Greater awareness, less vegetation, higher population growth, less TV-sets and worse programs, the grown mineral and fossils market/prospecting, darker nights...
Who knows. I wanted to say only to Ryan, that the number of recovered falls per surface size isn't that out of the probability. .......hmmm, whether the dramatic regress of finds in other parts of the World has a sociological reason too? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Jeff Grossman Gesendet: Samstag, 17. Januar 2009 23:27 An: Meteorite-list Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Northwest Africa Falls - Question Martin and list, Actually, there is something suspicious. Northwest Africa (the countries you listed plus Western Sahara and Tunisia) has seen between 0 and 3 falls per decade from the 1900s through the 1980s. The 1990s saw 6, and the 2000s have now got 8. There is no parallel increase in the rest of Africa, which in fact has been steadily declining in fall rates since the 1940s. Europe has also been declining since the 1930s (in fall rates), as has North America. I think northwest Africa is the only place in the world that is seeing any kind of increase in rate, and it has been dramatic, tripling in the last decade. The are various sociological reasons why this increase might have happened, which we can argue about. But there certainly IS something to raise ones eyebrows. Jeff Martin Altmann wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > it's because of the iron mountain in Atlas, which still has to be found and > which attracts with his magnetic field all iron-bearing lumps from space. > > No. Take a World map, hold little Europe (forget a little bit about > Scandinavia), > hold it against that NWA region, Algeria, Mali, Niger, Morocco, > Mauretania.... > > And let's count the falls: > > Let's start with Zag 1998. > > NWA-Regions: > > Zag 1998 > El Idrissa 1998 > Djoumine 1999 > Beni M'hira 2001 > Bensour 2002 > Oum Dreyga 2003 > Maigatari-Danduma 2004 > Benguerir 2004 > Bassikounou 2006 > Chergach 2007 > And now the new possible fall. > > Europe: > > Ourique 1998 > Leighlinbridge 1999 > Moravka 2000 > San Michele 2002 > Neuschwanstein 2002 > Alby sur Cheran 2002 > Villalbeto 2004 > Moss 2006 > Puerto Lapice 2007 > Romanian Fall 2008 > > 11 : 11. > > So nothing suspicious. > > USA had 7 > India 10 > > > Best! > Martin > > > > > Ok Folks, > > I am curious to know why there are so many witnessed (recovered) meteorite > falls in Northwest Africa as opposed to anywhere else in the world. Is there > a good logical and/or scientifc explanation for this?.. or just a > coincidence? I understand that some "falls" simply turn out to be a case of > Nomadic lies in an attempt to liquidate (recycle) old material, but what > about the others? Perhpas it has something to do with it's geographical > location in relation to..? > And yes, I do understand these people spend countless hours outdoors, in the > desert, ect. but.. > > What are your thoughts? > > Ryan > > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > -- Dr. Jeffrey N. Grossman phone: (703) 648-6184 US Geological Survey fax: (703) 648-6383 954 National Center Reston, VA 20192, USA ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
