That's true, but people routinely recover meteorites that have been on the ground for longer than that. And not all of the apparent strewn field area is farmland - there is a fairly large amount of wooded area there that has not been plowed.
One of the things that I find amusing about the Meteorite List is that when there is the real possibility that there are meteorites to be found, the list tends to go silent! I don't have a comment on that other than to say that it makes me chuckle. Cheers, Marc Fries On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Richard Kowalski wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this from a fall that occurred 3 1/2 > years ago? > > Not that I am taking anything away from Marc's efforts, but if the stones > have been the ground that long, I'd suspect that most have been plowed under > several times and become well weathered. That might explain why there hasn't > been any discussion so far. > > > -- > Richard Kowalski > Full Moon Photography > IMCA #1081 > > > --- On Fri, 9/24/10, Meteorites USA <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Meteorites USA <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New radar post - I suspect that y'all are >> going to want to see this >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Friday, September 24, 2010, 11:06 AM >> Looks good! Good work Marc. Funny how >> all the so called meteorite people >> don't have a comment in 10 whole hours since your post. No >> yay, no >> nay... Just silence... LOL Maybe they're all packing >> they're bags or >> maybe already be in the field out there searching... ;) >> >> Regards, >> Eric >> >> On 9/24/2010 12:59 AM, Marc Fries wrote: >>> Howdy all, >>> >>> I'm quite pleased with this >> one. Looks like a very nice meteorite fall from recent >> radar data archives: >>> >>> http://radarmeteorites.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/jacksonville-il-05-feb-07-0144-utc/ >>> >>> Enjoy! >>> Marc Fries >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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
