Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-20 Thread Jeff Kuyken
To: cyna...@charter.net; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ? Darren/All, The thinner atmosphere on Mars -- and the lower minimum atmospheric entry velocity due to its gravity -- should only mean

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-20 Thread Dave Gheesling
-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ? Hi Dave, I believe fusion crust is created not only by the heat of atmospheric friction but also by the heat generated through high pressures, the latter generated by a column of molecules simply not having

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-19 Thread cdtucson
Michael, This article you posted is dated Sept. 24th. We were there on the 18th and the smell was already gone. The locals described it to us as a sulfur smell more than Garlic but I don't think we asked about garlic so maybe it did smell of Garlic. I do know that the water was boiling for

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:04 -0700, you wrote: This material has been shown to have a very odd cosmochemistry. So much so that scientists are unwilling to publish the results. http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=45817 Okay, some of you on the list have close ties with real

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-19 Thread Pekka Savolainen
Darren Garrison kirjoitti: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:04 -0700, you wrote: This material has been shown to have a very odd cosmochemistry. So much so that scientists are unwilling to publish the results. http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=45817 Okay, some of you on the

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-19 Thread cdtucson
Darren, I have no idea who you are but from your posts I thought you of all people might know the difference between a meteorite classification and the study of a meteorites Cosmochemistry. Obviously you don't. Maybe you should try a Google search before you Try to make other people look

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:13:06 -0400, you wrote: I have no idea who you are but from your posts I thought you of all people might know the difference between a meteorite classification and the study of a meteorites Cosmochemistry. Here's a hint for you-- by classifying a meteorite as an H4-5,

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Murray
Hi Carl, Since we already have a one-on-one email thing going here posted for the whole list to see, I hope you don't mind my jumping in with my 2 cents. To my way of thinking, Darren seems to be spot-on for the most part with his usually brief but informative posts, which are pretty much

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-19 Thread Darren Garrison
Off-list argument relisted because-- well, the content has great potential for much wise input from other list members. On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:11:45 -0700, you wrote: Lets back up a bit here. You know very well that my posts usually argue against what we think we know. I think there is an over

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-19 Thread Dave Gheesling
: Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ? Off-list argument relisted because-- well, the content has great potential for much wise input from other list members. On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:11:45 -0700, you wrote: Lets back up a bit here. You know very well that my posts usually argue against

[meteorite-list] Carancas: Arsenic smell ?

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Bross
Hi List I am coming like hair in the soup... about Carancas, seeing the just recent exchanges :) but following the post about Staten Island today I did some search on NYTimes website and got to this article from 2007 in the first 10 hits: