[meteorite-list] Kerala Red Rain Was From A Comet, Study Suggests

[Darren Garrison]

On Wed, 31 May 2006 20:11:54 -0700, you wrote:

>Hi all:
>
>So was this like Bart's Comet (for those of you who know the Simpson's 
>cartoon) where Bart discovers a comet and it is always over Springfield as it 
>comes crashing to Earth. Actually the discovery was more accurate than any of 
>the disasteroid movies that come out at about the same time!
>

"So there's a commet. Big deal. It'll burn up in our atmosphere and whatever's
left will be no bigger than a Chihuahua's head."

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/bartscomet.gif

>How do you get a comet raining down material for three months over one city? 
>It would have to be geosynchronous (revolving once around the Earth in 24 
>hours so that is always over the same spot). For some reason, I doubt this.

Yeah, I had that same problem with the idea.