Not sure what you read in the article but, I got that he thought the meteor could have been as big as 5 feet in diameter and was hoping that someone could find a softball size sample. It is a wet and very wooded area with no roads. Oh, other SWAGS were, Canyon Diablo: size of a house, Chelyabinsk: size of a bus, Almahata Sita: size of a van. Dennis Miller IMCA #1434 Meteoritical Society #5745
Sent from my iPad > On May 24, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Brian Cox via Meteorite-list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm very curious as to how this gentleman at the Mineral Museum in Maine > determined that the Maine meteorite is approximately 5 inches in diameter, > and "about the size of a softball." > > Did he have a Super Telescope he was viewing it through at the time, or how > did he determine through weather or TV station, or parking lot cameras, or > cell phone video with some math equation that it was the size of a softball? > I honestly hope they find a piece that large, and that they find it by this > summer or fall before the first big snow in the area. > Brian Cox > IMCA# 6387 >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 04:09:23 -0700 >> From: "Shawn Alan" <[email protected]> >> To: "Meteorite Central" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [meteorite-list] $20,000 for the Maine meteorite fall. >> Message-ID: >> >> <20160523040923.e8713c95af9984a493c5db01816d4c10.ec18bccd74....@email22.godaddy.com> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hello Listers >> >> I guess there is a reward for a piece of the meteorite fall in Maine. >> $20,000. I wonder if that's for the main mass, or a piece of the Lunar >> meteorite? >> >> Link: >> http://www.khou.com/news/weird/museum-offers-reward-and-tips-to-find-meteorite/202576172 >> >> Shawn Alan >> IMCA 1633 >> ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html >> Website http://meteoritefalls.com > ______________________________________________ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the > Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
