[meteorite-list] Meteor shower meteorite dropping events

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:01:20 -0500
Message-ID: <389FB45BCA1546329DB7A6E39EDE877A_at_ATARIENGINE2>

Chris, Eric, List,

Mazapil is a very old argument, indeed.

Take a look at:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2002M%26PS...37..649B
or the same at the author's website:
http://hyperion.cc.uregina.ca/~astro/Mazapil.pdf

and this one:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc1987/pdf/1377.pdf

Personally, the idea that comets drop iron meteorites
is silly. The fact that this is the one and only example, out
of thousands of falls, of the coinciding of a meteorite
fall with a meteor shower suggests to me that when you
flip coins often enough, a coin will land on its edge.


Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Meteorites USA" <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor shower meteorite dropping events


> Thanks for posting this Chris... This sounds like a good topic for an
> article for my magazine. If you're interested in it, and/or would like
> to write for the mag on this topic let me know. Anyone have a working
> theory based on evidence of this associative phenomena? I've heard
> many people suggest that meteor showers don't drop meteorites. Then
> I've heard people associate meteorite falls that happen during meteor
> showers with said shower. And I've also heard that people believe that
> there is ZERO connection and it's purely coincidence.
>
> So which is it? yay or nay, or maybe? or no one really knows...?
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> On 8/11/2010 8:59 PM, Chris Spratt wrote:
>> I know of one meteor shower (November Andromedids) where an iron
>> meteorite fell in Mazapil, Mexico during the shower.
>>
>> Are there any similar events?
>>
>> Chris Spratt
>> Victoria, BC
>> (Via my iPhone)
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