Statistically improbable, agreed. I'll toss in some more believable Maine meteorite trivia I believe I read in The Works of Nininger and have to rely on memory as my copy is in storage. There was a report of an impact in remote Maine which reached Harvey so he promptly went to investigate. He found a substantial (30ft diameter?) crater-like feature in a peat bog where debris had been flung onto the faces of trees facing the watery pit. Beneath the water, the bottom of the pit was of course peat with the consistency of butter. This was one of those "quaking earth" type bogs where the ground was springy and spongy where one walked upon it. After lengthy but difficult haphazard probing, nothing was located. There was some discussion that there might be something offset from the pit and under the rim and that is where the story/memory goes silent other that nothing meteoritical was found.
That is the story and I am sticking to it. Anyone have the specifics? Elton ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bob Loeffler <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 11:31:37 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Twice Blessed Yankee Lobsterman > > Hi Dave, > > Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any mention of either meteorite in the > Meteorical Bulletin database, so those two "meteorites" were probably never > proven to be real meteorites. > > Regards, > > Bob Loeffler > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David > Gunning > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [meteorite-list] Twice Blessed Yankee Lobsterman > > > Greetings to all from this brand new list newbie. Wondering if anyone > has any info on a Maine coastal double meteorite "find" at Round Pond, > Maine, that occurred several years ago? > > Seems a lobsterman was hauling his lobster boat up the public boat ramp > and out of the water for the winter season, back in 1953. Happening to > glance down at the ground at his feet and spied a 5 lb. 10 oz. meteorite > quietly sunning itself on the rocky beach. A remarkable find and made > all the more remarkable, perhaps, by the fact that the same lobsterman, > 16 years later in 1969, hauling the same boat out of the same harbor, at > the same public boat ramp, glanced down at his feet and found another > meteorite, a 6 lb. 4 oz. beauty sunning itself, as well, midst the great > slabs of metamorphosed granite and gneiss. Maine's only double meteorite > find. > > I am trying to find-out what type and classification those two coastal > sun bathing lobster loving meteorites are (were) and their eventual fate. > > Anyone knows the ultimate disposition of these two missing Maine > lobsterized meteorites, please pass the butter, and let me know. Thanks. > > Best wishes, > > Dave Gunning > > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.856 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3143 - Release Date: 09/28/10 > 00:34:00 > > ______________________________________________ > 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
