[meteorite-list] Witnessed fall lunars?

Michael Blood mlblood at cox.net
Tue Sep 7 01:35:36 EDT 2010


This might be one.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/North-American-Lunar-Meteorite-/120618283540?pt=LH_Defau
ltDomain_0&hash=item1c1568f214

Michael


On 9/6/10 2:05 PM, "Met. Michael Gilmer" <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> Is there a theory for why there have been no witnessed falls of lunar
> meteorites?  It seems odd to me that we have 4 Martian witnessed falls
> (Shergotty, Chassigny, Zagami, Nakhla, and almost Lafayette) and no
> lunars.
> 
> I also find it odd that no lunaites have been recovered from the
> Americas or Europe.
> 
> It would seem that we are long overdue for two things to happen - for
> a lunaite to be recovered in the Americas/Europe and for a lunar
> witnessed fall.  I wonder which will happen first?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> MikeG





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