[meteorite-list] Fw: Re: More Meteorite Geography Trivia

[Zelimir Gabelica]

Frank is perfectly right.

Now, if you take into account the ratio between the weight (kg) and the 
island surface area, you can calculate the average number of meteorite kg 
thet fell per square km for 3 small islands (there could be more)

         Island          surface 
(km2)   Meteorite               tkw             kg/km2 (x 10-3)

         Oahu            1545            Honolulu + P. 
Valley    3.682           2.38
         Mauritius       1866            Mauritius               0.222 
      0.189
         Jamaica         11425           Lucky 
Hill              20.4+           1.79+

Now taking 2 small countries (I did not go through all):

         Lesotho         30355           Thuathe                 30+ 
      0.99
         Swaziland       17363           Dwaleni                 3.230 
      0.186

In all cases Oahu wins...

Good going for other weird evaluations!

Cheers

Zelimir


A 08:45 13/12/2008 -0800, Frank Cressy a écrit :




>  Hello All,
>
>  Michael wrote:
>
>
> > 1) Jamaica has one known meteorite, Lucky Hill, an
> > iron IIIAB. What are the chances of a meteorite landing on
> > a relatively small island in the middle of a sea? This
> > meteorite could have easily ended up on the bottom of
> > the Caribbean, but instead it gets to spend it's days
> > in a tropical beach paradise.
>
>I think Hawaii goes one better.  Two meteorite falls,
>Honolulu (1825) and Palolo Valley (1949) both fell on Oahu,
>a small island in the much larger Pacific Ocean.  Incidently
>both meteorites fell in the capitol of Honolulu only about five miles from 
>one another.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Frank
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