Hello List, As the number of individual stones cited in the literature vary widely, it is really difficult to come up with accurate numbers and a reliable TKW. Some examples that show what I mean:
1. Quenstedt, Tübingen, 1872, in lectures on geology, p. 299: "... Pultusk near Warsaw where they probably fell in the one hundred thousands." 2. Another source that I cannot trace back exactly but which must have been published about the same time (maybe M. Neumayr, 1895, Leipzig and Vienna): "The Paris Mueseum of Natural Sciences alone houses 950 complete stones." 3. SEARS D.W.G. (1978) The Nature and Origin of Meteorites, p. 33: "The largest was probably Pultusk, which was composed of some 100000 fragments." 4.. NORTON O.R. (1998) Rocks From Space, 2nd edition, pp. 73-74: "Over one hundred thousand stones (possibly as many as three hundred thousand) rained down near the Polish town of Pultusk." 5. The "Blue Book" said: " [an] estimated 2000 kg fell, total number of fragments having been about 180000." Cheers, Bernd ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list