On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Kim <kimharch@cut.net> wrote:
The whole point of the original "proposal" was to determine what happens to space rocks that might impact the hard, dense salt crust of the Salt Flats. I did not realize just how hard the salt is until I first went to the Flats to hunt for meteorites, and I wondered whether small rocks might just ricochet or if they would penetrate the salt and essentially disappear.
Kim, take a look at this website. Lots of good info there on strewnfields in dry lake beds. Much of the data you're after may already exist. http://www.meteorite.com/blog/california-strewn-field/ It appears that anything large enough "punch through" would actually leave a small crater, which would get filled-in fairly quickly. Due to my limited free time, I'd be more likely to participate in a coordinated search, rather than drop/ballistic tests.