[meteorite-list] Fw: Still un answered question

From: Jerry <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:10:13 -0500
Message-ID: <E2B48866098647D2B03B31C7D53E1C04_at_Notebook>

Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
To: "Jerry" <grf2 at verizon.net>; "Peter A Shugar" <pshugar at clearwire.net>;
"LIST" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Still un answered question


Nope. Just *ONE* meteorite hunter -- Skip Wilson -- a very methodical
and thorough one. "A meteorite every 22.5 square miles" doesn't really
tell the story -- Skip searched (continues to search?) a much smaller
area than this, but he is very selective about the surfaces searched.
In ideal locations, the meteorite density is much, much higher than
1 per 22.5 square miles. If the average terrestrial lifetime of a
meteorite is, say, 5000 years, the expected density is more like 3
meteorites per square mile. --Rob

P.S. Feel free to forward this to the meteorite list. You'll see
that I included it in the "To" list, but I guarantee it won't show
up there.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Jerry
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:25 AM
To: Peter A Shugar; LIST
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Still un answered question

Sounds like ideal search conditions and a hulava lot of meteorite
hunters.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter A Shugar" <pshugar at clearwire.net>
To: "LIST" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:04 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Still un answered question


> Still unanswered is the other question:
> And then there is little dinky Roosevelt Co, NM at just 2,455 sq miles
and
> it has a staggering 109 meteorites, which comes to one for every 22.5
sq
> miles. What gives?
> They are of a wide variety of classifications, so it can't be turning
> every piece in
> for classification. I can't speak for anyone else, but I find this
very
> puzzling.
> Any thoughts, List?
> Pete
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