[meteorite-list] Chebarkul, Russia - Pultusk peas 2.0?

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:06:31 -0500
Message-ID: <20130219160631.1T289.325279.imail_at_eastrmwml214>

Bjorn,
You may be right but, this seems to be a lot like Carancas as well. Lots of peas and the rest is soup. Also, like Carancas an ordinary chondrite, big in the news and historically important and high priced at first but, due to small sizes it might be very easy to satisfy collectors needs and the high price will fade quickly. Hopefully they find a lot more when things thaw out to keep the price affordable.
Carl
meteopritemax

--
Cheers
---- Bjorn Sorheim <astrogeo at online.no> wrote: 
> List,
> Looking at the images I posted earlier today and the other smaller
> fragments goverment scientists collected plus information about 1000+
> small black meteorites from maybe one village, it seems this fall
> deserves to be compared to the massive fall of pea-sized meteorites
> like Pultusk, Poland 1868 (H5).
> 
> An asteroid with 10000 tons of mass will retain a very large percentage
> of its cosmic velocity, so the energy will break it up in probably just
> smaller fragments. So maybe what is out there in South Ural is
> mostly these meteorite peas?
> On the light side The Pultusk fall with 180000! total fragments had
> 200 over 1 kg, with largest 9 kg, so there is still hope...
> 
> Bj?rn S?rheim
> 
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