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Re: Kitchener Re-post

Oh. Thats the canadian one. The golfcourse one. Thanks. I saw the metorite 
(Or at least a replica of it) at the canadian national meteorite museum in 
Ottawa. Scientists liked studying it because it was available to them so 
soon after the fall. It got a bit of press here in Canada. I dont think that 
there is much of a strewnfield with this one though unless there is a 
strewnfild a distance away and this was a stray piece. Sorry Mike, we have 
to find a strewnfild somewhere else to search. Maybe book that trip to 
Antarctica. The place sounds warm to us Canadians. And the beaches are the 
same to.
Cheers
DEAN BESSEY
>
> > Can somebody give me some info on exactly where that new Canadian
> > meteorite is located (Such as directions to the strewnfield which
> > seems to be a two hour drive from where I live). Any other info
> > would be highly appriciated - Thanks DEAN BESSEY
>
>
>Hi Dean and List,
>
>Sky & Telescope, February 1999, p. 24: A narrow Meteorite Miss
>
>Scientists are preparing to analyze a meteorite that fell at the feet of
>a Canadian golfer last summer. According to the Kitchener-Waterloo
>Record, Orville Delong was nearly hit by the spacefaring stone on July
>12th last year while golfing in Kitchener, Ontario. The meteorite is
>chondritic, implying an origin in the asteroid belt, says University of
>Toronto geochemist John C. Rucklidge; isotopic analyses performed
>shortly after its recovery suggest that it traveled in interplanetary
>space for a minimum of several hundred thousand years. "I’m deluged by
>calls from people who have meteorites that turn out to be anything but,"
>Rucklidge continues, but Delong's specimen, with its black, shiny
>surface and fine hairline cracks, is "unlike anything else you would
>ever find." Canadian researchers will slice into the space rock once a
>replica is made.
>
>Sky & Telescope, June 1999, p. 14:
>
>Fore! I was fascinated by your news note in the February issue about a
>meteorite that narrowly missed a Canadian golfer. Where better to look
>for fresh meteorites than on a golf course? Is there any large area of
>the Earth's surface that is better looked after or more regularly
>searched for small falling objects?
>In 1991 I wrote a paper on the meteorite flux to Earth (Space Science
>Reviews, Vol. 61, page 275; 1992) indicating that about 60,000
>meteorites larger than the "golf-course meteorite" hit Earth each year.
>The fairways on a typical golf course have a total area about 1.8 x
>10^-10 that of Earth. So each 18-hole golf course has about a 1 in
>100,000 chance of being hit by a meteorite every year. Multiply this by
>the number of golf courses on Earth, and you realize it's worth
>encouraging golfers to keep their eyes open!
>David W. Hughes, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of
>Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, England (d.hughes@Sheffield.ac.uk).
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Bernd

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