Chris, Eric, List,
Mazapil is a very old argument, indeed.
Take a look at:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2002M%26PS...37..649B
or the same at the author's website:
http://hyperion.cc.uregina.ca/~astro/Mazapil.pdf
and this one:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc1987/pdf/1377.pdf
Personally, the idea that comets drop iron meteorites
is silly. The fact that this is the one and only example, out
of thousands of falls, of the coinciding of a meteorite
fall with a meteor shower suggests to me that when you
flip coins often enough, a coin will land on its edge.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Meteorites USA" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor shower meteorite dropping events
Thanks for posting this Chris... This sounds like a good topic for an
article for my magazine. If you're interested in it, and/or would like
to write for the mag on this topic let me know. Anyone have a working
theory based on evidence of this associative phenomena? I've heard
many people suggest that meteor showers don't drop meteorites. Then
I've heard people associate meteorite falls that happen during meteor
showers with said shower. And I've also heard that people believe that
there is ZERO connection and it's purely coincidence.
So which is it? yay or nay, or maybe? or no one really knows...?
Eric
On 8/11/2010 8:59 PM, Chris Spratt wrote:
I know of one meteor shower (November Andromedids) where an iron
meteorite fell in Mazapil, Mexico during the shower.
Are there any similar events?
Chris Spratt
Victoria, BC
(Via my iPhone)
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