[meteorite-list] Friable meteorites

From: Michael Mulgrew <mikestang_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:50:52 -0700
Message-ID: <CAMseTy2acK9f0ShQbtOdNEZvgQbFaMEx7jp2vcWHKPFn2v7gOw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Pete,

If you want to talk friable meteorites, take a look at Tagish Lake.
It is one of my most favorite meteorites, it is the least dense
meteorite known to man. Fascinating!

-Michael in so. Cal.

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:06 PM, <pshugar at messengersfromthecosmos.com> wrote:
>
> In a conversation with someone today, it was mentioned that
> Kilabo was extremely friable. Another really friable
> meteorite was Caracas, Peru.
> My question is how do they survive to the ground, to be found
> not as a dust, but in large pieces? How did they make a crator?
> Have the scientists figured out how the Caracas meteorite made
> such a large crator?
> Many questions and so little time to figure out what happened.
> Pete
>
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Received on Mon 24 Oct 2011 12:50:52 AM PDT