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

[Walter Branch]

>I'm simply saying it seems like an awfully big >coincidence to me that they 
>hit the same location

Not at all.

Given the fact that every spot on earth has an equal probability of being 
impacted by a meteorite, the fact that two meteorites fell within a mile or 
so of each other is just random variation.  It only seems like it is more
than a coincidence because they were witnessed falls that hit houses and 
both were L6 - a very common classification..

There are documented strewnfields within strewnfields.  Once they enter the 
Earth's atmosphere, these things have to fall somewhere.  So many variables 
determine the eventual impact site, that over a long period of time (e.g.,
billions of years) these variables become random and they fall where they 
do.

Which means my backyard is equally likely to receive a meteorite as the same 
dimension of land in Antarctica, or the Atlantic ocean for that matter, only 
I haven't lived in my house long enough to see it happen:  But eventually,
my backyard will receive a meteorite: again and again and again...

And in eons past, it probably already has.

-Walter Branch