[meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

[Matthias Bärmann]

Hello Eric,

four days ago I tried to post the following text to the list but obviously 
it didn't get through:

Estimated list-members,

sorry, in German only, but interesting regarding the question whether the 
subjective impression of more meteoroids hitting earth correlates to an 
objective fact:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/678/462297/text/

Short summary:

Refering to Nasa expert David Morrison an increasing accumulation of 
meteoritical material in the mud-layer at the deep sea bottom proves that 
our solar system passes throgh a region of denser space-traffic during the 
last few years. (With other words: Bassikounou, Chergach, Hosur, Tamdaght, 
West, Lolland, Station 6 etc. - obviously not only just by chance.)

In this context the text also underlines the increasing probability of 
bigger asteroids hitting our planet. But, alas, in contrary to the USA 
nearly nothing seems to be done in Europe to reenforce programms for 
monitoring the asteroidical traffic around earth.

Best regards,

Matthias

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Meteorites USA" <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:22 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded


> Over the past few months or so I've been tracking many fireball sightings 
> and suspected new falls all over the world. Recently we've had no fewer 
> than 4 right here in the United States. Not to mention the Denmark fall, 
> Tamdaught, West, Westchester, Augusta, Sacramento, and the Merced 
> Fireball. And the largest meteorite fall in Canadian history Buzzard 
> Coulee! I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
>
> Now another big event near MD, VA area: 
> http://www.wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1636442 
> <http://www.wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1636442>
>
> I asked this a week or so ago, but got very little response other than 
> "yeah sure".
>
> Isn't this abnormally high meteor activity? Is our planet traveling 
> through a large field of asteroidal space debris right now? How can some 
> many fireballs and meteorite falls happen in such a short period of time 
> unless this were the case?
>
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
>
>
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