[meteorite-list] What's the highest meteorite ever found?

From: Michael Casper <Michael_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:43:35 2004
Message-ID: <001f01c11612$6269ae40$0200a8c0_at_Domain>

Tibet, China

The above is disgusting! Do you know what the Chinese have done and what
they are doing to Tibet?!!
How can you recognize Tibet, China?!!! I have a real problem with this Jeff.

  Michael Casper


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_usgs.gov>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What's the highest meteorite ever found?


> I just got to this question, which I knew I could answer...
>
> I have the MetBase data for meteorite locations, and I intersected these
> with the GTOPO30 world elevation database using ArcInfo (it was fairly
> easy). The result, at the resolution of these two files (which may be a
> factor for steep, mountainous regions)...
>
> The highest finds,
> Aguas Caliente, Argentina, 4643 m
> Ngiangri, Tibet, China, 4630 m
> Barranca Blanca, Chile, 4543 m
>
> The highest recovered fall, and number 4 overall,
> Tulung Dzong, Tibet, China, 4249 m
>
> The lowest finds on land,
> Imperial, California, USA, -20 m
> Sarepta, Russia, -19 m
> (none others below sea level)
>
> Others were recovered underwater (somebody else can determine this).
>
> What a fun question!
>
> jeff
>
>
> At 08:53 PM 7/20/2001, Martin Horejsi wrote:
> >Hi Randy, Kevin and all,
> >
> >I worked on this problem a while, as possibly one of the usually
infallible
> >sources. I think it would be nice if someone could hack the British
> >Catalogue's software to allow a mass dump of meteorite names and lat/long
> >coordinates. This information could then be crossed with a GIS
information
> >database of elevations. It might yield more information answering
questions
> >we have not yet asked.
> >
> >Good luck with your find Kevin. May you get an "est".
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Martin
> >
> >
> >
> >on 7/20/01 2:34 PM, Randy Mils at acculabs_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > The real question is............
> > >
> > > Does anyone really care?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> From: MARSROX_at_aol.com
> > >> To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> > >> Subject: [meteorite-list] What's the highest meteorite ever found?
> > >> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:10:09 EDT
> > >>
> > >> Here's a question that the usually infallable sources have not been
> > able to
> > >> pull out of their databases.
> > >>
> > >> What's the highest altitude a meteorite has ever been found at? I am
not
> > >> asking about peripheral subjects like micrometeorites caught in gel
from
> > >> high-altitude balloons. I'm only concerned with meteorites, falls or
> > finds,
> > >> picked up from the ground.
> > >>
> > >> Could it be Tulung Dzong "said to have made a crater 10 feet in
diameter;
> > >> two
> > >> days march NNW of Lhasa"?
> > >>
> > >> Could it be Tambo Quemado from Leoncio Prado, Ayacucho, Peru?
> > >>
> > >> Something from the Atacama? Antarctica? Alabama Heights?
> > >>
> > >> Do we not know?????????
> > >>
> > >> Kevin Kichinka
> > >>
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