RE: [meteorite-list] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to Titan(doubts)

2006-03-22 Thread mark ford
] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to Titan(doubts) Hi, List, Mike You've put your finger on many of the problems of getting a rock off a planet and launched into space. When it was first determined that Martian meteorites WERE Martian, there were choruses of no way! No impact model anticipates

RE: [meteorite-list] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to Titan (doubts)

2006-03-21 Thread mark ford
Hi Mike, Well I'm not an escape velocity so take this with a pinch of salt, but when meteorite enters the atmosphere it will have a high 'cosmic velocity' not just the Earth's gravitational attraction speed, so in fact the speed of an incoming meteorite would be significantly faster than just

Re: [meteorite-list] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to Titan (doubts)

2006-03-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, List, Mike You've put your finger on many of the problems of getting a rock off a planet and launched into space. When it was first determined that Martian meteorites WERE Martian, there were choruses of no way! No impact model anticipates such ejection; none, even today, shows