[meteorite-list] The Year in Falls 2013

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <*meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:19:17 -0500 Message-ID: <CAKBPJW8O+jXjwBMSfFGTAyBEjM6vP9z4aUEpu7F_Fop7FDM0Aw_at_mail.gmail.com> · meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com

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On 12/19/13, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
> Is the china fall the garbage dump fall? That wasn't real.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Dec 19, 2013, at 5:15 PM, "Galactic Stone & Ironworks"
>> <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Seasons Greetings fellow Fall Watchers,
>>
>> The year 2013 was a good one for witnessed falls.
>>
>> We started out with our first fall in mid-January - the "Planeta Rica"
>> fall of January 15th in Colombia.  It is assumed to be an ordinary
>> chondrite, judging from the reports.  Do not expect to see this one on
>> the market or in the Bulletin any time soon.
>>
>> Planeta Rica was scarcely noticed when the world was rocked by the
>> Chelyabinsk event.
>>
>> To call Chelyabinsk an "event" is an understatement of cosmic
>> proportions.  On February 15th, the world received a wake-up call that
>> illustrated how woefully unprepared we are for large-scale meteorite
>> impacts.  Everyone reading this knows what happened and it put the
>> world of meteorites on every front page paper and television screen in
>> the world.  Everybody was suddenly aware of meteorites and the
>> collector rush was on.
>>
>> Chelyabinsk overshadowed many events this year, including the Wolcott
>> Connecticut fall of April 19th.  Less than a week later, Germany was
>> gifted a rock from space in the form of the Braunschweig L6 meteorite
>> fall on April 23rd.  Braunschweig and Chelyabinsk are the only
>> officially-approved falls of 2013 as of this writing.
>>
>> On May 9th, there was the Oshika fall in Namibia and about a month
>> later on June 15th, we saw the Yuncheng-Shanxi fall in China.  Both
>> falls are assumed to be ordinary chondrites and garnered little
>> attention during the media frenzy after Chelyabinsk.
>>
>> Finally, on September 23rd, there was an ordinary chondrite fall in
>> Vicencia Brazil.
>>
>> There have been a couple of promising fireballs after the Vicencia
>> fall, but nothing has been recovered from these fireballs yet.  Unless
>> something turns up very soon, the year will end rather quiet for
>> falls, with nothing substantive since late September.  But if history
>> is any indicator, we should see a fall soon after the New Year.
>>
>> Jan 15, 2013 - "Planeta Rica" (unofficial) (ordinary chondrite?) :
>> Colombia
>> Feb 15, 2013 - Chelyabinsk - (LL5 chondrite) : Russia (Hammer)
>> Apr 19, 2013 - "Wolcott" (unofficial) (ordinary chondrite?) :
>> Connecticut USA (Hammer)
>> Apr 23, 2013 - Braunschweig (L6 chondrite) : Germany (Hammer)
>> May 09, 2013 - "Oshika" (unofficial) (ordinary chondrite?) : Namibia
>> Jun 15, 2013 - "Yuncheng-Shanxi" (unofficial) (ordinary chondrite?) :
>> China
>> Sep 23, 2013 - "Vicencia" (unofficial) (ordinary chondrite?) : Brazil
>>
>> All known falls since the year 2000 -
>> http://www.galactic-stone.com/pages/falls
>>
>> Best regards, Happy Holidays, and Happy Huntings,
>>
>> MikeG
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