[meteorite-list] Most searched meteorites of 2013

From: Jeff Grossman <jngrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:22:51 -0500
Message-ID: <52C335AB.8090409_at_gmail.com>

Something happened in week 18 of 2013 (end of April), and thousands of
people looked at Sikhote-Alin. This was about 7 weeks after the fall of
Chelyabinsk. I don't know what it triggered this. But this spike,
combined with the normal background interest in S-A, put it in 1st place.

In point of fact, you may recall that my server got taken down by a
crush of hits on Fukang in October, when an article got posted on the
Facebook page "I f---ing love science". From the log, I could tell that
I was getting many thousands of (failed) hits per hour. If I could have
handled this, Fukang would have beaten both S-A and Chelyabinsk.

Jeff



On 12/31/2013 3:25 PM, Michael Farmer wrote:
> Great data Jeff. Thanks for compiling and reporting it to us. I'm
> shocked that Chelyabinsk wasn't number one by orders of magnitude
> The rest are no surprising.
> Michael Farmer
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Jeff Grossman <jngrossman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Here are the top 10 meteorite searches from the MetBull database in 2013, in decreasing order of popularity.
>>
>> Sikhote-Alin (Iron, IIAB)
>> Chelyabinsk (LL5)
>> Northwest Africa 7325 (Achondrite-ung)
>> Hoba (Iron, IVB)
>> Fukang (Pallasite, PMG)
>> Northwest Africa 7034 (Martian (basaltic breccia))
>> Tissint (Martian (shergottite))
>> Northwest Africa 869 (L3-6)
>> Campo del Cielo (Iron, IAB-MG)
>> Allende (CV3)
>>
>> Sikhote-Alin, Fukang, NWA 869, Campo, and Allende have been perennial favorites since I first compiled the list in 2007.
>>
>> Happy new year!
>>
>> Jeff
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