[meteorite-list] Temperature of meteorites - Correction of typo

2010-11-24 Thread bernd . pauli
and that the *hand had kept* that smell for two days. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Temperature of meteorites - Correction of typo

2010-11-24 Thread almitt2
Greetings, Hands down, meteorites are cold when they land :-) Apollo Astronauts reported the smell of gun powder from the moon dust. Perhaps many bodies in the solar system have that smell. Falling through the atmosphere should remove the regolith though, except where it is cemented in from