Greg inquired: "Has a meteorite "fall" ever been attributed to a comet? If so, do they know which one? I remember reading that Tagish Lake may be."
Hi Greg and List, The Mazapil (IAB-sLL) iron was once believed to have fallen during a star shower! BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris - Meteorites in History, p. 166: At the end of the nineteenth century, there was no sufficiently convincing factual data that favored the theory that metorites originated in nebulae and/or comets, or that they were pieces of a planetary body. Some support for the cometary theory accrued from the fall of the 4-kg Mazapil meteoritic iron during a star shower on 27 November 1885, since the fragments of Biela's comet, previously dispersed, were thought to have caused the shower. Best wishes, Bernd ______________________________________________ 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
