A large piece of the Marjalahti pallasite was witnessed to fall into a lake. Vladimir Stepakov, Ivan Koutyrev's partner, nearly drown while searching for this one.
Also, weren't several pieces of the Estherville mesosiderite seen to fall into a lake near a couple of boys? Regards, John Gwilliam At 12:58 PM 5/4/02 +0200, Bernd Pauli HD wrote: >Hello Serguei and List, > >The most famous meteorite that fell into a pond or a stock tank is, of >course, Pena Blanca Spring. See detailed description in Joel Schiff's >METEORITE magazine: Meteorite! (May 2000, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 36-38). > >Some of the Siena stones have also been reported to have fallen into >a pond: "Two astonished English ladies saw stones fall into a pond >and splash out water that appeared to boil." The government had the >pond drained and actually recovered some Siena stones [MARVIN >U.B. (1996) E.F. Chladni (1756-1827) and the origins of modern >meteorite research (Meteoritics 31-5, 1996, 558-561)]. > >Several Chinga specimens were found in the Chinga River basin. And >there is the Djati-Pengilon H6 chondrite which fell into the Alastoeva >river. > >Another celebrity is the Grosnaja CV3 chondrite. A shower of stones >fell, after detonations, but only 1 of about 3.5 kg was recovered as >the rest fell into the river Terek. > >Monte Milone, L5, brecciated: After detonations, many stones fell >(some in the river Potenza) 8 miles from Macerata, Italy. > >Seymchan, a IIE iron of 272.3 kg was found in the bed of a stream >flowing into the river Hekandue, a tributary of the Jasachnaja. > >Shirahagi, IVA, mass of 22.7 kg was found in the bed of the Kamiichi- >kawa river. Saotome, which is structurally similar, was found in the >same river 2 years later. > > >Best wishes, > >Bernd > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list John Gwilliam Meteorites PO Box 26854 Tempe AZ 85285 http://www.meteoriteimpact.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
