[meteorite-list] Re: Crackpot Theory Redux

[Darren Garrison]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:49:16 -0600, "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly at bhil.com> wrote:

>    Interesting (to me, anyway) is the fact that
>the heavy high speed nuclei have experienced so
>much relativistic increase in mass that a nuclei
>whose "weight" is a laughable concept will bulk up
>until it weighs as much a good sized bacterium!

The most energetic ones recorded to date have the energy of a baseball thrown and 100 miles per
hour.

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/dick/cos_encyc.html