
The truth or folly of all this analysis will become clear
when (and if) the Instituto Astrofisica successfully excavates
the crater, and I will either be dining on c
.
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incorporates a large amount of
chemically bound iron would not appear so "blanco."
In some photos the meteorite doesn't appear so white,
so perhaps it's an exposure control effect introduced
by the photographer.
Perfectly in character fo
Back on Oct. 3, Elton (Mr EMan) posted
saying that the "shock veins" in Carancas
were not shock veins but slickensides, and
cited his reasons for thinking so.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTE
Hi,
A search of the user name on eBay US
site turns up this less than detailed listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3810&item=300158570494
Sterling K. Webb
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From: &quo
k is their description of impact melt, and is
7-8% "glasses." I'm not sure what they mean by "glasses,"
but to me it says that this rock has had a rough life history,
a hot time in the old solar system...
Please, Listo-Petrologists, comment!
Sterling K. Webb
x27;re keeping score, the Bolivians (unlike the Peruvians)
got the Universal Time of the event right.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "K. Ohtsuka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, Oct
Hi,
> This is beneath you...
The logical flaw here is that is any "beneath" beneath
the pseudonomynous Randall-of-the-many-names.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Michael L Blood" <[EMAIL PR
easily reaches and far exceeds these temperatures.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "mckinney trammell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:56 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list]
aterials, reflected
waves, and a long list of modifiers, including the
unknown efficiency of kinetic energy conversion
in this impact, so these estimates above have a
potential 2-fold error in distance.]
Sterling K. Webb
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaton
Crash a few bolides!
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Jan Hattenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-li
y 40-foot stone balls lying around
Carancas? Maybe it rolled off...
The only thing I can figure is that the sheer romantic
lure of a monster meteorite waiting to be discovered and
raised from the dark depths of the crater overwhelms
the
tried to point out
to the local authorities. You can only do what you can do.
It's been almost a month. I wonder how long it will take the
Peruvians to "mobilize"?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: &q
crater,
the presence of highly shocked minerals (coesite), signs
of a central uplift (if it's big enough to have one). And,
an impact that produced vulcanism would be obliterated
by the lavas it released, so proving that is kind of a problem.
Good hunting!
Sterling K. Webb
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"crater" has both high and
low areas close to each other. The elevations are
complex and hard to interpret. The closer I zoom
in, the less like a relict crater it looks to me.
Sterling K. Webb
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t shock vein or slickenside.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "meteorite list"
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list]
force. Whether the event was equivalent to
1 ton of TNT, 5 tons (seismic reading), or 15-20 tons (as
Peter Brown suggests) doesn't matter if they're that weak.
Yes, this IS a crater worthy of study. And with every
passing day, that seems less and less likely to happen.
Sterlin
This in an article about
investors that were still scheming to recover the "millions
of tons" of precious meteorite buried under the crater.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: <
of the idea that a "ten-ton monster" is hiding
in the Carancas crater. The URL's a picture of a
ten-meter crater (OK, pit) with a ten ton impactor
sitting in it. Does it look to you like it's hiding? I think
we'd have noticed
st or big
and moving slow. An obvious relict multi-ton meteorite,
Brown's "ten-ton monster," would, but I don't see one.
A crater this size isn't going to produce the flashy stuff
that big craters do. And an impact event tends to erase its
own history and delete its own dat
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