[meteorite-list] Meteorites that fell into the water

From: Fred Olsen <debfred_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:45 2004
Message-ID: <00bb01c1f3a1$302e27e0$5d02560c_at_fred>

List, I just got back to town after a couple of days so I may have missed
the answer, but the "fossil" meteorites Lake Murray and the other
Scandinavian ones fell in the ocean.
----- Original Message -----
From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_tkc.att.ne.jp>
To: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Cc: Serguei Vassiliev <svassiliev_at_iol.cz>;
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites that fell into the water


> Serguei
> One hit a Japanese ship and was promptly swept off of the ship. Other
> parts probably hit the sea. Dirk Ross Tokyo
>
> Bernd Pauli HD 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
> >
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