] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to
Titan(doubts)
Hi, List, Mike
You've put your finger on many of the problems
of getting a rock off a planet and launched into space.
When it was first determined that Martian meteorites
WERE Martian, there were choruses of no way!
No impact model anticipates
] On Behalf Of Mike
Fowler
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 5:18 PM
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Cc: Mike Fowler
Subject: [meteorite-list] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to Titan
(doubts)
He says only boulders at least 3 metres across could punch out through
the Earth's atmosphere and escape
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 11:18 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to Titan
(doubts)
He says only boulders at least 3
He says only boulders at least 3 metres across could punch out through
the Earth's atmosphere and escape the planet's gravity, and that only
extremely powerful impacts could achieve this. The cause of such
impacts
would be comets or asteroids between 10 and 50 kilometres wide,
Gladman
told
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