Chris I beg to differ with you as personal experience during a very active
Persid shower in the late 80's or early 90's produced a sterling[S] quantity
of particles which jumped from beneath the water to a magnet and lent
themselves to a magnificent show under a hand lens.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls
Meteoritic dust or cosmic dust: put a flat white
plastic pan or small "splash pool" of water out away
from the trees on the peak night of a meteor shower,
and in the morning you will be rewarded with a black
dust on the bottom of the pool...
Have you actually done this? Because the sort of micron-scale dust
produced by meteors has an atmospheric lifetime measured in months. While
there's certainly meteor dust falling all the time, you won't find any in
the morning from the previous night's shower.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mike Groetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite List"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls
Hi, Mike, List,
The Seller believes this material to be "Jurassic"
in origin because he finds it in sand produced from
Jurassic strata, but while he's wrong about that, he
may be right about it being meteoritic!
When a meteorite ablates in the atmosphere, the
majority of its mass is turned into a dust of tiny fused
droplets. Eventually, that meteoritic dust will fall to
earth; some will land on water, sink to the stream and
lake bottoms and become incorporated in the sand
(or mud).
Meteoritic dust or cosmic dust: put a flat white
plastic pan or small "splash pool" of water out away
from the trees on the peak night of a meteor shower,
and in the morning you will be rewarded with a black
dust on the bottom of the pool, that could well be
interpreted as:
"Meteorite balls, glass balls, zircons, garnet, magnetite
and some other minerals... The balls are magnetite balls.
Somethimes with the white transparents glass balls you
can find some green balls that look like moldavite or
olivina fused samples..."
Much more fun to collect your own than to
buy it on eBay, though.
Sterling K. Webb
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