List, I just got back to town after a couple of days so I may have missed the answer, but the "fossil" meteorites Lake Murray and the other Scandinavian ones fell in the ocean. ----- Original Message ----- From: drtanuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bernd Pauli HD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Serguei Vassiliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites that fell into the water
> Serguei > One hit a Japanese ship and was promptly swept off of the ship. Other > parts probably hit the sea. Dirk Ross Tokyo > > Bernd Pauli HD wrote: > > > Hello Serguei and List, > > > > The most famous meteorite that fell into a pond or a stock tank is, of > > course, Pena Blanca Spring. See detailed description in Joel Schiff's > > METEORITE magazine: Meteorite! (May 2000, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 36-38). > > > > Some of the Siena stones have also been reported to have fallen into > > a pond: "Two astonished English ladies saw stones fall into a pond > > and splash out water that appeared to boil." The government had the > > pond drained and actually recovered some Siena stones [MARVIN > > U.B. (1996) E.F. Chladni (1756-1827) and the origins of modern > > meteorite research (Meteoritics 31-5, 1996, 558-561)]. > > > > Several Chinga specimens were found in the Chinga River basin. And > > there is the Djati-Pengilon H6 chondrite which fell into the Alastoeva > > river. > > > > Another celebrity is the Grosnaja CV3 chondrite. A shower of stones > > fell, after detonations, but only 1 of about 3.5 kg was recovered as > > the rest fell into the river Terek. > > > > Monte Milone, L5, brecciated: After detonations, many stones fell > > (some in the river Potenza) 8 miles from Macerata, Italy. > > > > Seymchan, a IIE iron of 272.3 kg was found in the bed of a stream > > flowing into the river Hekandue, a tributary of the Jasachnaja. > > > > Shirahagi, IVA, mass of 22.7 kg was found in the bed of the Kamiichi- > > kawa river. Saotome, which is structurally similar, was found in the > > same river 2 years later. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Bernd > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
