[meteorite-list] More Meteorite Geography Trivia

From: Carl 's <carloselguapo1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:50:31 -0800
Message-ID: <BAY121-W53AC2C7DBF3880C90427DE9BF60_at_phx.gbl>

Sterling and others,

Wouldn't a large meteoritoid that created a large strewnfield change the statistic versus a single stone landing? I flunked statistics in high school. Problems like this used to make my head hurt.

Carl (Dense as a brick)


Sterling wrote:

>Well, the answer is that the chances of a meteorite landing
>anywhere are exactly the same as of it landing anywhere else.
>The "landing" of a meteorite is as purely random an event as
>any natural event can be. There is no causal connection
>between the path of the meteoroid and the geography of
>the Earth or indeed, anything about the Earth except that
>it got in the way of the meteoroid.




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