[meteorite-list] when will the US see another meteorite fall and recovery?
From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:27 2004 Message-ID: <3E4EFFA6.242E140D_at_tkc.att.ne.jp> --------------2158C8F5E995CACFF5725B0E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have a new fall in Japan; but I do not have the details yet. Dirk Ross...Tokyo John Divelbiss wrote: > Hello all, As David Hardy suggested...things sure are slow on list. > I'll try to add something. I'm reading Nininger's book, Find A Falling > Star. I'm only a third of the way through...and I'm hooked! I keep > looking out back to see if a fireball might be passing by... or maybe > I'll find a nice size crater in the backyard when I take the dog out > in the morning. Al Mitterling told me this book would stir my desires > to go out and find a rock from space. Everyone interested in > meteorites should read it. What a story Nininger had to tell. Let's > hope Steve Schoner gets well enough to share his observations of the > man he met with years ago. In the book he seems to be running from one > fall or find to another for about 20 years (so far, from my > reading)...mostly in the US, Canada or Mexico. Falls seemed to happen > more frequently during those days, especially in the Midwest. My > question is...are we in a meteorite drought (falls) here in the US and > elsewhere, or is their no one out there doing what Nininger did when a > fireball is witnessed? Obviously it takes lots of people interested in > finding them to eventually bring them to someone like a Nininger...who > advertised in papers, spoke to groups and individuals, offering money, > etc. I know we've had sightings...but I think the last recorded > meteorite falls in the US were Portales Valley and Monahans in 1998. > Can anyone come up with a later one? I think we are in a drought. > Let's hope this is the year we see another or two...and of course, it > happens in the backyard of someone on the list. When???? John --------------2158C8F5E995CACFF5725B0E Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> We have a new fall in Japan; but I do not have the details yet. Dirk Ross...Tokyo <P>John Divelbiss wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <STYLE></STYLE> <FONT SIZE=-1>Hello all,</FONT> <FONT SIZE=-1>As David Hardy suggested...things sure are slow on list. I'll try to add something.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=-1>I'm reading Nininger's book, Find A Falling Star. I'm only a third of the way through...and I'm hooked! I keep looking out back to see if a fireball might be passing by... or maybe I'll find a nice size crater in the backyard when I take the dog out in the morning. Al Mitterling told me this book would stir my desires to go out and find a rock from space. Everyone interested in meteorites should read it. What a story Nininger had to tell. Let's hope Steve Schoner gets well enough to share his observations of the man he met with years ago.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=-1>In the book he seems to be running from one fall or find to another for about 20 years (so far, from my reading)...mostly in the US, Canada or Mexico. Falls seemed to happen more frequently during those days, especially in the Midwest. My question is...are we in a meteorite drought (falls) here in the US and elsewhere, or is their no one out there doing what Nininger did when a fireball is witnessed? Obviously it takes lots of people interested in finding them to eventually bring them to someone like a Nininger...who advertised in papers, spoke to groups and individuals, offering money, etc.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=-1>I know we've had sightings...but I think the last recorded meteorite falls in the US were Portales Valley and Monahans in 1998. Can anyone come up with a later one? I think we are in a drought. Let's hope this is the year we see another or two...and of course, it happens in the backyard of someone on the list.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=-1>When????</FONT> <FONT SIZE=-1>John</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML> --------------2158C8F5E995CACFF5725B0E-- Received on Sat 15 Feb 2003 10:04:06 PM PST |
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