[meteorite-list] Witnessed fall lunars?

From: Rob Holcomb <rob.holcomb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:48:16 -0700
Message-ID: <D22BF8D06D34462492CA04B2CA912690_at_ATTHEFARM>

That's amazing for only $1.7 million!
Makes my volcanic breccia from the North Cascades look real good.
Rob H.

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From: "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 10:35 PM
To: "Met. Michael Gilmer" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed fall lunars?

> This might be one.....
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/North-American-Lunar-Meteorite-/120618283540?pt=LH_Defau
> ltDomain_0&hash=item1c1568f214
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 9/6/10 2:05 PM, "Met. Michael Gilmer" <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Is there a theory for why there have been no witnessed falls of lunar
>> meteorites? It seems odd to me that we have 4 Martian witnessed falls
>> (Shergotty, Chassigny, Zagami, Nakhla, and almost Lafayette) and no
>> lunars.
>>
>> I also find it odd that no lunaites have been recovered from the
>> Americas or Europe.
>>
>> It would seem that we are long overdue for two things to happen - for
>> a lunaite to be recovered in the Americas/Europe and for a lunar
>> witnessed fall. I wonder which will happen first?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> MikeG
>
>
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