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

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Darren G. agreed:

>>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.
 
While it is easy to be critical and even devilishly  satisfying to mock this 
theory, as long as we all agree that we don't agree  with the proponents of 
the comet idea, expend the time in those details? (except  Martin, who actually 
seems to be in contact with the 'researchers' and  might influence positively 
what is going on out there).  Still, just  because it is an off-the-wall 
theory that seems to be in obvious trouble, it  would take some more scientific 
explaining to discount the possibility  that the mysterious red dust entered the 
atmosphere and and took a  while to settle down as it combined in the 
droplets.  Granted, three  months if that is the number sounds crazy, but wind 
currents and gusts lifting  it off the ground bherever it fell is an alternate to 
flaming them in  absentia with the "geostationary" idea.  Micrometeorites take a 
couple  of weeks to settle.
 
Saludos, Doug