> Well, ya'll got my imagination a'churnin' again. Whatta Whopper of > a Concept. And who's to say that it couldn't happen. It's really just a > matter of scale and chance. Long odds, granted, but we have already > found stranger surprises in this old universe. I can almost smell the > headlines now ... REUTERS: 05.06.04, 06:30 AM ET Scientists Using > Hubble Telescope Take Pictures of Humongous Collision of Giant > Diamond Asteroid and Huge Gold Nugget Asteroid...
Ahem ..., Subjectf: Report - Gold Meteorites Bombarded Young Planet Earth Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:48:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/space_gold_000726.html Report: Gold Meteorites Bombarded Young Planet Earth (By Lee Siegel, 26 July 2000) Even if all marriages are not made in heaven, the wedding rings may come from outer space. A new study suggests that when Earth was born, internal processes within a subterranean ocean of molten rock could not have produced the known abundance of gold, platinum, palladium and other so-called "iron-loving" elements. So the findings support a competing theory that a barrage of gargantuan meteorites coated Earth with a veneer relatively rich in gold and related elements. The bombard- ment purportedly happened after the planet formed, and the iron-rich core had separated from the silicate-rich mantle. Best (golden) wishes, Bernd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
