Depends on whether you're relying on an old-fashioned or new-fangled definition to the phrase "witnessed to fall". I haven't seen any falls with my own eyes, but I've "seen" 5-6 meteorite falls on weather radar within minutes or hours of each fall. Sutter's Mill, Mifflin, Grimsby, Lorton, "Ash Creek", and now what appears to be a new fall in Nevada. That last one is particularly relevant - I believe based on my experience with other falls that I "see" meteorites that fell only a few days ago, but as of the time of this writing no one has actually "seen" meteorites first-hand (or at least reported it yet).
Cheers, Marc Fries On Aug 26, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote: > Who out there is the luckiest person when it comes to being in the right > place at the right time? How many recovered meteorite falls have you (A) > witnessed to fall or (B) have fallen within, say, 30 km of your location at > the time of fall? My fall number (A+B) is a pathetic 0+1=1. I wonder what > the record is in each category and for the total? > > Jeff > ______________________________________________ > > 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 ______________________________________________ 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
