ds of deaths in Ch'ing-yang,
Shansi, in late February or early March of 1490. It's as
much history as Caesar's assassination is, no more, no
less. It's as "substantiated" as any history. There were
no Ming Dynasty tabloid news stories. History-writi
a number of interesting-sounding papers
by this team that bear on determining an accurate fall
rate, but I can't get to any of them without bribing The
Lords Who Own All Knowledge with exorbitant sums
from my hoard of ancient gold coins...
As the kid at Holbrook yelled, "Maw! It's raining rock
Here's your flowing turbulence, Jerry!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091223222743.htm
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From: "Jerry Flaherty"
To: &q
u Province). Lots of fascinating details!
Sterling K. Webb
Here is Robert's email:
The March-April 1490 event is well attested. The standard source for
information on meteor sightings and other celestial phenom
away than the 300 Light
Year Line
But 3260 light years? Fergettabouttit!
Now, I can go to bed without worrying about a darn
Supernova...
It's always something.
Sterling K. Webb
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e a show-stopper!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse#Fate
But it probably won't happen for thousands of years...
unless I get lucky. I would love to see a supernova.
As always, from a distance...
Sterling K. Webb
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http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/answers/snrisks.txt
I quote Michael Richmond's article in full, because it seems to
cover everything and saves all of us a lot of tedious arithmetic.
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Will a Nearby Sup
with Venus (assuming no great orbit changes).
This has given rise to speculation that it might
be hardware from a Venus mission, but the orbit
is still unlikely.
Maybe the Venusians are checking out Planet
Three...
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small asteroid (like the iron
that made Meteor Crater) is a "meteoroid" because of
all those Canyon Diablos. Whatever hit Tunguska is
NOT a "meteoroid" because nobody ever found a piece
of it.
2010 AL30 could be a "meteoroid" if it would hit and
leave a piece
There are no asteroids in the book. That term was
replaced by "Minor Planet," which has since been
replaced officially by SSSB (Small Solar System
Body). I'm still waiting for somebody to say, "Look!
It's an EssEssEssBee!"
even down to t
an an asteroid
and considerably larger than an atom." The
Royal Astronomical Society has proposed a new
definition where a meteoroid is between 100 µm
and 10 m across. The NEO definition includes
larger objects, up to 50 m in diameter, in this
category.
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disc, and it is reasonably assumed they
came from there.
This demonstrates that there is an ongoing transfer
of small amounts of fine, dusty material between
different stellar systems, a notion fraught with
possibilities...
Sterling K. Webb
teorite or meteoritic particle
with a diameter in general less than a millimeter.
Now, is everything perfectly clear?
I didn't think so...
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ites has, so far, always traced them back to
Main Belt asteroids.
And while we often don't know the original mass of
most objects that result in found meteorites, most of
the smallish bodies we call meteoroids are too small to
result in meteorites...
It could therefore be more co
;s Town Cars weighted "4500 to 5300 lb (2000 to
2400 kg)")
I stand my ground. If it's as heavy as a Lincoln Town Car...
it's heavy.
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Or one of those neat Indiana Jones
bullwhips, maybe?
And the hat...
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To:
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Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 8:07 PM
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hing (anybody?)
there. If you never look, you never find, just
like with meteorites.
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From:
To:
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 3:42 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] The search for aliens shou
uot;cosmic" dust. Every time you walk
out the door, you're stepping on cosmic dust. It's everywhere.
If you spend a fair amount of time out in the open air, you
probably have some cosmic dust incorporated into your body.
I'm going to stop now, before I start singing that Joni
rs (like in his garden), why not? What better
explanation? The Earth is just a self-gravitating sphere of
accumulating Wingstars -- a Wingstarosphere! Someone should
suggest it to him. Would it be fun to push him over the edge?
Assuming he
This is just a sort of a
double-ditto to Ron's.
Where is is it from?
When was it found?
Did you collect it in the field?
Or buy it for re-sale?
NWA?
USA?
And all the rest of it!
Inquiring Minds Want To Know...
Sterling K.
ee dimensions
and with "x-ray" vision. What it shows is something
I don't think any imaging technique could ever
produce.
I'm not a petrologist, you understand, just an old
physicist and anything bigger than an atom (like
crystals) is above my pay grade. The
le by
taxpayer dollars, so we have to pay for it twice...
naturally.
Thanks for all these sources. (The paper on
Astronomical Dating is a good read also.)
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Paul Heinric
Dave Gheesling posted a link to this paper
back on February 3, 2010:
http://www.fallingrocks.com/Collections/pdfs/Carancas.pdf
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From: "Michael Silveus"
all
means, hold the trinitite in your open palm, then take
a photo of it resting there, then put the trinitite away
in a nice display box. Write on the back of the photo,
"Here's me holding a piece of one of the paving bricks
from downtown Hell."
