[meteorite-list] Colorado fireball/meteor 6/6/10

[Chris Peterson]

Dropping meteorites is probably more about entry speed and final height than 
anything else. I think there is good reason to believe that the great 
majority of meteorites are produced by quite small fireballs. We tend to get 
focused on these huge fireball events because they are so widely seen and 
well documented, but they are probably the exception. Of course, they are 
the ones likely to result in falls with really large strewn fields, but that 
isn't typical for most meteorites.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


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From: "Melanie Matthews" <miss_meteorite at yahoo.ca>
To: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>; "hxmendoza" 
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Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Colorado fireball/meteor 6/6/10


> Looks too small to have produced/dropped meteorites?