[meteorite-list] meteorite ground movment

From: Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:54 2004
Message-ID: <001301c37897$8acb9b20$50cd43d8_at_malcolm>

Hello List, How much can a meteorite move? Kingman's old airfield used
the outskirts of kingman as a shooting range during WW2 and I asked the
airfield museum how many 50 caliber bullets they shot on this range. The
airfield museum curator did not remember the exact number, but he remembered
it was close to a billion!
    I decided to take my detector out to a large wash today to look for
gold. Gold in washes tends to concentrate in certain areas. Every time I
checked these areas, I found hundreds if not thousands of these 50 caliber
slugs. I followed the trail back up to the desert floors and could see how
they were gathering together from all directions to end up in the wash. It
was clearly run off from our big monsoon storms that were moving these
slugs. This is exactly how the gold gets into the washes but a little easier
to see with almost a billion of these 41g slugs.
  Now the question has to be asked, are meteorites moving the same way? Are
they ending up in some lake or river somewhere?
Thanks, Tom
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Received on Thu 11 Sep 2003 03:03:50 PM PDT