[meteorite-list] More Meteorite Geography Trivia
Some more meteorite-geography trivia : 1) Jamaica has one known meteorite, Lucky Hill, an iron IIIAB. What are the chances of a meteorite landing on a relatively-small island in the middle of a sea? This meteorite could have easily ended up on the bottom of the Caribbean, but instead it gets to spend it's days in a tropical beach paradise. (I hope it's stored with some dessicant!) 2) Iran has only 2 known meteorites - both of them witnessed falls! Naragh is an H6 hammer stone that penetrated the roof of a school on August 18, 1974. No casualties were reported. The other fall is Veramin, a mesosiderite, which fell around April 18, 1880. Veramin has been kept in Tehran's Golestan Palace since then. 3) Ireland has 6 recorded meteorites - all of them witnessed falls. (The Tanzanians have competition!) All of Ireland's meteorites have been OC's and one remains unclassified - Pettiswood. 4) Not to be left out, Northern Ireland (statisically seperatre from Ireland proper) has 2 known meteorites, both OC witnessed falls. 5) The United States has over 1519 approved meteorites! This US tally includes : 2 acapulcoites 5 aubrites 22 carbonaceous chondrites 2 diogenites 4 EL chondrites 11 eucrites more OC's than you can shake a magnetic cane at 4 howardites a boatload of irons 2 Martian meteorites (LA001/002 Lafayette) 8 mesosiderites 18 pallasites 1 rumuruti chondrite 2 ureilites 2 winonaites :) . Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA) Member of the Meteoritical Society. Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network. Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/fine_meteorites_4_sale .. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] More Meteorite Geography Trivia
Hi, List, Michael wrote: What are the chances of a meteorite landing on a relatively-small island in the middle of a sea? Well, the answer is that the chances of a meteorite landing anywhere are exactly the same as of it landing anywhere else. The landing of a meteorite is as purely random an event as any natural event can be. There is no causal connection between the path of the meteoroid and the geography of the Earth or indeed, anything about the Earth except that it got in the way of the meteoroid. If you were standing idly about in your front yard and a meteorite whizzed down and landed in front of your feet, you would jump and scream, OMG! What are the odds of that?! But the odds of that meteorite landing on the square meter you were standing on is unaffected by the fact that you were standing there. Likewise, any square meter you stand on, anywhere, is as likely to have a meteorite land on it as any other, whether that square meter of Earth is land or sea, for example. (Since nearly 70% of the Earth is water, 70% of all meteorites land there.) So, when you go out into your front yard tonight to wait for that meteorite to land at your feet, you can stand anywhere in the yard you want to! (Or sit in a yard chair, if you want; that doesn't affect the odds either.) Don't laugh! The meteorite that lands -- Plop! -- at someone's feet in the front yard has actually happened, and in relatively recent times. Check out the NOBLESVILLE (Indiana) fall. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Michael Gilmer michael_w_gil...@yahoo.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:08 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] More Meteorite Geography Trivia Some more meteorite-geography trivia : 1) Jamaica has one known meteorite, Lucky Hill, an iron IIIAB. What are the chances of a meteorite landing on a relatively-small island in the middle of a sea? This meteorite could have easily ended up on the bottom of the Caribbean, but instead it gets to spend it's days in a tropical beach paradise. (I hope it's stored with some dessicant!) 2) Iran has only 2 known meteorites - both of them witnessed falls! Naragh is an H6 hammer stone that penetrated the roof of a school on August 18, 1974. No casualties were reported. The other fall is Veramin, a mesosiderite, which fell around April 18, 1880. Veramin has been kept in Tehran's Golestan Palace since then. 3) Ireland has 6 recorded meteorites - all of them witnessed falls. (The Tanzanians have competition!) All of Ireland's meteorites have been OC's and one remains unclassified - Pettiswood. 4) Not to be left out, Northern Ireland (statisically seperatre from Ireland proper) has 2 known meteorites, both OC witnessed falls. 5) The United States has over 1519 approved meteorites! This US tally includes : 2 acapulcoites 5 aubrites 22 carbonaceous chondrites 2 diogenites 4 EL chondrites 11 eucrites more OC's than you can shake a magnetic cane at 4 howardites a boatload of irons 2 Martian meteorites (LA001/002 Lafayette) 8 mesosiderites 18 pallasites 1 rumuruti chondrite 2 ureilites 2 winonaites :) . Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA) Member of the Meteoritical Society. Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network. Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/fine_meteorites_4_sale .. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] More Meteorite Geography Trivia
I fully agree. Now a pure statistic evaluation tells you that if you are waiting in your front yard having a surface of 1 squere km, for a meteorite of 1 kg to fall, you'll have to wait (on the average) for...10 million years! (if my memory is right, I hesitate between 10 and 100 milloin but the message is the same). A funny related joke we use to tell our visitors in Ensisheim show: If you are affraid a meteorite would fell on you, just don't worry! A bolid of about 125 kg fell right here 516 years ago, so you are statistically speaking, totally safe! I know Sterling will contradict me and I will agree! A typical counter-example is the Weathersfield meteorite that fell in CT on almost the same place in 1971 and in 1982. Both were L6!... Keep smiling, Zelimir A 12:11 13/12/2008 -0600, Sterling K. Webb a écrit : Hi, List, Michael wrote: What are the chances of a meteorite landing on a relatively-small island in the middle of a sea? Well, the answer is