[meteorite-list] Meteorites that fell into the water
From: David Hardy <mdavidhardy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:45 2004 Message-ID: <20020504124451.16510.qmail_at_web13802.mail.yahoo.com> Would Tagish Lake qualify? It landed on a frozen lake and most of it later sank when the ice melted. David H. --- Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote: > Hello Serguei and List, > > The most famous meteorite that fell into a pond or a stock tank is, of > course, Pena Blanca Spring. See detailed description in Joel Schiff's > METEORITE magazine: Meteorite! (May 2000, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 36-38). > > Some of the Siena stones have also been reported to have fallen into > a pond: "Two astonished English ladies saw stones fall into a pond > and splash out water that appeared to boil." The government had the > pond drained and actually recovered some Siena stones [MARVIN > U.B. (1996) E.F. Chladni (1756-1827) and the origins of modern > meteorite research (Meteoritics 31-5, 1996, 558-561)]. > > Several Chinga specimens were found in the Chinga River basin. And > there is the Djati-Pengilon H6 chondrite which fell into the Alastoeva > river. > > Another celebrity is the Grosnaja CV3 chondrite. A shower of stones > fell, after detonations, but only 1 of about 3.5 kg was recovered as > the rest fell into the river Terek. > > Monte Milone, L5, brecciated: After detonations, many stones fell > (some in the river Potenza) 8 miles from Macerata, Italy. > > Seymchan, a IIE iron of 272.3 kg was found in the bed of a stream > flowing into the river Hekandue, a tributary of the Jasachnaja. > > Shirahagi, IVA, mass of 22.7 kg was found in the bed of the Kamiichi- > kawa river. Saotome, which is structurally similar, was found in the > same river 2 years later. > > > Best wishes, > > Bernd > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Received on Sat 04 May 2002 08:44:51 AM PDT |
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