The smatering of these "land" smacks dramatically points to the vast number
of "lost at sea" falls.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Cressy" <[email protected]>
To: "meteoritelist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 11:45 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Fw: Re: More Meteorite Geography Trivia
Hello All,
Michael wrote:
1) Jamaica has one known meteorite, Lucky Hill, an
iron IIIAB. What are the chances of a meteorite landing on
a relatively small island in the middle of a sea? This
meteorite could have easily ended up on the bottom of
the Caribbean, but instead it gets to spend it's days
in a tropical beach paradise.
I think Hawaii goes one better. Two meteorite falls,
Honolulu (1825) and Palolo Valley (1949) both fell on Oahu,
a small island in the much larger Pacific Ocean. Incidently
both meteorites fell in the capitol of Honolulu only about five miles from
one another.
Cheers,
Frank
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