[meteorite-list] Meteor shower meteorite dropping events

From: Jason Utas <meteoritekid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:20:37 -0700
Message-ID: <AANLkTikiCX+ZiTQinudCpWHt0SbV5yoX8nREeFPftOOt_at_mail.gmail.com>

Haha, but Sterling -- I'd like to refer you to one of the posts (one
of yours!) I linked to in my reply:

http://www.mail-archive.com/meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com/msg84604.html

The Wisconsin fall was another coincidence -- and it's not the only
one. If you go through the fall calendars, more than a few meteorites
have fallen on dates that coincide with known meteor showers. This is
especially true if you take into account the fact that "showers" often
produce meteors for weeks leading up to, and away from their peaks.

Mazapil was deemed particularly interesting because it fell during a
very strong outburst of activity from the shower with which it is
associated.

Granted, I'm in no way advocating the cometary origin of any
meteorites. It's simply the result of the frequency of meteor showers
and the frequency with which unrelated meteoric material reaches the
earth...but it has happened more than once.

Regards,
Jason


On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Sterling K. Webb
<sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message ----- 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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