Replies

To: Fitzcarraldo

“Probably the effect of hot meteoritic material making contact with water and oxygen; my guess is that sulpher compounds are involved.”

It has been suggested by one scientist that it was not a meteor, but a gas eruption from underground.

15 posted on 09/19/2007 10:14:08 PM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)

To: AlexW

It has been suggested by one scientist that it was not a meteor, but a gas eruption from underground.

I'm willing to bet that guy is wrong. LOL

18 posted on 09/19/2007 10:23:50 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo

To: AlexW

Quite a bit “stinks” about the meteor idea.

For one thing, a meteor this small hits the earth at room temperature. It doesn’t glow, start fires, give off heat, etc.

23 posted on 09/20/2007 2:24:29 AM PDT by Strategerist

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794