>> happy to show you some mountain hospitality. And in between
>> huntin' and fishin', we'd have opportunity to look at some dust.
>> In my attic. I was just up there the other day noticin' it. Ya
>> know, Jim, I'm sure I just cleaned that outta there not more'n
>> nine, ten years ago. And it's already two inches thick! Well,
>> maybe I am inclined to exaggerate a little bit, but still, it
>> really is thick. Even if it's really only one and a half inches
>> thick, divided by 9 years (let me be conservative, just to give you
>> the benefit of the doubt) multiplied by 4.6 billion... Wow! Seems
>> like a lot of dust to me, Jim.
>>
>
>Good point Tony, it is my understanding that there is essentially a
>constant rate o fcosmic dust particles entering the earth's atmosphere
>from space and then gradually settling to the earth's surface.
>
>"Hans Pettersson obtained the figure of 14 million tons per year"
>
>Hans Pettersson, "Cosmic Spherules and Meteritic Dust," Scientific
>American, Vol. 202 (February 1960),p.132
>
>Also see G.S Hawkins, Ed., Meteor Orbits and Dust, published by NASA,
>1976.
Bad point Tony. The dust in your house has little or nothing to do with
meteors, it is caused by the wind picking up Earth surface dust and
redepositing it. Hans Pettersson went to the top of Mauna Loa (for you
country boys, that's a big mountain on a tiny island that sits in the middle
of a lake called the Pacific Ocean), collected dust, and assumed that all of
the nickle in the dust was due to cosmic influx. The problem is that
Pettersson's assumption (and measurement) were wrong and direct measurements
of cosmic dust influx (satellite data) found that he was off by a factor of
nearly 1000. Hmm.. if that makes my math correct...let's see 4.6 billion
years times the amount of dust per year.... yep about 2.5 inches. Sorry
Tony but the best data does not support your claim that you can use moon
dust to prove that the earth is young.
By the way there are these new things called libraries. I don't know if
they have them where you are, but you might want to try to find one and look
some of this stuff up.
Steve
Frank T. Awbrey, "Space Dust, the Moon's Surface, and the Age of the
Cosmos," Creation/Evolution, Vol 13, pp. 21-29