[meteorite-list] Same day (was: New fall, Nkayi Zimbabwe)

Galactic Stone & Ironworks meteoritemike at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 10:54:47 EST 2015


Hi Bernd and List,

Is there any chance that meteorites which fall on the same date may be
launched paired, even if they are different types?  (perhaps they
originated from a rubble-pile parent body with multiple lithologies?)

Best regards,

MikeG
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On 2/7/15, Bernd V. Pauli via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Same day but not same year:
>
> TREIMAN A.H. (1992) Fall days of the SNC meteorites:
> Evidence for an SNC meteoroid stream, and a common site
> of origin (Meteoritics 27-1, 1992, 93-95):
>
> Abstract-Four of the SNC meteorites of putative Martian origin are falls.
> Two of these fell on October 3: Chassigny in 1815 and Zagami in 1962.
> The probability of this coincidence arising from random fall days is
> approximately 1 in 60. If this coincidence is not the result of chance, it
> suggests that some of the SNC meteorites are derived from a meteoroid
> stream. In that Chassigny and Zagami span nearly the full range of SNC
> lithologies and histories, the coincidence of fall days is consistent with
> suggestions that all of the SNCs came from a single site (impact crater)
> on their parent planet.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
>
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