[meteorite-list] Gilligan's Island Meteorite Answer

[Darren Garrison]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:52:12 EDT, MexicoDoug at aol.com wrote:

>Cosmic "rays" are typically nuclear particles, simply going  soooooo fast 
>after probable ejection from supernovas elsewhere, that each "ray"  a.k.a. 
>particle, packs a tremendous whallop.  The most powerful cosmic  "ray" on record, I 
>believe, (might be a proton or probably a nucleus of  something larger) with 
>the same energy as pitched 100 mph (160 km/hr) fastball  (baseball)!  That an 

I remembered a good Scientific American article on this from a few years back, and googled up a PDF
of it:

http://hires.phys.columbia.edu/papers/croninSciAm.pdf