Lake Erie is not frozen. But people are on the ground now searching close to the lake. Hopefully something will come of this.
Mike Tettenborn Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada [email protected] > > > > Howdy ladies and gents > > A prominent fireball was seen across the Great Lakes area last > night, to include a smoke trail and large detonation. We have located the > event site in radar, seismometer, and eyewitness accounts, and radar > indicates a strong possibility that meteorites may be found from this event. > Most of the strewn field lies on Lake Erie itself, but the lake might be > frozen at the fall site. This means two things - although it might be > difficult to reach the site, any meteorites should be relatively easy to > find. Second, meteorites on a frozen lake should have reduced terrestrial > contamination, much like Tagish Lake. This would make the meteorites > especially valuable to both scientists and collectors. If you find > meteorites from this event, please be especially careful in handling them. > We recommend using clean aluminum foil to pick them up, and wrapping them in > at least one layer of foil. Then place them in either a ziplock bag or a > clean glass jar (glass is preferred because it doesn' > t off-gas chemicals). > > Good luck! > > http://wp.me/p2AyTK-i4 > > Cheers, > Marc Fries, Rob Matson, Jake Schaefer, Jeff Fries Galatctic Analytics LLC > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
