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Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: METEOR EXPLODES IN SKY ABOVE NEW ZEALAND



Usually such apparent disagreements are people looking at different
data with different criteria and definitions.  I could believe both
if one were recovered meteorites and the other included multiples
due to fragmentation.
----- Original Message -----
From: <GeoZay@aol.com>
To: <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: METEOR EXPLODES IN SKY ABOVE NEW ZEALAND


> In a message dated 99-07-07 12:32:34 EDT, you write:
>
> <<
>  Field said the meteor could have been either metal or rock and was
>  probably as big a a car. A rock meteor would have broken up as it
>  came through the atmosphere and broken into a shower of stones, he
>  said He said that throughout the world about one meteor falls to
>  Earth each week.
>   >>
>
> This would seem to greatly conflict with the rates stated in Norton's book
> "Rocks From Space" of an estimated 24,000 meteorite dropping
fireballs/year
> worldwide in the 4 oz to 20 lb range?
> GeoZay
> .
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