[meteorite-list] solar eclipse and (unrelated) the K-T impactor

From: David Weir <dgweir_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:01:32 2004
Message-ID: <3D050139.10400B19_at_earthlink.net>

Hello Tracy,

I think this is very cool also, and I saved a picture of it some time
ago. Check it out:

http://www.geocities.com/dgweir/ktfossil.jpg

David

Tracy Latimer wrote:

> Secondly, one of my friends went on a rampage through the discount bin at
> Borders yesterday and bought the Big Book of Dinosaur Questions, a
> children's book that had more fascinating information than most erudite
> adult books. Anyway, among the things he read were:
> a. The Chixulub impactor came in at a shallow (20 degrees or
> thereabouts) angle, which showered the western portion of North America
> with debris and caused a MUCH bigger dieback than if the meteorite had
> come in straight down, as is commonly portrayed. Kinda like having a
> water fight with your friends; when you use your hand tospray water at
> them by scooping it along the surface of the pool.
> b. A drilling team in the Pacific Northwest thinks the may have recovered
> a tiny fragment of the original impactor from sediments brought up from an
> ocean floor core. First off, I had no idea pieces of the impactor bigger
> than molecular size would remain, and second off, as a collector, HOW DO I
> GET MY HANDS ON SOME OF THIS STUFF?!?!?This is WAY cool.
>
> If anyone has more information, web links, comments, etc. I'd like to hear
> about it. Thanks for letting me take up your bandwidth.
Received on Mon 10 Jun 2002 03:42:49 PM PDT