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Re: How many Meteorites?
Calvin Shipbaugh schrieb:
> Bernd Pauli wrote:
> >
> > The U.S. Collection of Antarctic Meteorites comprises:
> >
> > Number of meteorites ======================> 8412
> > Number of meteorites classified ============> 7796
> > U.S. Antarctic meteorites in my database ===> 8116
> >
> > The Japanese Collection of Antarctic Meteorites comprises:
> >
> > Number of meteorites =======================> 8900 (approx.)
> >
> > Worldwide without Antarctica (My d.base) ===> 4039 (Monahans and
> Hebron
> > included)
> >
> > So, we have a total of about: 21,351 meteorites worldwide!
> > (at the moment - see SPACEROCKS posting)
> >
> > Regards, Bernd
>
> With regards to Antarctica, does this number reasonably take into
> account the pairings of finds that reduces the total number of
> meteorite
> events? In the rest of the world, Pultusk for example is estimated to
> have dropped hundreds of thousands of pieces and Holbrook 20,000+ but
> each represents one meteorite.
Well, Calvin
About 1728 U.S. Antarctic meteorites are known or supposed to be paired.
Quite a few of these have multiple pairings, which reduces the total. B
u t, each of these paired specimens - unlike Holbrook, Pultusk, L'Aigle,
Siena, etc. - has a sample number of its own.
Regards, Bernd
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