) but there's no trace of
a rim on the western end on the other side
of the gully. It IS circular, but is that enough?
"Maybe it is; maybe it isn't" is my first
impression.
Sterling K. Webb
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well preserved meteorite crater."
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From: "Greg Redfern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Eric Wichman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:13 PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/19/scialien119.xml
Milestone in hunt for extraterrestrial life
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Astronomers have found organic chemicals on
a planet outside our solar system for the
first time, a milestone in the hunt for
extraterre
Hi, All,
A very coy press release. What are the three asteroids?
Where are they in the solar system? and a host of other
questions go unanswered.
They're large, 50km to 100km in diameter says the abstract:
"Calcium-, aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) occur in all classes
of chondritic meteo
/980_Anacostia
Discovered by G. H. Peters Nov. 21, 1921.
It ranges from 2.74 AU to 3.294 AU in a period
of 4.539 years. No diameter is given.
Sterling K. Webb
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it's likely
more cost effective just to move the asteroid to Earth-Moon
space, in orbit around one or the other. I suspect lunar orbit
would be the preferred option as folks get nervous about
asteroids headed toward Earth.
Of course, it'll be a mining claim, but souvenirs are always
go
ot; time scale seems right and the
"seconds" time scale seems unlikely. Or so says the back
of my envelope.
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From: "Chauncey Walden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
s in every direction.
Of course, if you belong to the "squirted jet" theory of
tektites, then I'm wasting my time keeping an eye out for
them.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "E.P
duced only by impacts. "
http://www.somerikko.net/old/geo/imp/refer.htm
There has been iridium analysis, but it's inconclusive.
I'm going to stop Googling now (2350 hits)
Sterling K. Webb
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melt rock by rubbing two mountains together.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:59 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Bad Science on ancient meteorite imp
that's what the consumer wants."
A Taurus re-style in 1992 to a more rectangular style
degraded the aerodynamics, but the next re-style of 1996
was more aerodynamic (and jelly-bean-like) than the 1986
original. The current Taurus models are
ible number of causes, factors,
or variables." In other words, the simplest explanation
that explains everything is the best one.
Well, OK. What Bill actually said was, "Entia non
sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate," but he talks funny,
you know.
Sterling K. Webb
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dark
shock veins (or slickensides, if that's what they are).
Any rock that has a preferred cleavage, for whatever
reason, is unlikely to have been broken into a sphere.
I wish somebody would try to isotopically date the
shock features of Carancas. I bet it has a history...
Sterling K. W
t; side
of the fiery shock wave, it's safe from being melted at least.
It's like being the heat shadow.
Both Schultz and I calculate that the object was still
supersonic when it hit, still enclosed in a "detached"
shock wave, so the sides never ablated at any point.
Sterlin
ot;
[Scribble, scribble...] If they all did, we would have
a Carancas-crater event roughly every three weeks.
(That's 170 fresh 10-meter craters since 1998.)
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x27;s been trying
and can't do it yet.)
4. I will leave Wild Bill Occam out of all future
discussions. Fact is, he's over to the saloon, drunk on
his Franciscan keister, having discovered the advances
in distillation that have happened since the 14th
pending
so much money! Cut your spending until you have money left
over. Put it in the bank. Pay down your credit card. Don't take
out loans. You want to buy something special? Save up the money
until you can buy
eve?). Some juggle, improve, upgrade,
expand. Some just Collect.
So, is this a general offer to the List, to buy whole
collections?
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From: "Michael L Blood" <[EMAI
The "traces"
are of a carbonaceous chondrite, a likely composition for
a "comet," which is afterall just an asteroid with extra frosting.
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resh long-period comet only 3200
meters across but moving at 72 km/second!
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To: "Meteorite Mailing List"
Sent
lake) muck is widespread.
Now that they've found the cosmic osmium where
we expect it to be, I want'em to look for osmium-188
spikes (or enrichment) in some long sedimentary cores
from geologically more recent times for evidence of
impacts we are unaware of, or only suspect
olid) surface is clay; there is something
else an inch or so down, or a change in density, to mudstones,
siltstones, or something else (?). There are organics on the surface
with all the potential that implies.
My last prediction? It's not going to look like any planetary surface
we've a
Hi, Darren, Chris, List
The great dictionarianist Samuel Johnson
described it as the sound of a goose hissing!
I suppose it depends on how angry the Welsh
speaker is at English dictionarianists...
Pronunciation guide to Welsh:
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Lesson01.html
Sterling K. Webb
fore anyone had ever heard of it.
"It doesn't matter what he does,
he will never amount to anything."
Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895
"...so many centuries after the Creation it is
unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown
lands of any value."
