[meteorite-list] Some interesting meteorite falls of the last two centuries
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:10:27 -0500 Message-ID: <A2938F02BAC64D4E9E85B6329EF711E9_at_ET> An interesting recap: http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/meteorites.html Some interesting meteorite falls of the last two centuries DATE LOCATION REMARKS REFERENCES 1807 12 14 Weston, CT, U.S.A. meteor visible half a minute, [21] loud sounds heard, many stones found scattered over 6-10 miles, weighing as much as 200 lbs. total (largest meteorite weighed 35 lbs) 1825 01 16 Oriang, Malwate, man killed, woman injured in [14, 17] India meteorite fall 1827 02 16 Mhow, India man wounded "severely in the [12, 17] arm" when hit by meteorite 1836 11 11 Macau, Brazil cattle killed when hit by [12, 17] shower of meteorites 1847 07 14 Hauptmannsdorf, 37-pound Braunau iron meteorite [12, 17] Braunau, Bohemia smashed into a room, covering three children with ceiling debris but not hurting them 1860 05 01 New Concord, OH, horse struck and killed by [12, 17] USA meteorite 1868 01 30 Pultusk, Poland meteorite shower of more than [12] 100,000 fragments 1882 02 03 Mocs, Romania meteorite shower of thousands [12] of fragments 1890 05 02 Forest City, IA, USA meteorite shower of some 2000 [12] fragments; one fragment fell into a pile of hay (no fire) 1907 09 05 Hsin-p-ai Wei, meteorite caused a house to [1] Weng-li, China collapse, killing a family; evidently no evidence 1908 06 30 Tunguska, Siberia apparent airblast (no recovered [15] meteorites) of an object entering earth's atmosphere; leveled hundreds of square miles of forest, killing two men and hundreds of reindeer 1911 06 28 Nakhla, Egypt dog struck and killed by [12, 17] meteorite (part of meteorite shower) 1912 07 19 Holbrook, AZ, USA meteorite shower of more than [12, 13] 14000 fragments; meteorite fell a few meters from a person; largest fragment 9 pounds 1915 04 25 Ta-yang, east of meteorite tore off a woman's [1] Mai-po, China arm; several meteorites, ranging from about 2 to about 3.5 kg 1924 07 06 Johnstown, CO, USA meteorites fell within a few feet [13] of two men; 50-pound stone went 5 feet into wet soil 1927 04 28 Aba-mura, Inashiki- young girl suffered two head [16] gun, Ibaragi-ken, injuries when struck by a Japan stony meteorite 1932 08 10 Archie, MO, USA meteorite fell less than 1 m [12, 13] from person 1938 06 16 Pantar, Philippines several buildings hit by meteorites [12] 1938 06 24 Chicora, PA, USA cow's hide injured, presumably by [17] a fragment belonging to the meteorite shower in that area on that day 1938 09 29 Benld, IL, USA building and car hit by stony [12, 13] meteorites; the car was hit by a 4-pound fragment after it crashed through the roof of a garage, then through roof, seat, and floorboards of car 1947 02 12 Sikhote-Alin, south- largest meteorite shower on [2] eastern Siberia record; estimated 100 tons of total debris fell, the largest weighing 1745 kg; some 9000 fragments weighing about 28 tons recovered; largest crater 28 m wide 1950 09 20 Murray, KY, USA five buildings hit by meteorites [12] 1950 12 10 St. Louis, MO, USA car hit by meteorite [12] 1954 11 30 Sylacauga, AL, USA woman in home hit by meteorite [3, 12] after breaking through roof 1965 12 24 Barwell, England two buildings and a car hit by [12] by meteorites 1971 04 08 Wethersfield, CT, 12-ounce meteorite entered house [4, 12] USA through roof, lodged in living- room ceiling; ordinary chondrite; less than two miles away, another house was hit 11.5 yr later 1976 03 08 Jilin City, Jilin, largest stony-meteorite shower [1, 12] China in recent times; more than 100 fragments, the largest being 1770 kg in weight and making an impact crater 6 m deep; H5 chondrite 1977 01 31 Louisville, KY, USA three buildings and a car hit by [12] meteorites 1982 11 08 Wethersfield, CT, meteorite entered house through [4, 12] USA roof; second house hit in same town in 11.5 years; L6 chondrite 1984 09 30 Binningup, WA, meteorite fell 4-5 m from two [12] Australia sunbathers on soft beach sand 1984 12 10 Claxton, GA, USA mailbox hit by meteorite [12] 1986 07 29 Kokubunji, Japan several buildings hit by meteorites [12] 1991 08 31 Noblesville, IN, USA meteorite fell 3.5 m from two [5] children outside; ordinary stony chondrite 1992 08 14 Mbale, Uganda meteorite shower; boy hit on [6] head by 3.6-g fragment after it hit tree first 1992 10 09 Peekskill, NY, USA car hit by meteorite, which [7] passed through steel trunk and impacted ground underneath; fireball widely visible and imaged along east coast 1992 12 10 Mihonoseki, Honshu, 6.5-kg L6 ordinary chondrite [10] Japan meteorite crashed through house to ground 1994 06 14 St-Robert, QC, meteorite shower caused sonic [8] Canada boom in Montreal; scattered strewnfield in rural area; more than 25 kg recovered; H5 chondrite 1994 06 21 near Getafe, Spain 