On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:52:12 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Cosmic "rays" are typically nuclear particles, simply going soooooo fast >after probable ejection from supernovas elsewhere, that each "ray" a.k.a. >particle, packs a tremendous whallop. The most powerful cosmic "ray" on >record, I >believe, (might be a proton or probably a nucleus of something larger) with >the same energy as pitched 100 mph (160 km/hr) fastball (baseball)! That an
I remembered a good Scientific American article on this from a few years back, and googled up a PDF of it: http://hires.phys.columbia.edu/papers/croninSciAm.pdf ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
