[meteorite-list] More golden showers

[Darren Garrison]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:57:41 -0500, you wrote:

>
>    FOR MONTHS? Diamonds and gold rained from
>the sky for MONTHS? As dust, they explain -- diamond
>dust and presumably gold dust. I wonder how many tens
>of thousands of tons of diamonds they think were laying
>around on the Canadian tundra?

No, see, the initial compressed air leading the comet instantly crushed the
mammoths (which were made up largely of carbon) into diamonds!  Then, the strike
scattered them everywhere!

(Hm.  Better shut up before this theory shows up in the next press release).