Piper et al.,
Without implying that ALL reports of sulphurous smells are necessarily
unreliable, I do urge caution.
Over my career of checking alleged Dutch new meteorite falls (all meteorwrongs!)
there have been a number of cases where people reported to me sulphurous
smells when
Hi Marco:
The short lived isotopes decayed 4.5 - 4.6 or so billion years ago,
and only warmed the acreeted asteroid at that time. They are but a
distant memory when the meteorite falls here on earth today.
As for hot rocks. I found Buzzard coulee specimens in the spring time
2009. The ones that
Marco:
Ditto that! Last summer I was photographing some crusted Zag in the full
sun when it was 95 degrees out. I was distracted for four or five minutes,
when I came back the meteorites were so hot you could barely hold them in
your hand!
Phil Whitmer
Op 24-11-2010 16:55, Murray Paulson schreef:
Hi Marco:
The short lived isotopes decayed 4.5 - 4.6 or so billion years ago,
and only warmed the acreeted asteroid at that time. They are but a
distant memory when the meteorite falls here on earth today.
Hi Murray
No, you are mistaken. It is not
Hello Mark and list,
Reports of some meteorites having a sulphurous smell have been of
interest to me for several years now. My thanks to Mark Grossman for
the mention of the Sears article (1974) and Ursula Marvin's
speculations on the subject (2007). I've not seen either reference
yet and
Hi Piper,
Interesting points. I have not seen the original Sears article myself, but
Marvin mentions that Sears thought that meteorites contain too little
troilite to generate the sufurous odor. No mention of other sufur compounds
though.
On the other hand, I know from my chemical safety
: Nov 23, 2010 3:03 PM
To: Mark Grossman mar...@westnet.com, meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites (was Temperature of
meteorites)
Hello Mark and list,
Reports of some meteorites having a sulphurous smell have been of
interest to me
-Original Message-
From: Piper R.W. Hollier pi...@xs4all.nl
Sent: Nov 23, 2010 3:03 PM
To: Mark Grossman mar...@westnet.com,
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites (was Temperature
of meteorites)
Hello Mark and list,
Reports of some
Actually I use my nose. Cheaper and always with me .
Chris Spratt
Victoria, BC
(Via my iPhone)
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