[meteorite-list] Shoemaker levy?

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:38 2004
Message-ID: <Sea2-F548RoMUVHOqMs00013763_at_hotmail.com>

Now I have this image in my mind of Jack Schmitt gesturing wildly at the
other Apollo astronauts, telling them that they're drilling in the wrong
spot, the geology's all wrong... :-)

Tracy Latimer

>You just descibed one of the best things I could ever imagine Steve.
>
>--
>
>Rob Wesel
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>
>
> >
> > --- Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_frontiernet.net>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello List, I am curious and know someone could
> > > answer this! If shoemaker
> > > levy or similar thing hit our moon instead of
> > > Jupiter, what would be the
> > > results to our moon and what effects would it have
> > > on the Earth?
> > >
> > > Thanks, Tom
> > > The proudest member of the IMCA 6168
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I read somewhere, recently, like last year, that a
> > major impact event on the moon would or could create a
> > crater 20 miles or more in diameter. This would
> > liberate and millions of tons of lunar material out
> > into space as a cloud.... and much of this would then
> > a few days later rain onto the earth, and we would
> > have meteor shower unlike any ever seen by man, a
> > thousand times greater then even the Great Leonid
> > Storm of 1966.
> >
> > And small Lunar meteorites would rain down in many
> > places throughout the world.
> >
> >
> > Steve Schoner/AMS
> > http://www.geocities.com/meteorite_identification
> >
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