[meteorite-list] Discover magazine article

From: Matt <Matt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:12 2004
Message-ID: <004501c09ddf$95627760$c3dc7fa5_at_state.co.us>

I thought Nininger figured 1 meteorite for every square mile!
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Discover magazine article


> Hi All,
>
> I'm assuming I'm not the only one that read the article about
> Philip Bland in the March issue of Discover magazine. One
> sentence on page 47 covers a subject near and dear to my
> heart:
>
> "His results provided the first hard evidence that meteorites
> were falling at a constant rate -- roughly 100 meteorites
> weighing more than 10 grams per 40 million square miles per
> year -- over the last 50,000 years."
>
> Could this be a typo? This corresponds to a global fall rate
> of only ~500 meteorites per year! The actual rate has to be
> at least 300 times greater than this. --Rob
>
>
>
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