Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux

2005-10-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Göran, Axel, List! Right you are, Göran. I screwed up the calculation. It was too late for me too :-} It's probably always too late for me... The surface area of the Earth is 500,000,000 square KILOMETERS, not square meters, and half is 2.5 x 10^14 m^2! You're using the

RE: [meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux

2005-10-31 Thread Axel Emmermann
oktober 2005 20:49 Aan: Axel Emmermann CC: Meteorite List Onderwerp: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux Hi, Axel, List, Hitting the atmosphere at very high speeds generates a plasma of very high temperature. Normal re-entry plasma temps are 3000 degrees for carefully

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux

2005-10-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zondag 30 oktober 2005 2:05 Aan: Axel Emmermann; Meteorite List Onderwerp: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux Hi, Axel, The dynamics of the situation are such that increasing the speed of an incoming object in an attempt to penetrate

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux

2005-10-30 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:49:16 -0600, Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting (to me, anyway) is the fact that the heavy high speed nuclei have experienced so much relativistic increase in mass that a nuclei whose weight is a laughable concept will bulk up until it weighs as much

[meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux

2005-10-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Darren, Marco, Mark, List Being really bored recently, I emailed Richard B. Firestone at Berkeley, Lawrence's Radiation Lab, #1 Cyclotron Road (yeah, that's his real address!) the following email. To: Richard B. Firestone Re: Disputed Cometary Hypothesis Reading this press

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux

2005-10-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
; Meteorite List; Marco Langbroek; MarkF; Paul H Onderwerp: [meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux Hi, Darren, Marco, Mark, List Being really bored recently, I emailed Richard B. Firestone at Berkeley, Lawrence's Radiation Lab, #1 Cyclotron Road (yeah, that's his real address