[meteorite-list] Related Meteorite Falls 11 years apart? BothHammers! Both L6 Olivine-hypersthene

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 20:22:19 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <825521.96597.qm_at_web113613.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

--- On Sun, 3/7/10, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:


> Even so, asteroids are predictable. Very predictable in
> fact...


> One could be traveling slightly faster than
> the other but
> in the exact same elliptical orbit around the Sun. One
> piece could
> impact Earth while the other, being further behind misses,
> and doesn't
> cross the same space at the same time as Earth for another
> 11 years.

Yes Eric, all this is possible, but VERY unlikely...

One very important thing you left out of your original question was not the locations of the classifications, but the dates

Wethersfield (1971) fell on April 8th
Wethersfield (1982) fell on November 8th

7 (or 5) months apart...

Since the Earth was essentially on the other side of the Sun at the time of each fall, that pretty much eliminates any chance the two objects were in the same orbit.

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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
      

Received on Sun 07 Mar 2010 11:22:19 PM PST