[meteorite-list] Meteorites that fell into the water

From: David Hardy <mdavidhardy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:45 2004
Message-ID: <20020504124451.16510.qmail_at_web13802.mail.yahoo.com>

Would Tagish Lake qualify? It landed on a frozen lake and most of it later
sank when the ice melted.

David H.

--- Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> 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
>
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