12-cm-wide, 1.4-kg meteorite [11] broke windshield and bent steering wheel of moving car, breaking finger of driver; more than 50 kg of meteorites found within 200 m of accident 2003 03 26 Chicago, IL, USA meteorite shower; buildings [9] hit in Park Forest, IL; ordinary chondrites 2003 09 27 Mayurbhanj, bright fireball(s) lit up sky just [18] Orissa, India after sunset; widely observed meteorite shower yielding numerous highly magnetic meteorites 2004 06 12 Ellerslie, suburban 1.3-kg (2.8-lb) 7-cm x 13-cm [19] Auckland, N.Z. meteorite broke through roof of house and bounced off sofa 2007 01 02 Freehold Township, 13-ounce iron meteorite broke [20] N.J., U.S.A. through residential roof and landed in a bathroom 2007 09 15 Carancas, Peru 13.5-m-diameter crater created by [22] (near Lake Titicaca mid-day visible fireball at alt. 3824 m) meteorite, numerous ordinary chondrites H4-5 recovered; made international news when local people complained of illness -- not yet definitively explained 2008 10 06 Nubian desert, 47 meteorites weighing 3.95 kg [23] northern Sudan were found in Dec. 2008 via a (Almahata Sitta) systematic search along the suspected debris path for the small minor planet 2008 TC3, discovered 20 hours prior to impact by R. A. Kowalski with the 1.5-m telescope at Mt. Lemmon in Arizona, when it was about 370000 miles from the earth; a bright fireball was seen by airline pilots and orbiting satellites when the object entered the earth's atmosphere; the largest recovered meteorite weights 1.5 g (classified as a polymict ureilite, an achondrite) ---------- REFERENCES ---------- [1] Yau et al. (1994), Meteoritics 29, 864 [2] Gallant (1997), Sky Telesc. 93(2), 50; http://www.k4zrd.com/Sikhote-Alin.htm; http://www.alaska.net/~meteor/SAinfo.htm [3] Swindel and Jones (1954), Meteoritics 1, 125; http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/8p73.htm [4] di Cicco (1983), Sky Telesc. 65, 118; [5] Sky Telesc. 83, 372 (April 1992) [6] http://www.xs4all.nl/~dmsweb/meteorites/mbale/mbale.html; Jenniskens et al. (1994), Meteoritics 29, 246; Sky & Telescope, June 1993, p. 96 [7] Brown et al. (1994), Nature 367, 624; di Cicco (1993), Sky Telesc. 85(2), 26 [8] Brown et al. (1996), Meteoritics & Planetary Sci. 31, 502; Hildebrand et al. (1997), J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada 91, 261; http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/meteor_e.html [9] http://www.fmnh.org/research_collections/geology/meteor.htm [10] Sky Telesc. 86(2), 13 (Aug. 1993) [11] Sky Telesc. 88(6), 12 (Dec. 1994) [12] Spratt and Stephens (1992), Mercury, Mar./Apr. 1992, p. 50; Spratt (1991), JRASC 85, 263 [13] Nininger (1952), Out of the Sky: An Introduction to Meteorites, Univ. of Denver Press [14] Gritzner (1997), WGN 25, 222 [15] Sekanina (1983), A.J. 88, 1382; Melosh (1993), Nature 361, 14; Lyne and Tauber (1995) Nature 375, 638; Sekanina (1998), Planet. Space Sci. 46, 191; Bronshten (2000), Planet. Space Sci. 48, 855; Hou et al. (2000), Planet. Space Sci. 48, 1447 [16] Yamamoto and Murayama (1951), Pop. Astron. 59, 431, 432 [17] LaPaz (1951), Pop. Astron. 59, 433 [18] http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc092903.html; http://www.gsi.gov.in/mete_ors.htm [19] Aug. 2004 issue of Meteorite, article by Brenda Archer; Summer 2005 issue of Inside Smithsonian Research (No. 9, p. 16), article by John Barrat; also numerous WWW news articles, such as http://www.geo-earth.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2490.html (do a Google search with +"Brenda Archer" +meteorite). [20] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_us/fallen_object; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16491697/; http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8407/1066/; http://www.meteorite.com/news/index.htm [21] Elements of Astronomy, Descriptive and Physics, by Hervey Wilbur (1839, New York: Scofield and Voorhies; and Boston: Whipple and Damrell), pp. 106-107. [22] J. Borovicka and P. Spurny (2008), Astron. Astrophys. 485, L1; G. Tancredi et al. (2009), Meteoritics & Planetary Sci. 44, 1967. With standard caution, see also the Wikipedia article on this event. [23] P. Jenniskens et al. (2009), Nature 458, 485-488 (26 March). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catalogue of meteorites available on the WWW: http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/earth/metcat/ (which seems to not have been updated in the last couple of years) See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite_falls See also "ARN's History of Meteorites" alphabetical list at http://www.arn-meteorites.com/ (which has more recent falls included) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent comet magnitude estimates --------------------------------------- Phil Whitmer Received on Wed 23 Nov 2011 12:10:27 AM PST |
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