Sonny
asked,
>
I would like know why certain areas hold more meteorites and , could
these areas
> be Super Accumulation Areas? For example
Gold Basin has produced 3000 +
> meteorites. Four different types, three
ordinary chondrites and one mesosiderite.
If
Gold Basin has truly produced only four different meteorite types (isn't
it
more
than that?), then I suppose I would call that unusual -- unusually
low.
With
the army of people that have been working that area for so long,
I
would
expect a greater number of serendipitous finds unpaired to Gold
Basin.
What's
the approximate area that we're talking about, in square
kilometers?
On a
good-quality, old surface, the area in km^2 is about how many
unpaired
meteorites you should expect to
find.
> There has been other strewnfields with
different types of meteorite all found in the
> same location.
This is a natural
consequence of focused searching. Meteorites are
everywhere,
but people don't
hunt just anywhere -- most hours are spent where
other
meteorites
have been found. Indeed, once you've found one,
that sort of tells
you that the
region is "hospitable" to meteorites, improving the odds that
others
will be
found.
Cheers,
Rob
