Hi Erik and all! What mapped strewnfield? The decade old one that was used for the study or a current one that extended the Franconia Area strewn field about 4 miles that was not used?
Any Phd's out there want to explain the statistics of so many falls in such a small area??? What...a .01% chance! Jim On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Erik Fisler <phxe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > You mean all those H3-5's are paired?!? Lord. > > I think people forget that there are LL's, L's and H's found from the Gold > Basin fall. To say that a mass from a parent body large enough to have a > strewn field of this size and TKW should be one homogeneous petro.-type is > silly. > This business of trying to classify every stone as a different fall for what > ever selfish or perverse reason along with having a personal attachment to > the outcome of the over all conclusion is ridiculous and completely against > the scientific method. > > How many of those YDCA or what ever H3-5's have been found outside the mapped > strewn field? And how far? > > -Erik Fisler > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 26, 2013, at 11:02 PM, Robert Verish <bolidecha...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> Just read another article in the 2013 March edition of M&PS, >> "Stones from Mohave County, Arizona: >> Multiple falls in the 'Franconia strewn field' " >> by Melinda Hutson, et al. >> >> There is much to digest from this 5-author paper that is 25 pages long. >> What with 14 stones being studied and 7 pairings to be described, there is a >> lot to chew on. >> >> Here's something to chew on. According to this paper, "Much unclassified >> material that has been distributed [sold] as 'Franconia' may not be from the >> Franconia fall". The authors make a case that more than half of the finds >> made in the "Franconia area" are paired to the Buck Mountain Wash fall. >> >> It has taken 10 years, but these findings show that I was justified in my >> belly-aching about all of the self-pairing that was occurring back then. >> It was on this very List that I was strongly criticized for this, and many >> dealers that thought they knew better defended their God-given right to name >> their stones after the Franconia meteorite that I got classified. A closer >> look at the MetBull images for Franconia shows that very few of them are >> from the Franconia fall. I offer no apologies for taking great satisfaction >> in the fact that I am now vindicated. >> >> The paper goes on to show that every Sacramento Wash numbered meteorite is >> paired to Buck Mountain Wash, which effectively has resulted in the demise >> of the SaW DCA and hastened the formation of the Yucca DCA. >> >> As I said, if you read this paper, there's a lot more to digest. >> It's late and I'm thinking about chewing on an antacid pill. >> >> -- Bob V. >> >> --- On Thu, 4/25/13, Jim Wooddell <jimwoodd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> From: Jim Wooddell <jimwoodd...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - IMB or SMB? The nomenclature of >>> Melts. >>> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> >>> Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 5:29 PM >>> Hi All! >>> Just a point of information. I just read Dr. Rubin's paper, >>> "Multiple melting in a four-layered barred-olivine chondrule with >>> compositionally heterogeneous glass from LL3.0 Semarkona" >>> Whew! That's a title for a paper! >>> While we are on the subject of melts, I thought I'd point-out >>> this paper. >>> Enjoyed reading it the first time....actually understood some >>> of it and will read it once again after thinking about it >>> for a while. >>> You folks might enjoy reading it when you get a chance! >>> Thanks Alan!! >>> >>> Jim Wooddell >> ++++++++++++++ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- Jim Wooddell jimwoodd...@gmail.com 928-247-2675 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
