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- From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>
- Subject: Re: Toutatis Captured by Radar Images
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.153634.5093@sfu.ca>
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- References: <20JAN199301453454@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan24.184001.22930@sfu.ca> <schumach.727906645@convex.convex.com> <1551@lyman.pppl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:36:34 GMT
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- In article <1551@lyman.pppl.gov> Bruce Scott, bscott@lyman.pppl.gov
- writes:
-
- >Actually, one important reason why people turned against the exploding
- >planet hypothesis was the discovery that certain classes of asteroids
- have
- >compositions which are not consistent with any scenario which involves
- >heating above 300 K. This and the fact that the property classes
- >(achondrite, C1 and C2 chondrite, enstatite, etc) are on isotopic grounds
- >irreconciliable with any single parent body are the reasons J S Lewis
- >argues against it.
-
- I'm going to look into the literature on this soon (I hope) because I have
- learned how far behind I've dropped, but tell me why it is necessary to
- have debris which has suffered temperatures greater than 300 K to have an
- explosion? There was an explosion in the lab next door to mine at Cal (I
- was in 304 LeConte) which had much debris originally at liquid oxygen
- temperature which didn't get *up to* 300 K until after the explosion was
- over! I acknowledge that some (probably central) portion of an exploding
- planet likely got very hot, but the bulk of the discorporated planet need
- not have seen high temperatures, and the parts that had were probably in a
- much finer state of division. The mesoscopic fragments, including
- meteorites, need never have seen high temperatures.
-
- I expect that the time scale for the explosion we are speculating about
- was much shorter than transport times for heat within the planet. Appeals
- to the lack of evidence for heating do not support the rejection of the
- explosion hypothesis.
-
- Leigh
-