Hi Sterling, Larry, all - I'm feeling a bit thick headed today, so I'm going to argue for a lower Earth impact rate again.
It seems to me that another problem with all of these crater models is their assumption that an impactor is either going to hit or miss. It seems to me that in the real world, the gravitational effects of the Earth+Moon system should draw items in, gradually changing their orbits from those passing near to ones which intersect. This should mean multiple passes before impact, many of them near the Earth, or in other words, very near or onto the Moon. good hunting all, E.P. Grondine PS - I think we all remember the unusual Canadian meteorite laws, and the sorry situation which occurred in recovering the Tagish Lake fall. This means an adventurous time for anyone going after the mammoth pepperer, though certainly nothing to produce as exciting accounts as South America. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list