Yes, it would have to be a first recovery to eliminate any dispute, I think. I am thinking of a situation where the fireball was witnessed and well documented, but no locals saw, heard, nor found any stones. I suppose if the triangulation hunter came along and defined the search area fairly narrowly to begin with, then recruiting locals to help search that area wouldn't necessarily disqualify a find. Basically, I'm wondering what's the first find that would probably not have occurred without accurate triangulation calculations?
-DR On Oct 23, 2011, at 5:14 PM, MexicoDoug wrote: > Hi Tocayo (that's what you'd call me, you probably would sign Doug, but still > it isnt wrong use, just not as common use) > > Martin now says no to Lost City ... and There is more than this to it. How > do you count a situation where a fireball is triangulated the hunter arrives > at the strewn field and offers an incentive to them. The question needs to > be further limited to the first recovery, I think? But what of the case > where a local finds one and the triangulation hunter comes and without input > finds a fragment at a later date. > > I am thinking that the US would be the most likely place and a tiny > possibility of it being one of the few witnessed falls from about 1850 to > date when triangulation became refined. > > But we get back to the same thing. Nininger set this sort of program up, but > did he ever succeed in finding the first based on anecdotes and tips where no > one had seen a stone but the phenomenon was observed and related to the > hunter wh crunched that. > > I can't think of one offhand that Nininger found cold based on triangulation. > There are Nininger gurus on the list that could say! Not me on this one... > > Kindest wsihes > Doug > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Ross <[email protected]> > To: MexicoDoug <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 6:58 pm > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Triangulation (was ...Part II: American David > Rittenhouse (Warning - Pre-Chladni)) > > > Not until the 1970's? Really? I understand that we now have great modern > advantages for accurate triangulation, with sky-cams, radar data, and the > like. And granted, even with all of this technology, strewn fields are often > difficult to pinpoint today. But it's hard to believe that it took over 150 > years after general scientific acceptance of the fireball/meteorite > connection for somebody to start accurately tracking these suckers. > > Perhaps I could refine the question to help narrow the possible contenders. > Who was the first person to recover meteorites from a witnessed fall based on > triangulation calcualtions *without the benefit of anecdotal information or > finds by local residents (apart from fireball reports)*? > > -Tocayo > [email protected] > Doug Ross [email protected] ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
