[meteorite-list] Mystery Solved!

From: marsroxx_at_theofficenet.com <marsroxx_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:46 2004
Message-ID: <1020615466.3cd55b2a8547c_at_webmail.theofficenet.com>

Steve,
I do not think you mean to say that a tektite fell from the Moon to the Earth,
Do you?

Alan


Quoting meteorites_at_space.com:

> On Fri, 03 May 2002, Chauncey Walden wrote
>
> >
> > In a story on meteorites in this month's issue of
> Rock and Gem, Bob
> > Jones says that tektites are from the moon. No
> discussion, just the
> > statement. There it is in black and white so it must
> be right. At least
> > he didn't let out the secret that they are petrified
> green cheese.
> > Chauncey Walden
> >
>
>
> As I once argued... if even one stretch tektite exists,
> then there is absolutely no way these objects could
> have come from the moon.
>
> There is no mechanism by which such could possibly
> survive in that form after having entered the earth's
> atmosphere at the requisite velocity of 7+ miles
> per/sec after having fallen the distance from the moon
> to earth.
>
> The cinch is that there are not just one such stretch
> tektites-- but many.
>
> Steve Schoner, American Meteorite Survey.
>
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Received on Sun 05 May 2002 12:17:46 PM PDT