[meteorite-list] From Outer Space to Inner Space...

From: Jerry A. Wallace <jwal2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:46 2004
Message-ID: <3E6D41D9.5080401_at_swbell.net>

Folks,

Here's an article from _Discover_, Aug., 2002, that I just stumbled onto
and found fascinating. A researcher,
geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon, uses material evidence found in
meteorites to help support conclusions
derived from his [radical] new theory concerning Earth's inner
composition and its nuclear mechanics.

This is a paragraph from the article:

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The answer, says Herndon, dwells inside chondrites, stony meteorites
that have fallen to Earth and are thought
to represent a record of conditions during the solar system's birth.
"Most of today's geophysics is based on the
idea that Earth is like ordinary chondrites, which were formed under
relatively oxygen-rich conditions," he says.
But there is a small group of meteorites called enstatite chondrites
that formed under conditions in which much
less oxygen was present. "These are like the inner planets," Herndon
says. "The oxygen isotopes in enstatite
chondrites are identical to what we find inside Earth."
.................................................................

One of the predictions coming out of his new theory is that the earth
will only be able to support life as we
know it for a mere two billion more years, as opposed to the current
estimate of four billion years.
Guess I need to worry about this twice as fast as I had been.

If you haven't already read the article, I'll bet you'll find it very
interesting.

http://www.discover.com/aug_02/featplanet.html

Jerry Wallace
Odessa, Texas

PS... A new movie, due out at the end of this month, is based on Dr.
Herndon's theory. It's titled "The Core".
Received on Mon 10 Mar 2003 08:54:33 PM PST