Sterling K. Webb
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Al, List,
History always decides these rivalries. There will
never be a posting on this (or any other) List with
the subject "Who is Harvey Nininger"!
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From: "al mi
http://www.khon2.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=3299&navCatId=4
The tsunami is late, but recession of the
sea leavel seems to have begun.
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ss well-known figure by far,
even if he was a much better scientist and researcher.
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From: "James Balister"
To:
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:51 PM
Subject: R
s
mange to kill it all off, leaving an unihabited and
uninhabitable Earth.
If true, that qualifies for more than "cranky" in my book.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Galactic Stone & Ironw
a breccia of two very
different materials, and there is lots of argument about
it. Perhaps it dates from the breakup and one of the
materials is that of the disrupting body and the other
is from the Datura family parent body (or Datura itself).
Nobody knows (yet).
It al
rare events than increased "normal"
levels of risk.
It all boils down to your personal taste in universes...
Sterling K. Webb
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To:
Cc:
Sent
No,
But you will have to send half of the fish,
if you catch any, to the Smithsonian...
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To: "Martin Altmann"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-
Here's the Google Earth way to the crater:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=884899&filename=20100309234324-4b974d9c5b6c89.58201074.kmz
Been posted on Google Earth boards as a potential
crater since 2006. It's in a Russian crater database
under the name Omeonga:
http:/
Well, since we're going back that far...
The Monolith Monstors (1957)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050720/
in which alien meteorites chemically alter
in terrestrial conditions, increase hugely in
size, and threaten to cover our planet?
Sterling Webb
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he same calculation as
in the posting on the Minor Planet Mailing List
(in an argument with Luis Alvarez).
Time (and a lot of fantastic astrometry) will tell. All that
is needed is the ability to detect proper motion in the
sub-arcsecond range. Good luck.
Sterling K. Webb
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es in a
photograph, just lightly scribe the faces of the
one-inch scale cube with a grid of 2.54 lines per
face using the upper-left corner of each face as
an origin.
No one will ever confuse them.
Sterling K.
self:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/01/paidcontent/main4061009.shtml?source=RSSattr=SciTech_4061009
Wait and see.
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From: "Meteorites USA"
To:
Sent: Wednesda
d the full story) here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100316164950.htm
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rs.
All these terms are unofficial and used for
convenience, not like the metric terms, like
meter, decimeter, centimeter, millimeter, etc.,
that are "official."
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F
lpsc2007/pdf/2053.pdf
The answer? Get geologists on the ground where they
work best, rock hammer in hand, lab handy. Get them
each a thermos of hot coffee; it's cold there.
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quirements per gram to escape a small
planet are betwen 100,000 to 1,000,000 times greater
than the motion forces in the biggest never-happened
Richter Force 10 quake. Only kinetic energy events
(impacts) generate that kind of force, and then only
very rarely.
My conclusion? No way.
Sterli
the source
materials without the comic book pictures:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1353
Myself, I like the comic book version better.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Robert Verish"
To: "Meteor
Here's news reel footage from three days after the
eruption when the cinder cone mountain was 1200
feet high (it's 1400 feet now):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjKmFvBD6k
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teorite when it touches the
Earth, after killing you, perforating your
car, smashing your house, or killing your
dog. Then, on the bounce, it touches the
Earth and becomes the Property of The State.
No harm, no fault. Hand it over, please.
S
ould
become the property of The State!
Back in the real world, meteorite laws are
few and vague and meteorite court cases
are scarce indeed. In this reality, the State
is usually successful in asserting whatever
they wish to assert.
S
Moon was a tektite,
it would be for sale on eBay, probably for its
"mystic" properties.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks"
To: "Meteorite List"
Sent: Tuesday, Apri
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100415185809.htm
Relates directly to past List discussions of
comet dust, cometary meteorites, source of
the Zodiacal dust, recent breakup of large
comets in the inner solar system, and a host
of other contentious issues.
Sterling K. Webb
another guy named Carl used to say...
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From:
To: "Jeff Kuyken" ;
Cc: ;
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs & Known Meteo
rbit?
Probably not.
And Larry beat me to it again.
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From: "JoshuaTreeMuseum"
To:
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 4:19 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireballs & Known Mete
Darren, List,
After watching this video, I nominate Terry
Boudreaux as Official Meteorite Spokesperson.
PR doesn't get any better than this, unless you
could get Tom Hanks to do it.
Sterling K. Webb
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single fragment
could be 3-5 kg (likely) to 10 kg (iffy).
Efficiency of recovery is low, so TKW will
likely be only 5 kg (without the big one) to
10 kg (with). The last time I tried this, I
got the TKW of Moss to within 50 grams,
but one trial does not a method make.
Sterling K. Webb
tly I post this for its sheer "eye candy" value.
