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Donald J. Barry answered on January 12, 1998,
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If you found this answer useful, please considerIt has been difficult to confirm the claims of giant ice meteorites encountering the Earth, or to support this model against many criticisms which have been advanced against it. Here are a few of the reasons for a skeptical viewpoint.
- It is difficult to explain the absence of any visual evidence for these bodies. They would need to be cohesive enough to survive a lengthy period in the inner solar system without fragmentation and evaporation, yet fragile enough to break up far above the atmosphere into pieces uniformly so microscopic that a plasma trail (meteor) doesn't form.
- The impacts of these same bodies should be visible on the moon, which has no atmosphere to cause them to burn up. It is not.
- There should be seismographic evidence in the instruments which were briefly operated from the Apollo landers' science packages to show contact with the moon. There is none.
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