[meteorite-list] Parry Sound, Ontario meteor 5MAR08 any updates on meteorite recovery?

From: Michael Bross <element33_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:54:20 +0100
Message-ID: <050d01c9a11a$bfc59b30$a11c215a_at_Inspiron8200>

Re-Hello Graham

Being new to the list, I am a bit "overwhelmed"... sorry !
But your name rang a bell...

So thank you for your valuable answer to this question !

Btw, does anybody else have anything to say/add to it ?

Michael B


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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Parry Sound, Ontario meteor 5MAR08 any updates
on meteorite recovery?


> Hi Michael,
>
> I have a small meteorite fragment from a fall in 2003 that was found
> within yards of a beach just weeks after. It had already deteriorated very
> badly because of the salty wet atmosphere. Pieces from further inland
> showed hardly any weathering...so I suspect that any meteorite containing
> nickel/iron (and most do) would not last long in salt water unless it was
> very large, and then it would also be less likely to be washed up. I think
> micro meteorite samples have however been recovered from sea
> sediments....but they are not likely to have iron in I suspect.
>
> The regular meteor showers such as the Leonids have never had any
> confirmed/associated meteorites attached to them as far as I know as they
> are from dust trails we pass through (too small to survive). Many people
> have tried to look at the frequency of these showers and link them with
> meteorites with no definite success.
>
> Hope that helps...I do not know of any meteorite that has been recorded
> being washed up on the beach...anybody else on the list know?
>
> Graham Ensor, UK
>
>
> ---- Michael Bross <element33 at peconic.net> wrote:
>> > While I have heard nothing further, the linked maps suggest whatever
>> > survived may have splashed into Georgian Bay.
>> > Mark
>>
>> Hello List
>>
>> This makes me rebound on questions I had prepared for the list
>>
>> - do you know of any occurrence of a meteorite found on a beach, coming
>> from
>> the ocean ?
>> - if not, why ? Are they not looked for ? Or are they just not
>> "expectable"
>> ?
>>
>> I lived many years on Long Island (NY) and remember especially the mid
>> 90s
>> with amazing tides:
>> El Nino + Equinox tides bringing ashore from the near coastal depths,
>> shells, beautiful weathered
>> glass pieces, stones, that we usually didn't see.
>> We found a 200 years old small snail like shell at Nino time. Just lying
>> on
>> the beach.
>> Not counting old amazing Horseshoe crab shells...
>>
>> There was also the magnificent and powerful Leonid shower from 1997 (or
>> 1996?)
>> ... some meteorites must have gone to the ocean, no ?
>>
>> I am just very curious about this.
>> Off course the found meteorites would certainly be weathered, rounded
>> etc...
>> by their
>> stay in the salty and rough ocean... but knowing that the undersea
>> plateau
>> is wide and
>> long and that tides can bring up elements from this plateau floors...
>> well,
>> there might be
>> some meteorites in it...
>> Or am I totally nut to think that way ?
>>
>> And this would count for most of all coastal areas in the world.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Michael Bross
>>
>>
>>
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Received on Mon 09 Mar 2009 08:54:20 PM PDT