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Re: (meteorobs) Dark Flight & recovery temperatures (Wayne's comment)
At 04:33 PM 12/27/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Wayne,
>
>It is not as absurd a suggestion as it might seem. Cosmic irradiation does
>produce a whole suite of very short lived cosmogenic nucleides in meteorites
>with decay times of a few weeks, a few days, a few hours. For the latter two
>categories: these decay in the hours and days directly after the fall and
>after that they are gone and you can't measure them. This is one reason why
>snip
>a two centuries ago). Therefore, a handwarm meteirte could glow by
>Thermoluminiscence I suggest.
>
>- Marco
>
Though it met with a completely negative response I still feel that
pyrophoric ( self igniting ) metal powders offer a more plausible
explanation for glowing meteorites than any of the other explanations put
forward. My criticism of most other expalnations is quantitative. Yes they
all could produce light but the amount would be too small to detect other
than by the very sensitive detectors used in quantitative measurement of
archaelogical remains etc.
I have not managed to follow up my theory any further yet but will report
when I do.
Nick
Nick Martin, Bonnyton House, By Ayr, Ayrshire KA6 7EW ,Scotland, UK.
Latitude 55 24'56" Longitude 4 26' 00".
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