[meteorite-list] living near a strewfield

From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Oct 25 12:07:37 2006
Message-ID: <102420060511.16331.453DA07300067C7B00003FCB21602807410299019BA1089F0A9C0106_at_att.net>

Hi EMan and list,

So a strewnfield does not exist until proven, regardless of the fact that little
or no effort has been made in the investigation of a given fall/find? I can see
that. Still, I'd like to believe they're there just as any cold find sets a
hunter in motion.

Bill


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Mr EMan <mstreman53_at_yahoo.com>
> Me thinks we are stretching the definition and/or
> conventional use of the term "strewn field". A single
> stone-2-3 stones do not a strewn field make unless
> there is compelling evidence that there was a wide
> spread peppering of stones.
>
> We are talking meteorite showers here. Park Forest,
> Allende, Odessa, Canyon Diablo, Holbrook, Johnstown,
> Bilingua, Gold Basin, Tagish Lake, etc.. Have Strewn
> fields based on direct recovery.(forgive any
> mispellings cheap spell check)
>
> Peekskill, theoretically has a strewn field with 3 or
> more Peaks owing to sequential fragmentation--even
> though only one stone was recovered: over 75 fragments
> were seen to fall away from the swarm...
>
> New Orleans, Syllicaga, Westfield, etc...nada
>
> The whole issue of strewn field was based on a
> mathematical distribution ellipse that early
> researchers used to forecast an area to concentrate
> searching. To draw this elipse one needs technically 4
> or more stones plotted less than. The ellipse is
> refined as more stones are recovered and plotted. a
> well defined ellipse(30+) typically means 90 95-98% of
> the time at least 95% of the distribution will fall
> within the ellipse.
>
> Elton
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Received on Tue 24 Oct 2006 01:11:16 AM PDT