[meteorite-list] Crackpot impact theory

[Darren Garrison]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:04:26 -0400, "Pete Pete" <rsvp321 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>Why do you call this a "crackpot" theory?

Among other things, the idea that material from a supernova would condense into a "comet like
object", that this 10-kilometer wide "comet like object" struck North America 13,000 years ago.  Two
absurdities right there.  And that little iron particles would reach the ground traveling at ten
thousand kilometers per second.  And that little iron particles traveling at 10,000 kilometers per
second would just make tiny craters in something that they struck.  And that a shotgun pellet fired
at 1,000 kilometers per hour couldn't penetrate a piece of fossil ivory.  And I'm sure that there
are plenty of other idiotic parts to it if you dig down.