[meteorite-list] Guess the WI fall type - Based on other recent falls

From: Greg Stanley <stanleygregr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:58:06 -0700
Message-ID: <SNT117-W256D5A1D56FB1AE3FA6051D2F30_at_phx.gbl>

All:

How many falls have been brecciated?? Seems some of the latest falls have been.

Greg S.

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> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:52:44 -0400
> From: meteoritemike at gmail.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Guess the WI fall type - Based on other recent falls
>
> Hi Listees,
>
> With no official word yet on the petrologic type of the new Wisconsin
> meteorite, does anyone want to guess what the final type will be?
>
> We know it is a brecciated ordinary chondrite, but is it an L6, L5, or ...?
>
> Listed below are the types of the known falls since the year 2000.
> The type is listed and then how many of that type have fallen. If
> only the type is listed, then that type has fallen only once since
> 2000.
>
> You will notice that there is an overwhelming majority of certain OC
> types and only one iron.
>
> CM2
> CO3.6
> CV3
> C2-ung
> EL6
> L5 : three
> L5/6
> L5-6
> L6 : eight
> LL5
> LL6 : five
> H/L4
> H3.8
> H3-5 : two
> H4 : two
> H4-5 : two
> H4/5 : two
> H5 : twelve
> H5/6
> H6
> Ureilite
> Eucrite : five
> Iron IIE-an
>
> The full chart with individual fall dates, types, and locations can be
> found here - http://www.galactic-stone.com/pages/falls
>
> Best regards and happy huntings (and collectings!),
>
> MikeG
>
>
>
>
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