Radiobiologists have long believed that ionizing radiation, like gamma rays, kills cells by shattering DNA. When the researchers bombarded radiation-resistant bacteria with gamma rays, manganese appeared to protect proteins from a form of oxidative damage called carbonylation. Cobalt(II) iodide is used as a catalyst for carbonylation. Carbonylation refers to reactions that introduce carbon monoxide into organic and inorganic substrates. As we always say in Rock-medicine ‘like’ heals ‘like’. For 30 years we have been searching for the correct form of cobalt to use in Rock-medicine. As the seventh cleanser, I believe this is it…
As a given as a common treatment for radiation toxicity, iodine collects in the thyroid. It takes up space that radioactive iodine would occupy. Without room to stay in the thyroid, the radioactive iodine is sent out of the thyroid and excreted with urine. John H. Reynolds, physicist, in 1960 discovered that certain meteorites contained an isotopic anomaly in the form of an overabundance of 129Xe. He inferred that this must be a product of long-decayed radioactive iodine-129. Iodine-129 (129I) is long-lived radioisotope of iodine which occurs naturally, but also is of special interest in the monitoring and effects of man-made nuclear fission decay products, where it serves as both tracer and potential radiological contaminant.
The “Zag” meteorite, so named for having landed near Zag, Morocco in August 1998, originally weighed around 175kg. The Monahans meteorite landed in Texas on 22 March 1998. Both are thought to have originated from the same, larger, parent body. Asteroid 6 Hebe (classified as being an S(IV)-type asteroid) is often suspected as being the probable parent body of the H-type ordinary chondrites (such as Zag and Monahans). Asteroid 6 Hebe has an estimated diameter of around 120 miles. Its orbit is resonant with that of Earth, thus providing a rather efficient means of sending fragments on Earth-crossing trajectories toward Earth.
Since the Zag meteorite landed, pieces have shown up for sale around the world. Zag is classified as an ordinary chondrite meteorite and was once part of a larger body blasted apart some 300 million years ago. Zag is a breccia, a fragmented rock composed of angular pieces cemented together by a fine-grained matrix. Its parent body contained rocky material, salt crystals, water ice, and radioactive isotopes.
The Manchester team hypothesizes that the decay of the radioactive material within the original parent body provided enough heat energy such that the water ice present melted and evaporated, leaving the salt crystals (formed of sodium chloride or ‘halite’) behind. Within these halite crystals are very small pockets or “inclusions” that contain water.
It was important for the research team to be certain that this water was not a terrestrial contaminant. They were able to confirm the extraterrestrial origin of the water by measuring Xenon, Iodine, and Argon isotopes contained within the halite crystals. A large amount of Xenon-129 was found. Xenon-129 forms when Iodine-129 decays. Once it decays it becomes the only form of non-radioactive, non-hazardous, cobalt. While Iodine-129 was in existence in the early solar system, it is not found on Earth today. This isotope is produced in quantity in nature only in supernova explosions.
This is the form we need to treat the thyroid gland in us and the entire planet for man made radiation toxicity. How else would we get it but from meteorites?
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