AL wrote:
Years ago on the list we had the hot/cold debate. People have
pointed out a number of exceptions of meteorites being hot.
01) The Binningup meteorite was recovered within a few minutes
of the fall and was reported to have been warm to the touch.
02) Cabin Creek: Three hours
Warm is one thing- it is quite easy for a mass in space at around 1 AU to be
warm- it is sitting in full sunlight, after all, and has no efficient way to
get rid of heat. But I'm not buying stories about stones on the ground being
incandescent, or even too hot to touch. Obviously, cool is most
Hi Chris and all,
I agree with you on the red hot, white hot stories. I don't go along
with those. The study of meteorites is the study of un-differentiated
material, though various degrees of differentiation can tell the solar
system story better. If meteorites were heated to that extreme
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