Hi List! Everyone can stop replying. We have a winner - Bernd Pauli! :)
I received several correct responses, but Bernd was the first (by barely a minute) to respond with all 3 correct answers. He are the questions and answers : 1) Okechobee is one of 5 approved meteorites from Florida. Okechobee was found in 1916 under somewhat unusual circumstances - it was not your typical find. Where and how was this L4 meteorite recovered? As stated in the Catalogue of Meteorites - "Fragments weighing about 1kg were brought up in a net some 0.75 miles from the shore..." Apparently this meteorite was underwater and raised by fishing nets. Now, what are the chances that a fisherman was going to see this apparent ugly rock as a meteorite and think to save it? I'd love to know the full story of this recovery. I can imagine that an L4 chondrite laying on the bottom of a body of water would be heavily oxidized and covered in algae. It probably didn't look like a meteorite at all - especially to a fisherman. Why didn't he throw it back? 2) Which of these lunar meteorites has the longest measured cosmic exposure age? Dhofar 025 or Kalahari 009? Dhofar 025 by far - Kalahari 009 is one of the youngest of cosmic exposure ages. 3) 1979 was a busy season for Japanese meteorite researchers in Antarctica. How many meteorites did they find that year in the Yamato Mountains area? A close number would suffice here. The Catalogue of Meteorites states that 3690 meteorites were recovered. The Met Bulletin states a slighty different figure. I would have accepted any number 3600 or greater. Bernd nailed it - he must have a copy of the Catalogue handy. ;) My thanks to everyone who responded! Best regards and clear skies, MikeG ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list