[meteorite-list] Asian falls

From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:40:27 -0500
Message-ID: <4D1A9F9B.2020900_at_usgs.gov>

List,

I've been maintaining the Wikipedia page on meteorites fall statistics
for a number of years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite_fall_statistics

On this page is a table showing the number of falls by continent,
divided into 20-year intervals. We are now halfway through the
2001-2020 interval, and fall rates in most places are about what you'd
expect based on the previous 40 years. However, Asian falls are way
down... there have been 13 published in MetBull for the last 10 years,
around half the number you might expect. Anybody care to speculate why
this is?

Jeff
Received on Tue 28 Dec 2010 09:40:27 PM PST