Re: [meteorite-list] Oriented Sikote Ailin

2008-03-04 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - The oriented Sikote Ailin offered for sale has got me to thinking - this impactor had to come in as a swarmm, with one main body later air bursting? I don't see how a fragment could have oriented after the air burst, but perhaps someone out there on the list would be generous enough to

Re: [meteorite-list] Oriented Sikote Ailin

2008-03-04 Thread Mr EMan
Hello E.P--It was more dynamic than a single disruption. If I recall, there were 14-17(?) or more major explosive disruptions. Each should have produced a separate swarm of fragments. Be it remembered that ALL fragments born of these swarms were shrapnel-shaped if but for an instant before