[FPSPACE] Confusion on the Launch Pad

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Quote: "About the only questions I have is why you're wasting my time with
this"

 

Comment: Pot - kettle - black.  Why don't you two bore/annoy each other in
private rather than make us all suffer?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org
[mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of E.P. Grondine
Sent: 02 May 2009 18:46
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Subject: [FPSPACE] Confusion on the Launch Pad

 

Hi Jens - 

>Arguing as you are, Ed, that 298 Baptistina with
>a near-circular orbit is a "captured dead comet"
>comes across, frankly speaking, like a load of bull!

I have no idea how Baptistina got there, nor can 






I come up with an exact explanation for how it did. 






I've had a stroke, and far far better minds than 






mine work on the mechanics of comet capture. 













But since none of those people are likely to give you the 






time of day... 













Baptistina is what it is, a carbonaceous






chondrite. Asteroid formation is increasingly 






understood through the studies of meteorites, 






and nothing in meteoritics that I know of explains 






carbonaceous chondrites having an asteroidal origin. 













Thus, since you're looking at a dead comet, I suggest 






that you try to come up with Baptistina's capture






mechanism for yourself. 













Perhaps it will help you along if I point out to you






the difference in the eccentricities of comets Halley and 






SW 3 which you mentioned in your message. If you 






can figure out how that difference came about, 






then you'll be well on your your way to understanding 






Baptistina's capture mechanism.













You might want to start your studies by looking






at long period comets and short period comets, 






and the hypothesis concerning the capture 






mechanisms involved.













In any case, Jens, your rationalizations have 






nothing to do with the impact hazard. Once again 






ELEs are due to comets, and we know this






from ELE periodicity.













 
In closing, Jens, denial is not simply a river 






in Egypt. About the only questions I have is why 






you're wasting my time with this, and the reasons






for your intensity. A first hypothesis is that you're






a manned Mars enthusiast who thinks that the US 






has nothing better to do with its money than fly 






a few men to Mars for a few days. 













E.P. Grondine






Man and Impact in the Americas


































 



Its a dead comet fragment none the less.

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