Broadband is needed if you want to download or
watch the HD movies (2 Mb up to 30 Mb). Some
of the most spectacular astronomic images I've
ever seen.
Take a look.
Sterling K. Webb
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tem. It would make the
list. Of course, these rocks may not exist...
Personally, I think all the lists suggested to the List are
good lists, just of thirteen (or 30 or 300) ways of looking
at a blackbird (or a black rock).
Sterling K. Webb
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uzzard Coulee may not turn out
to be from out there but from an inner system orbit.
That orbit would be worth checking for evidence
of a "stream"!
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "E.P. Grondine"
will arrive at the surface of the Earth at 11,186
meters per second! The range of chances (like all chances)
is essentially random.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "E.P. Grondine"
To: ; &q
decrease with increasing altitude.
> maximum altitude where the atmosphere dense enough
> to support the formation of sonic boom?
At very high speeds and altitudes the Mach cone does not
intersect the ground and so, no boom is heard. Booms are
a lower altitude phenomenon. Got no precise figur
8? 8?!! Hey! You left out Mu...
AND Lemuria!
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Mike Jensen"
To:
Cc:
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Updated falls pageagain
Hi Darren &
have their Find moved to the Ten Most Important Meteorites
of All Time list.
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the gun or strike the victim. Nobody
heard the shot. Nobody saw the victim fall dead. Case
dismissed... for lack of evidence. Besides, those bullets
don't really kill anybody, you know.
Sterling K. Webb
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A Model T (1928)?
OK, a small old-fashioned school
desk, then (24" x 24" x 36"). That's
6000 pounds, or 30 large men's worth.
Still too much for a 1928 vehicle.
Hmmm.
Sterling K. Webb
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he right side of the object in the photo
there seems to be a plane feature but we can't see it.
The "data" in the news story can (as always) be
utterly disregarded, but it's no meteorite.
Sterling K. Webb
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but he was much further away than the animals.
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From: "Darryl Pitt"
To: "Bob Loeffler"
Cc: "Meteorite List"
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:03 PM
Subject
Hi,
I think the key word there is "recognized."
It takes a lot to get noticed in California...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Robert Verish"
To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral"
wn
the Arm & Hammer Co...
The Banjo virtuoso on the Beverley Hillbillies
theme was Earl Scruggs and he is the master of
the three-finger style, not clawhammer.
The Dillards were the fictitious Darling Family
but on the Andy Griffith Show (Episode #88 and
following).
Next!
St
rite?
That would depend on how the argument on this List came out...
> Scientifically speaking, wouldn't this be an interesting experiment?
Scientifically speaking, no... But, dude, it would be so much
kewler than a potato cannon or even a watermelon cannon!
Sterling K. Webb
orthern South American coast!
Tektites get around...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Paul"
To:
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:45 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Microtektites from Antarctica
egislature
in fast order. I suppose this indicates that
Massachusetts
lacks reverence for the kind of good old-time legal
tactics
practiced by King George III and his ilk, a reverence
that
is apparently possessed by the governments of Georgia
and Alabama.
Sterli
t mine shaft, he might break
some small bones in the foot or lower leg or he might
not if he's a really fluffy cat. If someone tosses a mouse
down the 100-foot shaft, the mouse lands on his feet,
shakes his head dizzily, and says, "What the hell was
that all about?" although to our
least a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel in Manhattan, a notion about diamond
size that occured long ago to F. Scott Fitzgerald
http://www.readbookonline.net/read/690/10627/
in his story "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"
(1
seum; 18.6 grams in the Dupont collection;
and 200 milligrams in the Gifhorn. Main mass at the Field.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 1
ed is from the 2000
edition of the NHM (UK) "Catalogue of Meteorites."
Possibly a little out-of-date, if there has been
trading since, but I can't imagine the Field giving
anybody the tiniest piece of Benld.
Sterling K. Webb
he neighbor, Mrs. Crum being
the first to exclaim, "It must be a meteorite! What else could
it be?"
This link:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1938PA.46..548W&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf
should pull up the entire article in printable and savable
form i
x27;s like
having hip pockets... handy.
Sterling K. Webb
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From:
To: ;
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Name of Texas Fall: Ash Creek
Chris,
If I wr
n would have been
burned and blistered; at five to seven miles... yes, your skin
would be burned, but the shock wave would have stripped
it right off your body, so... sort of irrelevant.
Tunguska stories are like fish stories; t
u
may have heard.)
You're in far more danger from McAfee than Sendspace.
(And no, I don't work for Symantec, or Sendspace either.)
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Bob Loeffler"
g time and the accumulation of lots
of evidence, more than we have now, probably.
Time (but not geologic time) will tell.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "E.P. Grondine"
To:
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2
mi? Nice photos and dynamics from Bretz:
http://geology.isu.edu/Digital_Geology_Idaho/Module13/MissoulaFloodbyKeenanLee.pdf
Whoops! Guess you shouldn't have mentioned
those Palouse ripples...
