[meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain Was From A Comet, Study Suggests

From: Charles Viau <cviau_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jun 5 10:39:33 2006
Message-ID: <20060605043114.6EAFE26562_at_ns4.beld.net>

Hello list,

I have been away and missed this discussion about the Kerala Red Rain. I
have had some experience with just such a thing about 16 years ago...

I live in Southern Massachusetts, and in this year (I think it was 1990 or
so), the trees in my entire neighborhood (possible 10 or 20 blocks)
developed a strange red fungus on the leaves in June/July. It was most
prevalent on Elms Oaks and Maples, but it was found on all trees in some
degree. It started out as a dusting of bright red powder all over the
streets, on sidewalks, porches, roofs, everywhere. When it rained it made
such a mess, and it looked as if there was some kind of slaughter going on.
This continued for over a month, until the fungus just went away. It did a
real job on the leaves of the trees, and left them with leaves that had lots
of rot and holes in them.

Many of us went to the local tree nursery shops for answers, and they said
it was a kind of fungus that only comes around in certain times and
conditions, and there was no real way to fight it, since the toxicity of the
cure would be worse than the effects of the fungus.

Other towns around here reported the same thing. You can most likely look it
up in newspapers of that time....

Anyway, My 2 cents.

Regards,
CharlyV

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Darren G. agreed:

>>How do you get a comet raining down material for three months over one
city?
>>It would have to be geosynchronous (revolving once around the Earth in 24

>>hours so that is always over the same spot). For some reason, I doubt
this.

>Yeah, I had that same problem with the idea.
 
While it is easy to be critical and even devilishly satisfying to mock this

theory, as long as we all agree that we don't agree with the proponents of
the comet idea, expend the time in those details? (except Martin, who
actually
seems to be in contact with the 'researchers' and might influence
positively
what is going on out there). Still, just because it is an off-the-wall
theory that seems to be in obvious trouble, it would take some more
scientific
explaining to discount the possibility that the mysterious red dust entered
the
atmosphere and and took a while to settle down as it combined in the
droplets. Granted, three months if that is the number sounds crazy, but
wind
currents and gusts lifting it off the ground bherever it fell is an
alternate to
flaming them in absentia with the "geostationary" idea. Micrometeorites
take a
couple of weeks to settle.
 
Saludos, Doug
 
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