Hi Robert and all, Someone was giving some statistics about a year or two back based on some logic of meteorites hitting objects and assuming that if some many hit something like a mailbox or car then we must have X amount of meteorites fall on the Earth at a given time. A possible search in the archives or maybe someone will remember and bring up these falls statistics so we can have them again.
Robert Dodd writes in his dated book (Thunderstones and Shooting Stars) that a recoverable meteorite 1 gram in size and larger should strike the Earth 16 trillion times each year! The larger the less often of course it will land in an area, while there are probably very small meteorites here and there he states that 8 meteorites per square mile. I once estimated using Dodd's information of flux that 1 gram meteorite lands on a 75 acre field per year or something close to that. The main trouble is finding them as a 1 gram stone on a 78 acre field is truly a needle in a haystack. Dodd provides these statistics on page 4 of his book. Best! --AL ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
