Re: [meteorite-list] Hypervelocity impacts and neutron spallation

2009-11-02 Thread oxytropidoceras
On Oct. 30, 2009 and in Hypervelocity impacts and neutron spallation ( http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057772.html ) E.P. Grondine wrote: This would all be blue sky, but for those 14C spikes... Chris, I think I got the copy of the INTCAL98 chart from one of

[meteorite-list] Hypervelocity impacts and neutron spallation

2009-10-30 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Sterling, Rob, Chris, all - Even Tunguska (now estimated at somewhere between 5 to 15 megatons) threw off enough high energy (infra-red) photons to set the trees on fire for miles around. Now some of those photons would not have been directed outward, but instead have hit other nearby