At 09:30 AM 8/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Mainz,  August 24,  2000.
> >
> >Press release--Oxygen-17 rejoins the table of the isotopes--
> >
> >
> >The otherwise so stable isotope community was in a state of turmoil by
> >Oxygen-17's unexpected move back into the table of the isotopes. "I regret
> >my intemperance over the last decades, but one must understand that my
> >celestial position, achieved by Clayton's discovery of my subtle anomaly in
> >meteorites, was crashed down suddenly by one single scientific paper. "I
> >simply could not bear the down to earth, …or atmosphere, fact that any
> >college kid could increase my abundance disproportionate to my exact mass
> >difference with brother 18O, by blasting sparks through oxygen" After a
> >small interruption, Oxygen-17 continued saying "with Mark Thiemens'
> >experiment I felt I had lost all significance I had" "I was not a
> >nucleosynthetic factor anymore".
>
>         This oxygen-17 has delusions of grandeur. It is big brother 16O who
>causes the anomalies!
>                                                 Bob Clayton

17O's delusion is in being the favorite son of stars, but nature was still
conciliatory and gave
to him the realm of atmospheres but decided that it will have to be shared
with his 18O brother.
The ozone anomaly has nothing to do with 16O.