Mammoths hit by Micrometeorites

DavidU (Dave) · #1 05-11-2009, 02:54 PM

This would have hurt !
I wonder how common it may be?
http://ie.lbl.gov/mammoth/impact_old.html

TrevorW · #2 05-11-2009, 02:55 PM

bet you they had mammoth headaches ???

multiweb (Marc) · #3 05-11-2009, 03:02 PM

That's where the old sayin' came from: "...never stay under a mammoth when there's a meteor shower"

renormalised (Carl) · #4 05-11-2009, 03:15 PM

Very interesting....I've heard of Mono Lake before, but never in conjunction with this. I'm going to look into this.

DavidU (Dave) · #5 05-11-2009, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by renormalised

Very interesting....I've heard of Mono Lake before, but never in conjunction with this. I'm going to look into this.

Yes ! Very interesting.I don't know how 350micron< particles could be travelling so fast in an atmosphere.

renormalised (Carl) · #6 05-11-2009, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidU

Yes ! Very interesting.I don't know how 350micron< particles could be travelling so fast in an atmosphere.

Airburst meteoroid or asteroid impact.

DavidU (Dave) · #7 05-11-2009, 03:46 PM

I found something I read years ago. I wonder if it is related and if so just how much damage was done to early humans & fauna
http://www.s8int.com/page4.html
3/4 down the page

DJDD · #8 05-11-2009, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TrevorW

bet you they had mammoth headaches ???

renormalised (Carl) · #9 05-11-2009, 04:34 PM

Maybe, but a meteoroid the size large enough to leave a bullet sized hole wouldn't be traveling fast enough to do so in the first place, unless it was a fragment from an airburst close to the ground.

Who's to say it isn't a bullet hole.