How The Peruvian Meteorite Made It To Earth

Science Daily ^ | 3-12-2008 | Brown University

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GGG Ping.

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Like stony meteorites, glass beads break apart when travelling at high speeds through the air, experiments show (left). But under the right conditions, the fragments can stay together in a dense swarm that can still gouge a crater on the ground (right) (Image: Peter Schultz et al/Brown

[Red Badger]

gravity?..............

[Recon Dad]

Peter Schultz, professor of geological sciences at Brown University and an expert in extraterrestrial impacts, went to Peru to learn more.

Yup, it’s a hole all right! Let’s go home.

[hellbender]

Schultz’s theory could upend the conventional wisdom that all small, stony meteorites disintegrate before striking Earth. If correct, it could change the thinking about the size and type of extraterrestrial objects that have bombarded the Earth for eons and could strike our planet next.

Sorry, Brown geologists. In the new era of politicized science (think GW), conventional wisdom can't be changed, at least without approval from the United Nations. Evidence doesn't count.

[Oatka]

“It was to the point that many thought this was fake. It was completely inconsistent with our understanding how stony meteorites act.”

While science is afflicted with fakes, a lot of neat and puzzling artifacts are automatically discounted because they are "inconsistent with our understanding".

Reminds me of the authorities when they find a perp that didn't fit their thinking. "He didn't fit the profile." No, the profile didn't fit him.

[Larry Lucido]

Mapquest?

[tanuki]

Interesting. A self-forming projectile.

[Minnesoootan]

I was wondering if the debris found 4 football fields away was in reference to a 9man,11man,arena,standard NFL field or a soccer field....I was hoping he would clarify

[Recon Dad]

Since he’s from Brown U, I’d say it’s a Soccer field.

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Like stony meteorites, glass beads break apart when travelling at high speeds through the air, experiments show (left). But under the right conditions, the fragments can stay together in a dense swarm that can still gouge a crater on the ground (right) (Image: Peter Schultz et al/Brown

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[frankenMonkey]

"...Schultz’s research could have implications for Mars, where craters have been discovered in recent missions..."

Thank goodness we've just recently discovered those craters on Mars.

[El Gato]

Interesting. A self-forming projectile.

That seems a like a very good analogy, at the least. It might be more than that.

[Ramius]

when they find a perp that didn't fit their thinking. "He didn't fit the profile." No, the profile didn't fit him.

Hah! I rather like that.

[r9etb]

I was wondering if the debris found 4 football fields away was in reference to a 9man,11man,arena,standard NFL field or a soccer field....I was hoping he would clarifY

And while they're at it, they could also specify whether the field was an electric or magnetic one.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

While science is afflicted with fakes, a lot of neat and puzzling artifacts are automatically discounted because they are "inconsistent with our understanding"..

Ironically, meteors themselves used to be in this category until at least the late 18th Century. The scientific wisdom went, "There are no stones in the sky, therefore no stones can fall from the sky."

For big fun mocking this sort of thinking by throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, into the mix, track down the books of Charles Fort.

[SunkenCiv]

Schultz's theory could upend the conventional wisdom that all small, stony meteorites disintegrate before striking Earth.

Heh... thanks blam.

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