[meteorite-list] When a fall turns out to be a find not recently fallen.

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:14:16 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <8CFECCDAABFA9E8-1958-47337_at_webmail-m174.sysops.aol.com>

Hello Francis,

This has happened many many times.
The "Handbook of Meteorites" by Buchwald is full of those stories.


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
To: Francis Graham <fgraham at kent.edu>
Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 6:12 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] When a fall turns out to be a find not
recently fallen.


Yes, Sri Lanka right now.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 11, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Francis Graham <fgraham at kent.edu> wrote:

> Dear List,
> It is possible that a meteorite might be seen to fall, and then the
> site of the fall investigated and a meteorite found; but upon later
> analysis the weathering, etc. reveals that the meteorite collected
> couldn't possibly have been the witnessed fall, but instead a
> coincidental independent find.
> My question, has this ever happened in real life?
>
> Francis Graham
> East Pittsburgh
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