Walter, Yes, there are documented strewnfields which prove more than one classification does exist within a single area. But, Now that Almahatta Sitta has been found to have several different classes within one fall it seems to me this changes everything. In fact as you know they were so confused by the differences that they tested every single find to be absolutely sure they were all from just one fall. I believe they decided that they were in fact all from one fall. This makes buying and selling Almahatta Sitta a bit tricky because you may not actually get the Ureilite you are expecting. You may get some other classification all together. It has been widely speculated that this fall was a real smorgasbord of many different types that possibly all collided together in space at some point prior to colliding with Earth. In addition there are two distinct irons that have been found within the Canyon Diablo strewnfield just to name one more. . Nininger refers to the second higher nickel one as CD 2, I believe. So, What this might tell us is that our past Science about overlapping strewnfields may have been the wrong theory. Maybe these odd balls hit and mix elsewhere in space and land together on Earth. They don't even have to be the same age or the same class for that matter. Who is to say that an old fall did not collide with a newer fall while still in space? Seems to me we may need to rethink and recheck this whole theory. Carl -- Carl or Debbie Esparza Meteoritemax
---- Walter Branch <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I'm simply saying it seems like an awfully big >coincidence to me that they > >hit the same location > > Not at all. > > Given the fact that every spot on earth has an equal probability of being > impacted by a meteorite, the fact that two meteorites fell within a mile or > so of each other is just random variation. It only seems like it is more > than a coincidence because they were witnessed falls that hit houses and > both were L6 - a very common classification.. > > There are documented strewnfields within strewnfields. Once they enter the > Earth's atmosphere, these things have to fall somewhere. So many variables > determine the eventual impact site, that over a long period of time (e.g., > billions of years) these variables become random and they fall where they > do. > > Which means my backyard is equally likely to receive a meteorite as the same > dimension of land in Antarctica, or the Atlantic ocean for that matter, only > I haven't lived in my house long enough to see it happen: But eventually, > my backyard will receive a meteorite: again and again and again... > > And in eons past, it probably already has. > > -Walter Branch > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
