The cheap way to do this would be to post and hand out color flyers in Arabic to the locals showing what Nakhla looks like along with a reward and contact information, perhaps using a reputable Egyptian academic or mineral dealer as a contact, perhaps not...
it�s cheaper than "Mars Sample Return", or whatever.. just my thoughts - ep --- Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hello List, I have a question! There is a lot of > arguing about > >this dog thing! If there is any validity at all to > Ron Baalke's > >theory, there could be one big strewn field between > El Nakhla and > >Denshal. > > Ah, someone who sees the true light. I've already > pointed > out on several occassions on the possibility of a > large > Nakhla strewn field. If a dog was hit in Denshal, > 33 km from El Nakhla, then that would indicate a > large > strewnfield between the two. As far as I know, Hume > nor anyone else > knowledgable of meteorites have looked for > meteorites in Denshal > or anywhere between El Nakhla and Denshal. Hume > focused his > meteorite collecting only within the confines of El > Nakhla. > Had Hume searched for meteorites outside the Nakhla > district, he would > have undoubtedly found more meteorites, particularly > along the > flight path axis. That conclusion is based soley on > the strewnfield > data that Hume had collected. There is physical > evidence that > indicates the Nakhla strewnfield was indeed large. > > Hume did carefully document where each meteorite > fragment in El Nakhla were > found. He also documented the direction of the > meteorite fall, and noted > that the farthest distance between the fragments was > 4.5 km. > > As a sidenote, the Nakhla district is also 4.5 km > long. > Hume focused his search on meteorites found by the > local inhabitants, > and there is no record of him or any of his > colleagues canvassing > the area outside of El Nakhla. > > Now comes the real interesting part. > As you know, a strewn field is an ellipse with its > long axis > along the direction of flight. The 4.5 km distance > that Hume documented > is not along the flight of path, but surprisingly, > is instead perpendicular > to the flight path. This indicates that Hume had > documented > just a small cross section of the true strewnfield. > In other words, the > Nakhla strewnfield ellipse is at least 4.5 km WIDE, > and probably wider, > as Hume did not search outside of El Nakhla. More > importantly, the strewnfield's > long axis along its flight path would be consideraly > longer than its > 4.5 km width. The true Nakhla strewnfield would > extend out in both directions > along the flight path, into the nearby lake in one > direction, and out towards Denshal in the other > direction. The locations > of the endpoints of the strewnfield are not known, > but there > are indications that the strewnfield extends out > from El Nakhla to Denshal. > Denshal falls along the flight path 33 km downstream > from El Nakhla. > The were reports that people witnessed the Nakhla > meteorite fall in Denshal, including the report > of a meteorite hitting a dog in Denshal. A > meteorite > fragment was produced from Denshal, which is now > lost, > but its description matched that of the Nakhla > meteorite. > > The dog story itself of itself is of > little relevance, other than it supports that the > Nakhla strewnfield > is much larger than originally thought. > > Ron Baalke > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
