Dear Steve, Norm and List Members,
I posed a question to D. Futrell some 10 years ago
concerning comet formation of tektites. I asked him
if it was possible that a comet could have entered
Earth`s atmosphere and left behind glass from melted
silicates from both the comet and Earth entrained dus
Steve,
Everything sounds fine till that last couple of
paragraphs where every other proposal also stumbles.
Just where is all this silicate material in our oceans
or atmosphere? I still see a mass balance problem.
I'm open for a good answer, but if you just described
it, I didn't understand.
My theory on tektite formation:
Go back to the impacts of cometary material on Jupiter in July of 1994. I
think in this there is a clear demonstration of how tektites are formed. There
were huge plumes of plasma extending out into space, and large dark clouds of
re-condensed dust from the imp
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