[meteorite-list] Neutron and Proton productioninhyper-velocityimpacts

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:22:52 -0500
Message-ID: <nkscn35c372bpnskf1hl6d9ai8gmneocps_at_4ax.com>

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:15:13 -0600, you wrote:

>Oh. But there is a minor error in the balancing these nuclear reactions
>which you're not going to like, I'm surprised Sterling didn't have his
>thinking cap on when he answered you. 12-Carbon isn't being converted to
>14-C according to this black-box scheme - it is the 14-Nitrogen that is.

I caught that later on, but it doesn't actually change my figure, as it was
calculating fraction of the atmosphere's volume converted, not fraction of a
specific component of the atmosphere. It calculated for one 78km3 volume out of
around 660,000,000 78km3 volumes. I wasn't calculating for how much the
percentage of C14 in the atmosphere would change, just how much of the
atmosphere would be effected in that hypothetical situation.
Received on Sat 29 Dec 2007 11:22:52 AM PST