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Re: Kitchener Re-post

Hi gang.

When I first heard of the fall in Kitchener I almost jumped!  I live in
Milton, about 20 minutes away. My mind went crazzy about buying
a detector and going out there for a week to search.  But then I
realized about the search area, strewn fields can be big and I could'nt
see myself jumping fences and searching on private backyards. Plus
all the man made metal things in every urban town/city.  I would have
been so exhausted that I would of had to stop in at Lulu's, one of
Canada's longest bars, for a drink and maybe a band like April Wine,
they play there a lot. Anyway the cash for the detector ended up in a
meteorite dealers' pocket..... no I don't golf!

Roman Jirasek
Milton, Ontario




----- Original Message -----
From: dean bessey <deantemp@hotmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:26 PM
Subject: 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
> 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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