[meteorite-list] Meteorite Yields Carbon Crystals Harder ThanDiamond

[al mitt]

Greetings all,

I seriously doubt that the diamonds formed from pressure and heat entering 
the Earth's Atmosphere. The interior of meteorites usually stay cold all the 
way to the ground, except for rare acceptions.

Diamonds from impact would be another story.

--AL Mitterling
>From Sunny Tucson


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:23 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Yields Carbon Crystals Harder 
ThanDiamond

>experienced the intense heat and pressure of entering the Earth's
>atmosphere and crashing into the ground. The graphite layers would
>have been heated and shocked enough to create bonds between them, in
>much the same way as humans manufacture
>diamonds.