Alan,

I've added another page to my marsmeteorite web site. It is called boundary and shows the boundary layer between the 49ma and 13ma rocks. I have included the main picture with this document, but a second picture is on the web site taken under different lighting conditions. The picture included should help you determine the difference between the two types of rocks. The important thing to notice is that 36ma passed without anything happening. Maybe it was wet a few times, but that is all and everything is perfectly preserved, even though everything in and about the rock is very delicate. If the outside of the rock hadn't melted coming through the atmosphere, this rock would have no strength at all.

The hole you see was made when I drove a 1/2" copper tube into the rock. In this case, I was trying to determine how deep the red rock went. I found that the red rock at the point I took the sample is very thin and appears more like a sheet attached to the gray rock. I can see the boundary point and find numerous rounded silicon particles that appear to me to have been formed at the time the hot gray lava rolled over and through the sandy bed which contained the red rocks. I think these small rounded particles were formed when a number of the very fine highly silicon particles that make up most of the sand, melted together in little globules. Also, some of these same particles apparently formed when the rock was heated flying through the atmosphere, because I find some of these things stuck to the outer surfaces.

Also, I have conducted another experiment that even Buck doesn't know about, even though I have gone over all this other evidence with him as witnessed by over 20 letters that I have written him. The experiment was conducted to find out about the heat dissipation qualities of the structure and composition of the Frass Meteorite. I have only conducted this experiment once, as I don't want to damage the rock any more than necessary. I have a piece of the core sample that is about an inch long. I heated the end of this rock to over 800 degrees F and it was back to room temperature in less than 6 minutes. I think that, if I put the rock in a constant air current, I could hold one end of this inch long rock and raise the other end to a very hot temperature. I would be glad to conduct the experiment when I come to see you. I have done this to bolster my claims that this rock shows the appropriate amount of melting after making a trip through our atmosphere.

I have been accused of asking for too much time when I come to visit, but I hope you can see the amount of evidence I have accumulated. If someone wants to argue the fusion crust of this rock, then I just feel I should have an opportunity to present all the evidence including everything related to fusion crust. There is a reason that the fusion crust of this rock is different from other meteorites, but it is all within the realm of physics, something I do know a little about. If you have viewed my page on the fusion crust, you will see I have proposed a model showing the air currents of the rock and how it would have several mechanisms that actually tend to protect the rock and dissipate heat. Recently a fuel tank fell from orbit with little or no damage, just as the Frass rock fell with a minimal amount of actual damage. I only intend to argue physics and chemistry and aerodynamics. I guess it is really hard for me to understand why you guys aren't jumping for joy because I'm offering you the most valuable gift that any human can offer to mankind, the absolute proof that we are not the only life in the cosmos. This seems so important to me, that I can't understand why it isn't important to others. I'm not trying to argue for more time, I'm just telling you why I have asked for enough time to resolve all the conflicts that exist concerning the Frass Meteorite. If you guys are to prepare a report, shouldn't it be as accurate as possible?

I'm glad that you are from northern New Mexico. I too have spent a lot of time hiking and looking at the rocks of that area. Nothing I have ever see there is even similar to the Frass Meteorite. I hope we have this kinship in common. I have studied almost every major science except geology. I have never taken a formal geology class. But I have spent a lifetime hiking in the wilderness and I have looked at many rocks and I have learned that each one tells a story. One can look into the rock and see the forces that have acted on the rock through time. My education has always been a combination of learning the traditional science as taught by institutions, but also of training my eye to look at things that I find in nature and to understand the system that make them work. I have looked at many rocks and river beds and have been able to watch these systems evolve over time. I have watched as large rocks are dislodged over tens of years and finally fall to the ground below. I have watched as floods have changed the course of the river. I have watched as different sand stones dissolve at different rates and I can see the compressions of gravity within the very rocks themselves. What I can tell you from my experience, is that the Frass rock, when viewed with an open mind, looks to be a virgin rock that just came upon the landscape. Everything that you can view that is connected with this rock has never been under the surface and has never been compressed and thus has spent over 50 million years laying on the surface of some planet. That planet could not be Earth because our planet is too dynamic. If I had left the rock at the place I found it, it would be completely gone by now. That area flooded again last summer and the rock would have been washed into the Canadian River and would have been torn apart in that one flood. It is just too delicate to have survived the water and pounding it would have taken. If you will give me the time and view the rock openly and honestly, I think that you will come to the same conclusion.

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