[meteorite-list] Meteorites that fell into the water

From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:45 2004
Message-ID: <3CD3BEE8.88FD73B4_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Hello Serguei and List,

The most famous meteorite that fell into a pond or a stock tank is, of
course, Pena Blanca Spring. See detailed description in Joel Schiff's
METEORITE magazine: Meteorite! (May 2000, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 36-38).

Some of the Siena stones have also been reported to have fallen into
a pond: "Two astonished English ladies saw stones fall into a pond
and splash out water that appeared to boil." The government had the
pond drained and actually recovered some Siena stones [MARVIN
U.B. (1996) E.F. Chladni (1756-1827) and the origins of modern
meteorite research (Meteoritics 31-5, 1996, 558-561)].

Several Chinga specimens were found in the Chinga River basin. And
there is the Djati-Pengilon H6 chondrite which fell into the Alastoeva
river.

Another celebrity is the Grosnaja CV3 chondrite. A shower of stones
fell, after detonations, but only 1 of about 3.5 kg was recovered as
the rest fell into the river Terek.

Monte Milone, L5, brecciated: After detonations, many stones fell
(some in the river Potenza) 8 miles from Macerata, Italy.

Seymchan, a IIE iron of 272.3 kg was found in the bed of a stream
flowing into the river Hekandue, a tributary of the Jasachnaja.

Shirahagi, IVA, mass of 22.7 kg was found in the bed of the Kamiichi-
kawa river. Saotome, which is structurally similar, was found in the
same river 2 years later.


Best wishes,

Bernd
Received on Sat 04 May 2002 06:58:48 AM PDT