[meteorite-list] Colorado fireball/meteor 6/6/10

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 06:58:23 -0600
Message-ID: <07CF30974BD444E490C8AF15666C2A19_at_bellatrix>

Dropping meteorites is probably more about entry speed and final height than
anything else. I think there is good reason to believe that the great
majority of meteorites are produced by quite small fireballs. We tend to get
focused on these huge fireball events because they are so widely seen and
well documented, but they are probably the exception. Of course, they are
the ones likely to result in falls with really large strewn fields, but that
isn't typical for most meteorites.

Chris

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Cloudbait Observatory
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From: "Melanie Matthews" <miss_meteorite at yahoo.ca>
To: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>; "hxmendoza"
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Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Colorado fireball/meteor 6/6/10


> Looks too small to have produced/dropped meteorites?
Received on Mon 07 Jun 2010 08:58:23 AM PDT