Commi
g-lived, super-dense,
super-strong, and have other strange properties we can exploit!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
Here's an extended Periodic Table that shows all the
elements that don't exist, but may exist afterall!
http://www.apsidium.com/ext_pt/expertab.pdf
St
something
that sounded like " Or - gool "
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To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:39 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Mike Farm
le Shop Of Horrors" (Horror, 1960)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054033/
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From: "Greg Hupe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, May 01,
Postal Doug,
Of course, the U.S. Mail is subsidized and
supported by law -- it's a government service,
as the National Posts of many nations are.
I believe, as Mr. Franklin did, that governments
exist to provide useful and necessary services
for its citizens, and a mandate to establish
a postal se
Don,
Probably not.
Sterling
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From: "Don Rawlings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What the heck is going on?? Nothing!!!
It'sDEAD!!! JOKE
Is this waste of bandwidth and cl
Hi All,
The AMOR radars that are used to detect
meteoroids at altitude all find a few percent of
them have velocities too high to have originated
in our solar system's gravitational family. The
fast particles have a preferred origin, from which
more than a quarter of them originate, a patch of
Hi, Pete,
Quick answer (with footnotes) is YES.
There a deep sediment meteorite fragment from
Chicxulub -- 66 million years old. There's an iron
from Oklahoma, Lake Murray, more than 100 million
years old; photos here:
http://www.meteorlab.com/METEORLAB2001dev/labphoto/LakeMurray.htm
htt
'll be gone soon... The Kentland crater is a quarry too,
and so is Crooked Creek. Maybe what we need to do to
find Ordovician crater sites is map quarries?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Mr
is too great for a "good" isochron. This would
be reasonable, unless you compare the tektite isochron data
with other isochrons regarded as "acceptable." There are many,
many worse cases of scatter in the literature and regarded as
"good,&
quot;Lower" numerical values correspond to older rocks;
"higher" numerical values correspond to younger materials.
Earth rocks are 0.702 to 0.711; tektites are 0.7121 to 0.7232.
These Sr87/Sr86 values of tektites are outside the terrestrial
range. Tekti
star, right? My idea is that everybody who
thinks "dwarf" planets are not "real" planets be required
to take a hiking trip around the equator of Ceres, the
smallest "dwarf" planet. All they have to carry with them
is 3-4 months of food, wa
golf course, but you know how
astronauts love to play golf.
Try not to leave any beercans behind.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteor
're right -- it's too late for this
much math. The gravitational acceleration is 0.30625
meters per second per second! My advice? Take a book
(or two) along to kill time while you "plummet" to the
ground.
Sterling K. Webb
or will be once we stop making weekend visits
and get serious.]
Sterling K. Webb
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Meteorite List" ;
is:
1,802,617,000,000 furlongs per fortnight
I hope this helps...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Mark Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, May 20,
t! No substitute for the geologist (planetologist? cometologist?)
on the ground, drilling, taking seismic profiles, whacking things
with those neat little hammers, whatever.
Sterling K. Webb
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aybe the climate will change.
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To:
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:08 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Greensburg hit by another tornado last
The BBC has posted a short video clip
of the moment of the landing confirmation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/743.stm
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Michael Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTE
and compare the "true-ness" of the colors:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/231350main_sol002_runout_color.jpg
Things still need a tiny bit of tweaking, but it's a
big improvement.
Sterling K. Webb
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Meteo
rfect
landing two days ago, but I doubt enough red dust landed
up there to change all the colors this much.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "ensoramanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday,
light is sunlight. I think it looks pretty good,
whether it's shining on Mars or shining on the Earth. Just
because you're on Mars, it still not a good thing to look
directly at the Sun. Everything will look just as bright to
you as it does on Earth. Even though it measures at only
50%
h identical green glassy crusts.
The whereabouts of most of the
sedimentary "pseudometeorites" is
unknown, not surprising considering
their reception, so the sophisticated
tests that could be performed today
are impossible. There's a kind of
self-reinforcing judgement at work
in
concept of a
terrestrial meteorite or not, but he certainly came to it
early (1952), presumably on his own.
Jeff says, "Show me the object," and I heartily
agree and wish it was possible.
Sterling K. Webb
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I think it's doing a wonderful job. Go slow. Test every foothold
before you put your weight on it. Look before you leap. Small steps,
small steps...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Franc
Hi,
Reinforcing the previous point:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080603-phoenix-update.html
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Francis Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To
ll adhere to it AS
WRITTEN.
There is a sense in which the use of the "-oid" suffix IS
appropriate. That is in the sense that the resemblance referred
to is inaccurate or inappropriate. Apes at a distance resemble
men ("anthropos"), hence anthropoid. A small solar system
body see
t
the large number of existing discoveries with magnitudes
greater than +1.0.
