Chris writes: "And that much energy shouldn't leave much of the original material larger than dust."
Hi Pete and List, In other words, the impacting meteoroid would have had to have a mass big enough to reach the ground at cosmic velocity - impossible for small pieces like the Tamedaght stones! This would take an iron like the Hoba to survive such deceleration forces. But even the Hoba iron seems to have landed rather "smoothly". So something like the Canyon Diablo impactor is necessary to yield the results described by Aziz Habibi. My two Euro-cents, Bernd To: [email protected] [email protected] ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
