[meteorite-list] Closest meteorite

From: John Gwilliam <jkg_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:45 2004
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20020504081730.009a6e80_at_mail.theriver.com>

At 11:33 PM 5/2/02 -0700, Robert Verish wrote:
>[meteorite-list] Closest meteorite
>
>Michael Farmer farmerm_at_concentric.net
>Thu, 2 May 2002 21:39:21 -0700
>
>I would like to nominate Skip Wilson, and Gale
>Newbury. Skip lives about 100 yards from the closest
>Portales Valley piece to his house, and Gale Newbury
>had one fall through his barn roof. It dont get much
>closer than that.
>Mike
>---------------------------------------------------
>
>I would like to "second" that nomination!
>
>In the case of Skip Wilson, what are the "astonomical"
>odds that a meteorite would fall so close to a person
>who has traveled so far and who has "walked up to so
>many meteorites".
>
>It staggers the imagination.
>
>Bob Verish
>
I would guess it would be about the same astronomical odds
as finding one in your side yard...;-)

John Gwilliam



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Received on Sat 04 May 2002 11:18:45 AM PDT