I remember when the first results from the Stardust mission were coming out. Everyone was surprised to see the the CI chondrites did not match as well as first thought and that the best match were the metal-rich CH chondrites. I'm not sure what the studies have shown since then but maybe someone else here knows of recent papers?

Cheers,

Jeff


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Chris, Eric, List,

Mazapil is a very old argument, indeed.

Take a look at:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2002M%26PS...37..649B
or the same at the author's website:
http://hyperion.cc.uregina.ca/~astro/Mazapil.pdf

and this one:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc1987/pdf/1377.pdf

Personally, the idea that comets drop iron meteorites
is silly. The fact that this is the one and only example, out
of thousands of falls, of the coinciding of a meteorite
fall with a meteor shower suggests to me that when you
flip coins often enough, a coin will land on its edge.


Sterling K. Webb
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Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor shower meteorite dropping events


Thanks for posting this Chris... This sounds like a good topic for an article for my magazine. If you're interested in it, and/or would like to write for the mag on this topic let me know. Anyone have a working theory based on evidence of this associative phenomena? I've heard many people suggest that meteor showers don't drop meteorites. Then I've heard people associate meteorite falls that happen during meteor showers with said shower. And I've also heard that people believe that there is ZERO connection and it's purely coincidence.

So which is it? yay or nay, or maybe? or no one really knows...?

Eric



On 8/11/2010 8:59 PM, Chris Spratt wrote:
I know of one meteor shower (November Andromedids) where an iron meteorite fell in Mazapil, Mexico during the shower.

Are there any similar events?

Chris Spratt
Victoria, BC
(Via my iPhone)
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