[meteorite-list] Witnessed fall lunars?still no clear answere

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:21:51 +0000
Message-ID: <SNT120-W63B5B9E9BD8A1638E04C79CA720_at_phx.gbl>

It could just be dumb chance.? Most of the lunars found don't appear to have fallen recently.? We might be in a period when, for the couple of hundred years since meteorites started to be recognized for what they are, no lunars arrived where humans were in a position to witness their arrival.

My 2 Bessey Specks (which is about all I can afford of planetaries!)
Best!
Tracy

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> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:49:15 -0700
> From: steve.dunklee at yahoo.com
> To: almitt2 at localnet.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed fall lunars?still no clear answere
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> Hi everyone. You did a good job of thrashing my response without giving an answere to the original question. Why are there no lunar witnessed falls? DR kortev did say there are twice as many Martian impacts,which to me is a lot or many more. Another person questioned if they would have enough velocity to be seen which is a verry good point because some would reach terminal velocity much sooner than an object from mars or the astroid belt. The amount of time recovered lunars take to reach earth has been said to be the same as mars meteorites. I am beginning to believe it may be a matter of recognition. A lunar would reach terminal velocity 20 or more miles up and fall without making a sound. And if it did make a sound the person finding it would do everyones "is it a meteorite" test. Brown or green crust? Doesnt stick to a magnet.vesicles on the crust. Must not be a meteorite. And what size does it take to launch a rock from the moon?small would do it.
> Cheers Steve
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