[meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

From: Mr EMan <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:23:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <563146.63778.qm_at_web55208.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

Sorry but these suppositions are hogwash. The evidence says no such thing! The link, while interesting, is unrelated. Until a second petrology from West is found, the color of the meteoroid internal matrix was what we see on what was recovered. Yes we can not prove any pre-entry surface color but making a scientifically founded prediction will win out over tequilla or tarot cards 99.99% of the time.(OTSSWAG)

Elton


--- On Fri, 3/13/09, cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:

> From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, "Eric Wichman" <eric at meteoritewatch.com>
> Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 3:40 PM
> Eric,
> This is a very interesting question to me because ; How do
> we know what color these west rocks were prior to entering
> our Atmosphere?Maybe we don't? As seen in the video of
> the fall it looks to me that something came apart in
> mid-air. But maybe those are represented by only the broken
> ones found on the ground. What if the complete stones
> actually came in black? It is not a stretch to imagine that
> because we simply do not know the answer. There is no way we
> could know. Before you think I'm crazy consider the only
> bit of information we know for a fact was done by the
> Europeans called "stone6".
> <http://www.spacedaily.com/report/Stone_6_Artificial_Meteorite_Shows_Martian_Impactors_Could_Carry_Traces_Of_Life_999.html>
> In this experiment none of the rocks turned black. Some of
> the rocks in fact did not change colors at all. and the ones
> that did, changed to a creamy white crust.
> So, who is to say these rocks are not already black while
> traveling through space. The evidence here actually leans in
> that direction. Maybe these rocks were already coated with
> black crust and that is what protects them from evaporation
> when they travel through our atmosphere.
> Again, this may sound silly but if you look at the evidence
> from this study and you acknowledge the fact that the things
> we do see in space are in fact already dark it does make you
> wonder. Maybe our atmosphere is not the reason they are
> black after all? Something else comes to mind, We have all
> seen pictures of meteors traveling through our atmosphere
> and then back out again. Wouldn't those accumulate crust
> and then continue on there journey? ???.
> Carl Esparza
> IMCA 5829
> Meteoritemax
Received on Sat 14 Mar 2009 07:23:53 AM PDT