[meteorite-list] An alternative origin of tektites

[Graham Christensen]

Really? I don't know a lot about tektites so I just assumed the guy would 
have done his research. What kind of emperical evidence do you have that 
refutes it?

Interested in learning more,
Graham
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Graham Christensen
voltage at telus.net
http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter
msn messenger: majorvoltage at hotmail.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles O'Dale" <codale0806 at rogers.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An alternative origin of tektites


>I had replied to the author of that piece of pseudoscience refuting all of 
>his points. He answered once with more pseudoscience. I refuted his reply 
>and have not heard from him since. The article was full of "it could have 
>happened this way" without the empirical evidence to back it up.
>
> I had complained to the editors of the RASC journal regarding the lack of 
> screening of their articles. Got lip service from them. I was shocked that 
> a reputable journal from the RASC would publish an article that could be 
> refuted so easily with empirical evidence. It showed a complete lack of 
> scientific research on articles received.
>
> I can forward the word file of my correspondence to anyone who is 
> interested.
>
> Cheers
> Charles O'Dale
> Meeting Chair
> Ottawa RASC
> http://www.ottawa.rasc.ca/astronomy/earth_craters/index.html
>
>>
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>> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:00:33 -0700
>> From: "Graham Christensen" <voltage at telus.net>
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] An alternative origin of tektites
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>> I read an article in the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada journal 
>> that
>> said that the Earth once had a ring of tektites or a system of rings 
>> around
>> it and when the supercontinent pangea formed, the earth's gravitational
>> field became lop-sided and the tektite material in the ring ended up in 
>> an
>> orbital resonance with pangea and the tektites formed a clump or "ring 
>> arc"
>> that was directly over pangea at perigee. When pangea broke up, the
>> resonance dissapeared and the ring arc's orbit began to decay The shape 
>> and
>> distribution of the australasian tektite strewnfield and the ablasion
>> characteristics of the tektites is consistent with a ring arc's orbit
>> decaying and eventually bringing the material crashing to earth at a low
>> angle.
>>
>> Furthermore, the tektites associated with the chesapeake bay crater may
>> infact have been dragged down by the impactor's gravitational field as it
>> passed through or near the rings and this may be the case with other 
>> tektite
>> fields as well.
>>
>> I have the article here on paper but I can't find it on the internet. I'm
>> not sure if this has been posted before but if anyone's interested I 
>> could
>> type up the text and E-mail it to the list.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Graham Christensen
>> voltage at telus.net
>> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter
>> msn messenger: majorvoltage at hotmail.com
>>
>>
>
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