Re-Hello Graham
Being new to the list, I am a bit "overwhelmed"... sorry !
But your name rang a bell...
So thank you for your valuable answer to this question !
Btw, does anybody else have anything to say/add to it ?
Michael B
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To: <[email protected]>; "Michael Bross"
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Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Parry Sound, Ontario meteor 5MAR08 any updates
on meteorite recovery?
Hi Michael,
I have a small meteorite fragment from a fall in 2003 that was found
within yards of a beach just weeks after. It had already deteriorated very
badly because of the salty wet atmosphere. Pieces from further inland
showed hardly any weathering...so I suspect that any meteorite containing
nickel/iron (and most do) would not last long in salt water unless it was
very large, and then it would also be less likely to be washed up. I think
micro meteorite samples have however been recovered from sea
sediments....but they are not likely to have iron in I suspect.
The regular meteor showers such as the Leonids have never had any
confirmed/associated meteorites attached to them as far as I know as they
are from dust trails we pass through (too small to survive). Many people
have tried to look at the frequency of these showers and link them with
meteorites with no definite success.
Hope that helps...I do not know of any meteorite that has been recorded
being washed up on the beach...anybody else on the list know?
Graham Ensor, UK
---- Michael Bross <[email protected]> wrote:
> While I have heard nothing further, the linked maps suggest whatever
> survived may have splashed into Georgian Bay.
> Mark
Hello List
This makes me rebound on questions I had prepared for the list
- do you know of any occurrence of a meteorite found on a beach, coming
from
the ocean ?
- if not, why ? Are they not looked for ? Or are they just not
"expectable"
?
I lived many years on Long Island (NY) and remember especially the mid
90s
with amazing tides:
El Nino + Equinox tides bringing ashore from the near coastal depths,
shells, beautiful weathered
glass pieces, stones, that we usually didn't see.
We found a 200 years old small snail like shell at Nino time. Just lying
on
the beach.
Not counting old amazing Horseshoe crab shells...
There was also the magnificent and powerful Leonid shower from 1997 (or
1996?)
... some meteorites must have gone to the ocean, no ?
I am just very curious about this.
Off course the found meteorites would certainly be weathered, rounded
etc...
by their
stay in the salty and rough ocean... but knowing that the undersea
plateau
is wide and
long and that tides can bring up elements from this plateau floors...
well,
there might be
some meteorites in it...
Or am I totally nut to think that way ?
And this would count for most of all coastal areas in the world.
Cheers
Michael Bross
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