Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matson, Robert D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter A Shugar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
"LIST" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Still un answered question
Nope. Just *ONE* meteorite hunter -- Skip Wilson -- a very methodical
and thorough one. "A meteorite every 22.5 square miles" doesn't really
tell the story -- Skip searched (continues to search?) a much smaller
area than this, but he is very selective about the surfaces searched.
In ideal locations, the meteorite density is much, much higher than
1 per 22.5 square miles. If the average terrestrial lifetime of a
meteorite is, say, 5000 years, the expected density is more like 3
meteorites per square mile. --Rob
P.S. Feel free to forward this to the meteorite list. You'll see
that I included it in the "To" list, but I guarantee it won't show
up there.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:25 AM
To: Peter A Shugar; LIST
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Still un answered question
Sounds like ideal search conditions and a hulava lot of meteorite
hunters.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter A Shugar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LIST" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:04 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Still un answered question
Still unanswered is the other question:
And then there is little dinky Roosevelt Co, NM at just 2,455 sq miles
and
it has a staggering 109 meteorites, which comes to one for every 22.5
sq
miles. What gives?
They are of a wide variety of classifications, so it can't be turning
every piece in
for classification. I can't speak for anyone else, but I find this
very
puzzling.
Any thoughts, List?
Pete
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