We will see when they dispose of naming.
Sterling K. Webb
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the objects, which to
my mind is what counts.
Galileo Galilei had some thoughts on naming things.
What better source to consider when defining a planet?
He wrote: "Names and attributes must be accommodated
to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names,
for things come first a
The limerick packs laughs anatomical
In space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
Sterling K. Webb
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From:
To:
you paid for...
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1016/2004-1016.pdf
with lots and lots and lots of articles!
Go crazy, EMan.
Sterling K. Webb
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To: "me
witter any more.
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From: "Carl 's"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Display idea for Riker boxes
Hi MikeG,
Where did you get tha
have been kidnapped for ransom, murdered,
and sometimes turned into criminals themselves. Read
all about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud
Sterling K. Webb
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From
off the surface about the same
distance as the height of the visible upper
bulge.)
Too heavy to drag home. I don't even think
we could get it into the 4x4, assuming this not
BLM land, that is...
Sterling K. Webb
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don't you think? And we've searched how much
of the planet's surface?
I understand that the official NASA position is that a thicker
atmosphere is required:
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-10-2009/0005075085&EDATE=
"Scientists
rate.
Made me buy a Bessey speck a few years later and
chow down.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Fries, Marc D (3225)"
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list
reasoning"? It will take more any
Libel Law to stop that. Just sit back and enjoy it. Order
another Martian Cocktail.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Peter Davidson"
To:
Sent: Thu
.
As for "Whoopie! The Universe Is Ours!" I'd hold off a bit
before you run the Human Pan-Galactic Federation flag up
and salute it. It's a little too early to celebrate.
You'll find a lot of intere
downloadable at:
http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/science_books/astronomy_cosmology/relativity_special_general_and_cosmological.html
And the answer? I won't spoil it, but you can get the
20-foot pole into the 5-foot garage easily, no problemo.
and with room to spare! (p. 63)
w, if you're in a distant galaxy, far,
far away, and we're red-shifted --- well,
that's another matter.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Mark Ford"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:54 A
es, but I
never met one. They're awfully empty...
Experiment is the key to all knowledge. You stack up
an infinite number of Earths, then time falling objects
with a pendulum, or even better, time the pendulum...
right in the heart of downtown Gedanken
aculty/rgk/atm101/sprite.htm
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "André Knöfel"
To: "Mike Hankey" ; "meteoritelist"
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [m
That humans have turned sex into an amusement park is just an
abomination...
On behalf of amusement park operators every-
where, I strenuously object to this comment...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "
e,
and he replies, famously, "Badges? We doan
neeed no steenkin' badges!" It's one of the
great lines in movie history and -- you know
The Biz -- credits are everything.
Oh, and Bogart DIDN'T say "Play it again,
ies and it never goes away.
I saw "Treasure" at a drive-in movie in McAllen,
Texas, when I was nine, my first drive-in movie
and the first time I saw Bogart. It made a big
impression on me, and I've probably seen it
5-6 times since. Still, stereotypes are powerful
mind-altering memes,
ther" was first a huge Broadway hit
play in 1939, then a 1947 movie with William
Powell and Irene Dunne, and then a TV show
from 1953 to 1955, with Leon Ames and Lurene
Tuttle. It was based on memoirs written by
Clarence Day Jr. about his father (logically
enough).
Don't t
Rob Matson asked me to post this for him,
as he's where he can't post it himself.
Sterling Webb
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Hi All,
I've been revisiting old fireballs for which
meteorites were never recovered, but that
had lots of witnesses, and ba
n The Meteorite
Quibble List --- it's ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
It's the Meteorite [Inclusive] List, and it's far
better off for being what it is than if it were too
narrowly defined, maddening as it may be at
times.
Sterling K. Webb
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Phil, List,
You don't need Brownian motion of any kind.
"An object, set in motion, remains in uniform
motion unless interfered with." Some guy named
Newton said that.
You need to read up some. I said that.
S
mmense collision and re-assembly
between a naked iron core and a basaltic crusted asteroid,
both of them of very large size. Others attribute the dating
to the formation of the mesosiderites in a very large almost
Ceres-sized asteroid with very, very slow cooling that was
supernova source.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Sterling K. Webb" sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net
To: "Carl 's" carloselgua...@hotmail.com;
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Se
It's just that nothing (much) can punch its way
through that heavy crust.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Rob McCafferty"
To:
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [meteor
n, every though they had only
13-16 minutes to do so before the electronics fried. And
that basalt-looking stuff seems to be... basalt. The bulk
composition figures returned could be any of thousands
of basaltic regimes on Earth -- no unusual features of
any kind whatsoever. Boringly similar to Eart
ow a lot of casino operators who want you as a
client. Betting against the Strong CP is betting Against
The House.