that the chances of a meteorite landing anywhere are exactly the same as of it landing anywhere else. The landing of a meteorite is as purely random an event as any natural event can be. There is no causal connection between the path of the meteoroid and the geography of the Earth or indeed, anything about the Earth except that it got in the way of the meteoroid. If you were standing idly about in your front yard and a meteorite whizzed down and landed in front of your feet, you would jump and scream, OMG! What are the odds of that?! But the odds of that meteorite landing on the square meter you were standing on is unaffected by the fact that you were standing there. Likewise, any square meter you stand on, anywhere, is as likely to have a meteorite land on it as any other, whether that square meter of Earth is land or sea, for example. (Since nearly 70% of the Earth is water, 70% of all meteorites land there.) So, when you go out into your front yard tonight to wait for that meteorite to land at your feet, you can stand anywhere in the yard you want to! (Or sit in a yard chair, if you want; that doesn't affect the odds either.) Don't laugh! The meteorite that lands -- Plop! -- at someone's feet in the front yard has actually happened, and in relatively recent times. Check out the NOBLESVILLE (Indiana) fall. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Michael Gilmer michael_w_gil...@yahoo.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:08 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] More Meteorite Geography Trivia Some more meteorite-geography trivia : 1) Jamaica has one known meteorite, Lucky Hill, an iron IIIAB. What are the chances of a meteorite landing on a relatively-small island in the middle of a sea? This meteorite could have easily ended up on the bottom of the Caribbean, but instead it gets to spend it's days in a tropical beach paradise. (I hope it's stored with some dessicant!) 2) Iran has only 2 known meteorites - both of them witnessed falls! Naragh is an H6 hammer stone that penetrated the roof of a school on August 18, 1974. No casualties were reported. The other fall is Veramin, a mesosiderite, which fell around April 18, 1880. Veramin has been kept in Tehran's Golestan Palace since then. 3) Ireland has 6 recorded meteorites - all of them witnessed falls. (The Tanzanians have competition!) All of Ireland's meteorites have been OC's and one remains unclassified - Pettiswood. 4) Not to be left out, Northern Ireland (statisically seperatre from Ireland proper) has 2 known meteorites, both OC witnessed falls. 5) The United States has over 1519 approved meteorites! This US tally includes : 2 acapulcoites 5 aubrites 22 carbonaceous chondrites 2 diogenites 4 EL chondrites 11 eucrites more OC's than you can shake a magnetic cane at 4 howardites a boatload of irons 2 Martian meteorites (LA001/002 Lafayette) 8 mesosiderites 18 pallasites 1 rumuruti chondrite 2 ureilites 2 winonaites :) . Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA) Member of the Meteoritical Society. Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network. Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/fine_meteorites_4_sale .. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Prof. Zelimir Gabelica Université de Haute Alsace ENSCMu, Lab. GSEC, 3, Rue A. Werner, F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France Tel: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 94 Fax: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 15
Re: [meteorite-list] More Meteorite Geography Trivia
Sterling wrote: Well, the answer is that the chances of a meteorite landing anywhere are exactly the same as of it landing anywhere else. The landing of a meteorite is as purely random an event as any natural event can be. There is no causal connection between the path of the meteoroid and the geography of the Earth or indeed, anything about the Earth except that it got in the way of the meteoroid. Hi Sterling, List, I find it overwhelmingly necessary to take exception to your statement (above). It is a well known and established fact that the great majority of meteors and meteorites, given their druthers, aim for Texas. The ones that miss Texas can only be attributed to having poor marksmanship skills or exceedingly bad taste. Someone might point out that Northwest Africa seems to have an abnormally high clustering of meteorites. Well, those were just wimps looking for a soft landing. Didn't need that kind in Texas anyway. 'Nuf said. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all, Jerry Wallace - Sterling K. Webb wrote: Hi, List, Michael wrote: What are the chances of a meteorite landing on a relatively-small island in the middle of a sea? Well, the answer is that the chances of a meteorite landing anywhere are exactly the same as of it landing anywhere else. The landing of a meteorite is as purely random an event as any natural event can be. There is no causal connection between the path of the meteoroid and the geography of the Earth or indeed, anything about the Earth except that it got in the way of the meteoroid. If you were standing idly about in your front yard and a meteorite whizzed down and landed in front of your feet, you would jump and scream, OMG! What are the odds of that?! But the odds of that meteorite landing on the square meter you were standing on is unaffected by the fact that you were standing there. Likewise, any square meter you stand on, anywhere, is as likely to have a meteorite land on it as any other, whether that square meter of Earth is land or sea, for example. (Since nearly 70% of the Earth is water, 70% of all meteorites land there.) So, when you go out into your front yard tonight to wait for that meteorite to land at your feet, you can stand anywhere in the yard you want to! (Or sit in a yard chair, if you want; that doesn't affect the odds either.) Don't laugh! The meteorite that lands -- Plop! -- at someone's feet in the front yard has actually happened, and in relatively recent times. Check out the NOBLESVILLE (Indiana) fall. Sterling K. Webb __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
