On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:54:57 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Is it indeed possible that a mass of say 3-7 tons >could cause such intense heat on impact? We think that >the compression of the soil, in an instant to many >meteors deep could also cause intense heating. >Every person we interviewed decribed boiling water, >lots of steam, and horrible sulfer type smell. The
What I wonder is if maybe the pressure/heat could have caused dissolved gases to bubble out from the water? So it might not have been at a boiling temperature, but still bubbling/steaming? Too bad we don't have samples of the groundwater and soil from the area to see if there is anything weird/extensively poluted about it. Also odd, of course, is a fraglie, porus stone as you describe surviving to the ground big enough and fast enough to make the crater. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
