Re: [meteorite-list] Article : 21st Century Meteorite Falls, Part Two

2016-10-21 Thread Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list
Apparently I just found outanother hoax video...shamelooked convincing to me. On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Graham Ensor wrote: > But this looks promising Finbarr :-)...a couple of days ago...seems to be > heading for land over the Bristol channel into

Re: [meteorite-list] Article : 21st Century Meteorite Falls, Part Two

2016-10-21 Thread Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list
But this looks promising Finbarr :-)...a couple of days ago...seems to be heading for land over the Bristol channel into Southern UK perhaps when you check out the map it was too high and far on to land in the Bristol channel

Re: [meteorite-list] Article : 21st Century Meteorite Falls, Part Two

2016-10-20 Thread Galactic Stone & Ironworks via Meteorite-list
Hi Carl and List, I am just guessing about Morocco. It seems like Tissint really hammered home the notion of chasing meteorite falls there. We have seen a total of 4 witnessed falls in California since 2000 : Red Canyon Lake (2007) Sutter's Mill (2012) Novato (2012) Creston (2015) The only

Re: [meteorite-list] Article : 21st Century Meteorite Falls, Part Two

2016-10-20 Thread finbarr connolly via Meteorite-list
I find the relatively static number of falls very surprising, considering the proliferation of cameras compared to earlier times. Still waiting for our first British Isles fall of the 21st century! Finbarr. On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Carl Agee via Meteorite-list <

Re: [meteorite-list] Article : 21st Century Meteorite Falls, Part Two

2016-10-20 Thread Carl Agee via Meteorite-list
Always an interesting topic! A couple of things come to mind: Morocco has 8 falls in the 21st century, which you suggest has to do with the meteorite-savvy population and desert terrain. California has a very similar area and population density -- also a west facing coast line, a fair amount of

[meteorite-list] Article : 21st Century Meteorite Falls, Part Two

2016-10-20 Thread Galactic Stone & Ironworks via Meteorite-list
"...In the first 10 years of the 21st Century, we have seen 58 new meteorite falls (as of this writing). As we close out the first decade of this new century, let us examine some of the facts and numbers surrounding these recent falls. For the purposes of this article, we will only examine those