Sterling K. Webb
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Shove a TV camera in front of about anyone,
and it's amazing what comes out of their mouth...
The first words out of that mouth should be:
"Hi! Do you have a signed release from me?"
Sterling K. Webb
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n some
detail (at least for the Madagascan chevrons) here:
http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-static&name=i1052-5173-18-6-e12&ct=1
You could wait for the next big ocean impact, or
(to repeat my earlier point): fieldwork, fieldwork,
fieldwork!...
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h impacts, from initial
accretion through the Late Bombardment, are gone.
It's amazing what Mother Earth can do with her
tectonic make-up. The odds of such an impact now
(meaning in the last half-billion years) are small...
but not impossible by any means.
Sterling K. Webb
sources/releases/2007/asteroid.html
I have a theory too but it's too whacky for the margins of
this email. For more information search the List Archives;
they are rife for ten years with Tunguska postings and
-- for Godsake -- Google! (1,320,000 hits)
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"Diamonds are a foraminifera's best friend."
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Paul"
To:
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 10:06 PM
Subject:
USE flood basalts!
http://www.newgeology.us/presentation35.html
And we have an existing perfect example on Mercury, with
antipodean lava flooding opposite a big impact, so even if
Keller's right... She's wrong.
If you Google "keller chicxulub" at Google News, you will
get scads of
g=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=chicxulub+tidal+wave+height&source=bl&ots=33c3ShaH_w&sig=UbLBhKQWGelvfCUxGvaM-_oyxvo&hl=en&ei=nEAWSq3qGsurtgeK2umADQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=re
t both ways. In contrast
to what Einstein thought, God does roll the dice but,
at the same time, the game is totally rigged.
Or is it?
The only valid rule about seeing fireballs and meteors
is this: they may fall or
Hi, Tom, List
The last slide pictured (four round sections)
is identifiable from the names:
Dentalina is a foraminifer microfossil.
Nodosaria is a foraminifer microfossil.
Nodogenerina is a foraminifer microfossil...
Sterling K. Webb
d collections to look for such anomalous
stones as might be found in their dusty drawers or
cabinets in this publication (p. 77):
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960027473_1996032004.pdf
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e rest of Earth's life will go with us, sooner or
later, for better or for worse.
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From: "Pete shu...@clearwire.net"
To:
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 6:3
Just out today: a study that Earth microbes
would not do well on Mars:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090604-am-mars-microbe.html
Clearly, opinion is all over the map on this.
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n, is it referred to
as: a Terrestroid? an Earthoid? A Telluroid?
A Terranoid? Or possibly a Gaiaoid or
Geooid?
All these Earthican languages, and this
is the best we can do?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: &quo
orites). There is a fascinating discussion of why
the baetyls that are found are not actually meteorites.
The explanation? Lots of shrines, but not so many
meteorites!
http://www.ancients.info/forums/showthread.php?t=845
Everybody wants a meteorite f
photography uses the Schlieren effect
to render the differences in refraction visible. Here's
some nice photography and movies of it:
http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/_gKNhGbsEf4
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niverse is
deterministic. My computer works (most of the time); my
car engine runs; gravity always makes things fall at the
same accelerated rate. Objects that act like particles never
turn into waves and vanish -- Phfft! It's so orderly.
But on the super-macro-scale of deep space and
Hi, Darren, List,
The commentator who thinks this
sets a new low for American television
and astronomical science was obviously
fortunate enough to have missed the
series "Space 1999" (to name only one).
Sterling K. Webb
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Wouldn't it be more likely that
an extraterrestrial meteorite would
have hidden inside it the face of
an alien?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks"
To: &
ter are the scenes where people are sucked
up into the air, right out of their seats, by the increased
gravity of the Moon. I calculate that it would take roughly
3600 gee's to do that from the distance of the Moon. So,
is that better-worse than Space 1999's Sunlight without
ed everything
down in a few minutes and the gas dissipated
almost immediately, leaving no evidence of heat
or sulfurous fumes, just as the soon-corkscrewed
ablation trail that hung above the village was
blown away in 10-12 minutes.
Heat, yes, but not enough to
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From:
To: "Simon" ; "meteoritelist"
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Shuttle Carry
Simon, List,
Thank you
f you don't have a big
"cake-slice" like Africa's Rift Valley, you have to be lucky
and find just The Right Spot, much harder to do. They
did in Dmasi, Georgia, for example
Not My Job.
OK, this was massively Off-List, so please make your
comments, criticism, evaluati
ways across the Pacific
Ocean, with new ones added for every duplicate fossil
species find. Silliest dam thing you ever saw.
Sterling K. Webb
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To:
Sent: Friday, Jun
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