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" A trail of dust debris from an incoming meteor may take much longer to dissipate in the mesosphere than a cloud of the same size lower down." Making it even
by jonhendry 16y ago
" A trail of dust debris from an incoming meteor may take much longer to dissipate in the mesosphere than a cloud of the same size lower down."
Making it even less likely that it would all land in the same place.
Adding unusual atmospheric phenomena on top of everything else just makes this more and more absurd.
- anigbrowl 16y agoIt didn't all land in the same place. The 2006 paper mentioned upthread documents 124 separate reports, spread along a path over 300 miles in length down the coastline of India's Kerala province. Nor am I not suggesting any unusual atmospheric phenomena; I'm pointing out that that part of the atmosphere is known to differ substantially from lower altitudes. Multiple interacting tides, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_tide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_tide