[meteorite-list] Meteor Impacts: Life's Jump Starter?

2005-08-08 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/05-25.htm Geological Society of America News Release 8 August 2005 GSA Release No. 05-25 Contact: Ann Cairns, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director - Communications and Marketing (303) 357-1056, fax 303-357-1074 Meteor Impacts: Life's Jump Starter? Meteor impacts are

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor Impacts: Life's Jump Starter?

2005-08-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All Comets were all the rage in the late XVIIth century, Haley and all that. When the great Isaac Newton, smartest and craziest of them all, realize that comets were indeed celestial bodies in orbits, it took him about 2 seconds to realize that the Earth must have had head-on collisions