Thanks for the quick reply Mike. I heard that up to three quarters of the
recovered material was dust so that seems to fit.
Cheers,
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeff Kuyken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas article
At least 5 to 6 kilos was dust, I know of about 4
kilos of fragments.
Mike
--- Jeff Kuyken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Mike & all. Is there any idea how much of that
~10kgs was in the dust
form? I heard that there was more dust than decent
fragments but don't know
if that's true.
Cheers,
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas
article
> Yeah, like most reporters, they always mess things
up.
> I told them that a total of ~10 kilos was
recovered.
> mike
>
>
> --- Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hey, Mike, did you know that you and your team of
>> poachers recovered 10 kilos of
>> Carancas?
>>
>>
>
http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2008/04/04/Features/Professor.Solves.A.Meteor.Mystery-3304236.shtml
>>
>> Professor solves a meteor mystery
>> By: Chaz Firestone
>> Posted: 4/4/08
>> Last September, something strange landed near the
>> rural Peruvian village of
>> Carancas. Two months later, so did Peter Schultz.
>>
>> One was an extraterrestrial fireball that struck
the
>> Earth at 10,000 miles per
>> hour, formed a bubbling crater nearly 50 feet
wide
>> and afflicted local villagers
>> and livestock with a mysterious illness. The
other
>> is the Brown geologist who
>> may have figured out why.
>>
>> The fiery mass shot across the morning sky
bursting
>> and crackling like
>> fireworks, villagers said after the Sept. 15
impact.
>> An explosive crash tossed
>> nearby locals to the ground, shattered windows
one
>> kilometer away and kicked up
>> a massive dust cloud, covering one man from head
to
>> toe in a fine white powder.
>> Many thought the streaking fireball - brighter
than
>> the sun, by some accounts -
>> was an aerial attack from neighboring Chile.
>>
>> Curious shepherds and farmers approached the
crash
>> site to find a smoking crater
>> reminiscent of a Hollywood film, laden with rocks
>> and stirring with bubbling
>> water that emitted a foul vapor. But curiosity
>> turned to fear when unexplained
>> symptoms began to crop up in Carancas: headaches,
>> vomiting and skin lesions
>> struck more than 150 villagers, Peru's Ministry
of
>> Health stated days later.
>> Locals reported that their animals lost their
>> appetites and bled from their
>> noses. Children were restless and cried through
the
>> night.
>>
>> But according to Schultz, the professor of
>> geological sciences who visited the
>> site last December, the true mystery in Carancas
is
>> how any of this happened in
>> the first place.
>>
>> Sophisticated theory and conventional wisdom have
>> long agreed that most meteors
>> break into fragments and fizzle out before they
can
>> reach the Earth's surface.
>> Even those large and durable enough to make it
>> through the atmosphere hit the
>> ground as ghosts of their former selves,
"plopping
>> out of the sky and forming a
>> bullet hole in the Earth," Schultz said. "This
>> meteor crashed into the Earth at
>> three kilometers per second, exploded and buried
>> itself into the ground."
>>
>> Last month, Schultz delivered a highly
anticipated
>> lecture at the 39th Lunar and
>> Planetary Science Conference in League City,
Texas.
>> And if he's right, the bold
>> theory he proposed there may shake loose a "gut
>> response" entrenched within the
>> geological, physical and astronomical sciences:
>> "Carancas simply should not have
>> happened."
>>
>>
>>
>> A Web of speculation
>>
>> The handful of shepherds who happened to lead
their
>> Alpaca herds near the arroyo
>> that day may have been the first humans ever to
>> witness an explosive meteor
>> impact. But the rest of the world quickly got its
>> chance, if vicariously,
>> through a flurry of activity in the blogosphere.
>>
>> Hundreds of scientists, journalists and
captivated
>> amateurs weighed in on the
>> bizarre events as they unfolded, offering scores
of
>> pet theories and radically
>> revising them as more information streamed in
from
>> Peru.
>>
>> Pravda, a Russian online newspaper born out of a
>> print version run by the
>> country's former Communist Party, ran the
headline
>> "American spy satellite
>> downed in Peru as U.S. nuclear attack on Iran
>> thwarted" five days after the
>> impact. The story attributes the villagers'
illness
>> to radiation poisoning from
>> the satellite's plutonium power generator.
>>
>> Other proposed explanations were less
sensational.
>> Nevadan wildlife biologist
>> and amateur geologist David Syzdek wrote a Sept.
18
>> blog post titled "Meteorite
>> strike in Peru gassing villagers? Maybe not." In
it,
>> he proposed that a mud
>> volcano producing toxic gases was responsible for
>> both the illness and the
>> crater.
>>
>> "The Andes are very active geologically so I
think
>> there is a good possibility
>> that this crater was caused by an outburst of
>> geothermal activity," he wrote.
>>
>> As for the blinding light shooting across the
sky,
>> Syzdek chalked it up to
>> coincidence.
>>
>> "Fireballs are quite common," he wrote. "One
>> possible scenario is that the
>> people who saw the fireball just happened on a
>> recently formed mud volcano while
>> they were out looking for the fireball impact
site."
>>
>> Though Pravda and Syzdek drew radically different
>> conclusions from the reports,
>> what they shared with each other, many bloggers
and
>> even some scientists was a
>> healthy skepticism about reports coming out of
Peru.
>> Pravda and Syzdek both
>> pointed out in their posts that an explosion
>> powerful enough to create such a
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