Just keep playing; I'll go get you another free drink...
Sterling K. Webb
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ny part of an object.
The short bright re-entry with flare-up is a sign
of coming in without a wing and prayer...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Greg Catterton"
To:
Sent: Thursday, September 10,
Hi Phil, and List,
When the Aliens do land, I'll do all
I can to promote as the chief Press Officer
for the new Earth Chamber of (Interstellar)
Commerce! Tell'em how wonderful we are.
Until then, I'm cutting you off. No more
free drinks.
S
Hi Phil, and List,
When the Aliens do land, I'll do all I can
to promote YOU as the chief Press Officer
for the new Earth Chamber of (Interstellar)
Commerce! Tell'em how wonderful we are.
Until then, I'm cutting you off. No more
free drinks.
S
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090910-am-impact-mixotrophs.html
Life in the Dark: How Organisms Survived Asteroid Impacts
By Jeremy Hsu -- Astrobiology Magazine
10 September 2009
A dinosaur-killing asteroid may have wiped out
much of life on Earth 65 million years ago, but
now scienti
ed by a compressional wave
at a free surface." I think of flat flakes when I think of
spalling (which is not that often).
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison"
To
! The word METEOR and the
word COMET are both Greek! (That's the best
on-topic remark I could manage...)
Sterling K. Webb
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From:
To:
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: [meteorite-li
Fer a while, I stood there wi' a
glaikit look on my fizzog, then:
http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2005/01/09/your-scottish-slang-word-o-the-day-glaikit/
Sterling K. Webb
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dissement_64_a.html
You can see it's a vertical shaft, not a pit, not a
crater in the classic width/depth ratio of 3:1.
If a stone does not fragment, it will be a "ground
penetrator."
Sterling K. Webb
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It seems that not only do comets impact Jupiter,
they may also become moons, temporary or
permanent, of the planet.
Wonder what it would take to get a "comet moon"
for the Earth?
Sterling K. Webb
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to put the barbeque... If we're
going to have a second Moon, I want something better
than this.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Alexander Seidel"
To: "Richard Kowalski" ;
;
states, they
are procurable only by prescription due to their
popularity among purveyors of less-than-legal
substances.
Entirely the wrong thing for meteorites and
like materials. I'd go with acrylic.
Sterling K.
lcanism as it exited. Silly notion. We don't
have massive basalt flood vulcanism... What's that?
We do? Every how often? Hmm. You don't suppose...?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Carl '
to small chunks, I suggest injecting
a Neutronium Bullet and a Positronium Bullet to
spiral around until they meet each other at the
center of the Earth's core, combine, and distrupt
the entire planet for the easiest collection of the
raw ma
year thick slabs of lead are
hard to come by...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Phil Whitmer"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:28 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Chicxulub Asteroid
This is where
an observe.
All because the universe has a Speed Limit. We
don't need Relativity Cops -- this universal speed limit
enforces itself ! There are these signs everywhere:
"Speed Limit:
Speed of Light.
It isn't just a good idea --
IT'S THE
r that close to its
star, even for a mere 1.5 billion years and despite
the fact that if it had the same percentage of water
in its makeup as the Earth, its surface oceans
would be 60% deeper than Earth's oceans.
Atmospheric guessing is really unreliable.
* It makes the
k barrel and go find one like the two pix
above. You'll be a lot happier...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Mike Hankey"
To: "meteoritelist"
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2
NHM Catalogue listed for
Pennsylvania, only three (38%) are non-iron,
while 90% or more of the meteorites that
fall there (and everywhere else) are stones.
Why? Stones don't survive in those conditions.
Sterling K. Webb
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I've always assumed that small comet
fragments came from the complete breakup of
the parent comet (didn't you?). But it appears
that comets can produce many, many small
comets without suffering any apparent harm.
Or maybe this is the way comets break up...
slowly?
Sterli
do you get? Five billion years later, we
get songs written especially for Woodstock that start:
"We are stardust..."
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Melanie Matthews"
To:
Sen
ould be a chunk
of the largely battered-away former crust of Mercury,
for example. Put a lander on Mercury and measure
the oxygen ratios and we'll know.
As usual, too little data for ANY conclusion. The
connection with the Bottke study is likely purely
hypothetical. In other
the pollen varies with the plant
species, "Orange Rain" seems perfectly
plausible. It is an irregular occurrence in
any one locale (insect routes and size of
swarm vary considerably).
Sterling K. Webb
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as such possessions descend
by the succession of the kingship, one must ask who is
monarch of Mercia now? That person would seem to be
the rightful inheritor... and I believe we know that lady's
name.
How about that for a Monarchical argument from
a Re
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