[meteorite-list] Most searched meteorites of 2013

From: PolandMET <marcin_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 22:31:52 +0100
Message-ID: <8BFF32A6C5694AAEA3774487A5C449ED_at_meteorytf1cafb>

Very interesting Jeff
Can You post detailed list lets say TOP100 with numbers of hits on each
meteorite ?
Why peoples search for Sikhotes ? NWA869 ? hmm. They dont see enough of them
on ebay, google photos, web pages, their own boxes ? This is like search for
potatos or coca-cola bottles.
Strange

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> Something happened in week 18 of 2013 (end of April), and thousands of
> people looked at Sikhote-Alin. This was about 7 weeks after the fall of
> Chelyabinsk. I don't know what it triggered this. But this spike,
> combined with the normal background interest in S-A, put it in 1st place.
>
> In point of fact, you may recall that my server got taken down by a crush
> of hits on Fukang in October, when an article got posted on the Facebook
> page "I f---ing love science". From the log, I could tell that I was
> getting many thousands of (failed) hits per hour. If I could have handled
> this, Fukang would have beaten both S-A and Chelyabinsk.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On 12/31/2013 3:25 PM, Michael Farmer wrote:
>> Great data Jeff. Thanks for compiling and reporting it to us. I'm
>> shocked that Chelyabinsk wasn't number one by orders of magnitude
>> The rest are no surprising.
>> Michael Farmer
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Jeff Grossman <jngrossman at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Here are the top 10 meteorite searches from the MetBull database in
>>> 2013, in decreasing order of popularity.
>>>
>>> Sikhote-Alin (Iron, IIAB)
>>> Chelyabinsk (LL5)
>>> Northwest Africa 7325 (Achondrite-ung)
>>> Hoba (Iron, IVB)
>>> Fukang (Pallasite, PMG)
>>> Northwest Africa 7034 (Martian (basaltic breccia))
>>> Tissint (Martian (shergottite))
>>> Northwest Africa 869 (L3-6)
>>> Campo del Cielo (Iron, IAB-MG)
>>> Allende (CV3)
>>>
>>> Sikhote-Alin, Fukang, NWA 869, Campo, and Allende have been perennial
>>> favorites since I first compiled the list in 2007.
>>>
>>> Happy new year!
>>>
>>> Jeff
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