Bjorn,
You may be right but, this seems to be a lot like Carancas as well. Lots of
peas and the rest is soup. Also, like Carancas an ordinary chondrite, big in
the news and historically important and high priced at first but, due to small
sizes it might be very easy to satisfy collectors needs and the high price will
fade quickly. Hopefully they find a lot more when things thaw out to keep the
price affordable.
Carl
meteopritemax
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Cheers
Bjorn Sorheim astro...@online.no wrote:
List,
Looking at the images I posted earlier today and the other smaller
fragments goverment scientists collected plus information about 1000+
small black meteorites from maybe one village, it seems this fall
deserves to be compared to the massive fall of pea-sized meteorites
like Pultusk, Poland 1868 (H5).
An asteroid with 1 tons of mass will retain a very large percentage
of its cosmic velocity, so the energy will break it up in probably just
smaller fragments. So maybe what is out there in South Ural is
mostly these meteorite peas?
On the light side The Pultusk fall with 18! total fragments had
200 over 1 kg, with largest 9 kg, so there is still hope...
Bjørn Sørheim
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