It could just be dumb chance. Most of the lunars found don't appear to have fallen recently. We might be in a period when, for the couple of hundred years since meteorites started to be recognized for what they are, no lunars arrived where humans were in a position to witness their arrival.
My 2 Bessey Specks (which is about all I can afford of planetaries!) Best! Tracy ---------------------------------------- > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:49:15 -0700 > From: steve.dunk...@yahoo.com > To: almi...@localnet.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed fall lunars?still no clear answere > > Hi everyone. You did a good job of thrashing my response without giving an > answere to the original question. Why are there no lunar witnessed falls? DR > kortev did say there are twice as many Martian impacts,which to me is a lot > or many more. Another person questioned if they would have enough velocity to > be seen which is a verry good point because some would reach terminal > velocity much sooner than an object from mars or the astroid belt. The amount > of time recovered lunars take to reach earth has been said to be the same as > mars meteorites. I am beginning to believe it may be a matter of recognition. > A lunar would reach terminal velocity 20 or more miles up and fall without > making a sound. And if it did make a sound the person finding it would do > everyones "is it a meteorite" test. Brown or green crust? Doesnt stick to a > magnet.vesicles on the crust. Must not be a meteorite. And what size does it > take to launch a rock from the moon?small would do it. > Cheers Steve > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
