[blam]

[Seruzawa]

Hmmm. I thought they knew everything.

[colorado tanker]

A piece of Alderaan after the Death Star blew it up?

[Fzob]

"From what has been reported so far, it's pretty clear that the meteorite is not from the Earth, or the moon, or Venus, or any of the common sources of meteorites," he said. "It's much harder to know where it is from."

Not from Earth??? What!!! How does a meteorite originate from Earth?

[Cacique]

btt

[Hot Tabasco]

rusty and salty and smelled like rotten eggs

No question about it, they're from Uranus.......

[Renfield]

This should be a no-brainer. If it is “rusty and salty, and smells like rotten eggs”, it comes from the bottom of some ocean. Salt-iron-hydrogen sulfide—all constituents of marine sediments. Perhpaps, from the planet that used to occupy the orbit where the asteroid belt now is? (”Maldek”)

[GreenHornet]

Mysterious Meteorites Stymie Scientists

I always wondered what became of Stymie. So he grew up to become a scientist, did he? Good for him!

[two-edged-sword]

I think the Thing may pop out of it! Lookout!

[SunkenCiv]

I should have known you’d have posted this. :’)

Astronomy Picture of the Day 12-26-02
[”Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica”]
NASA | 12-26-02 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell
Posted on 12/25/2002 10:07:14 PM PST by petuniasevan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/812313/posts

Giant Crater Found [in Antarctica]:
Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever [Permo-Triassic]
SPACE.com | June 2, 2006 | Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 06/02/2006 11:44:43 AM PDT by cogitator
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642426/posts

Does a giant crater lie beneath the Antarctic ice?
nature news | 2 06 | Mark Peplow
Posted on 06/05/2006 9:07:10 AM PDT by S0122017
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1643681/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

When I found a link to Mysterious meteorites may be remnants of destroyed dwarf planet, I did a search and turned up this topic by Blam. Sorry I missed it before...

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