[meteorite-list] 2008 - A busy year for Falls (Nine) - Any other busy years?

From: Gabriel Gonçalves <gabisfunny_2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:16:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello,

Nice page Mike.

I can say that you could include one more meteorite in this list.

Here in Brazil we had a fall after a fireball of June 19. The fisrt fragment was found in the city of Varre-Sai (Rio de Janeiro state), and other fragments were found since then (I think that the total now is around 5), including a fragment found in the neighboor city in the Espirito Santo state.

The only site in english I found is this one:

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2010/06/brazil-meteor-fireball-produces.html

And this is a possible video of the event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylTTBM2rBq8

Regards,

Gabriel

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:34:43 -0400
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Hi List,

I was adding Zunhua to my list of 21st Century Falls and I noticed
that 2008 was a very busy year for falls - nine falls, or almost one
per month.

http://www.galactic-stone.com/pages/falls

2002 saw eight falls, but so far 2008 is the busiest year of the 21st century.

Oddly, there were no recorded falls in 2005. I find that hard to
believe. Surely one meteorite must have fallen somewhere during 2005.
Does anyone know of any good 2005 candidates that were never
recovered?

Best regards,

MikeG


      
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