[meteorite-list] Spade Versus Estacado

From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:37 2004
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000004100000E9F_at_paulinet.de>

Tom wrote:

> I would guess if the two are only 35 miles apart that they are the
> same meteorite. I think it is time to hunt between the two !!!

IF they are really paired, this would imply that several stones may have fallen.
The Estacado main mass weighs 290 kg, the Spade single mass weighs
8.86 kg. Thus a hypothetical strewn field ellipse might stretch from somewhere
between Hart Camp and Littlefield for the smaller masses to increasingly larger
masses toward Estacado (all of these places north of Lubbock*, TX) with the
center line of the hypothetical strewn field ellipse running from Spade via
Abernathy / Heckville to Estacado.

*Lubbock is an L5 chondrite

Regards,

Bernd

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Received on Fri 29 Aug 2003 10:20:55 AM PDT