http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/papers/2010/J10.pdf
More directly, meteorites from the outer-belt contain hydrated minerals such as serpentine, carbonates and halite. To the author’s eyes, the most incredible example is shown in Figure 10, in which is pictured a chondrite meteorite that was observed to fall near the town of Monahans in Texas (Zolensky et al. 1999). The meteorite fell in a dry place and was collected and immediately handed to scientists for study, precluding the possibility of Terrestrial contamination. Inside the meteorite are found, among other clear diagnostics for the past presence of liquid water, millimeter-scale cubic halite (NaCl) crystals. The age of the halite determined from Rb-Sr radioactive decay is 4.7 ± 0.2 Gyr, essentially equal to the age of the Solar system. Some of these salt crystals further contain brine pockets (10 µm scale) and, in Figure 10, a gas bubble floating in a brine pocket is shown (Zolensky et al. 1999). This remarkable specimen leaves no room for doubt about the role of water in the asteroid belt. The asteroid parent of Monahans contained ice that was melted, probably in the first few Myr after the formation of the Solar system. The liquid water reacted chemically with adjacent minerals forming hydrated species. Evaporation lead to increasing salinity and the formation of brines in which salt crystals grew. Then, as 26Al and other short-lived elements decayed away, the asteroid cooled and any remaining water froze. A subsequent collision blasted off fragments, one of which struck Texas and appears in Figure 10. [image: Inline image 1] D. Jewitt Figure 10. The incredible H5 chondrite Monahans, in which are found the clear products of aqueous alteration, including cubic salt (NaCl) crystals (upper left). Inside the salt are several liquid brine pockets (upper right) and, inside some of the brine pockets, are gas bubbles. The halite is radioactively dated to 4.7 ± 0.2 Gyr. Monahans is most likely a piece of an outer asteroid belt object in which much of the ice melted soon after formation, and boiled away. It is perhaps closely related to the MBCs. Figure adapted from Zolensky et al. (1999). These cold bodies should never have been exposed to heat high enough to melt water unless that heat came from internal processes like cold fusion. On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Russ George <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the request though many of us have been engaging in that very > discussion for 25 years without making much progress. Jean Pierre Vigier > was my favourite kindred spirit in such open and far ranging conversations > but he has passed into the ether himself and alas is not sending me any > reports or tips since. It’s always been clear that the residual heat of > accretion, radioactive decay, and insolation could not come close to > account for the temperature of several planets. > > > > Surely cold fusion/lenr is not some invention of man, it is a > characteristic of atom-ecology and likely common in exotic environs such as > deep within planets. My experiments revealed to me that it is also found in > some other less dense ecologies as well. My thinking based on observations > is that it sometimes, fortunately rarely, has characteristic here-to-fore > undescribed radiation that we simply don’t ordinarily see with the tools we > are accustomed to using. As Krishnamurti said ‘one does not catch the > unknown in a net of the known.’ > > > > We need new nets and weaving/engineering those is the fun part of this > pioneering field, alas the noise is bother as we are bracketed and beset by > both patho-skeptics and patho-inventors, to say nothing of the ever present > vultures. Ces’t la vie. Please send more specific other-worldly examples > you think are good spoor on the trail to the story you suggest, I am > interested. > > > > *From:* Axil Axil [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:41 PM > *To:* vortex-l > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:EM Drive Rises Above Pathoskeptic Dirge > > > > Dear Russ, > > > > As the most talented LENR popularest, I recommend that you write an > article on the active geology on pluto including active ice volcanos > probably powered by an internal heat source that could only come from a > LENR reaction at the center of this planet. > > > > See for background > > > > http://www.space.com/31073-pluto-ice-volcano-mountains-photos.html > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Russ George <[email protected]> > wrote: > > New Physics and the EM Drive is rising and illustrates the crisis in > physics being experienced by the dogmatic science communities in this and > many other fields where real revolutionary results are rejected by puppy > mill pups and professors. > http://atom-ecology.russgeorge.net/2016/04/27/em-drive-rises-despite-pathoskeptic-dirge/ > > >
