| タイトル | The Holbrook Meteorite - 99 Years Out in the Weather |
| 本文（外部サイト） | http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20130011046 |
| 著者（英） | Pillinger, C. T.; Gibson, E. K.; Greenwood, R. C.; Gibson, J. M.; Pillinger, J. M. |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Johnson Space Center |
| 発行日 | 2013-03-18 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | At 7:15pm on the evening of 19th July 1912, a bright fireball appeared in the sky above Navajo County, Arizona [1]. After several loud detonations, approximately 16,000 mostly pea-sized stones fell near the Arntz siding of the Santa Fe Railroad, 7 miles from the town of Holbrook. A search orchestrated by W.M.Foote resulted in nearly 220 kg of material being recovered; samples were exchanged with a great many of the World's Museums [2]. In 1931 Harvey Nininger revisited the site and was able to find another 23 kg that had originally been missed [3]. One of us (EKG) returned again in 1968 and found a further ca 1.5 kg specimen [4]. Meteorite hunters have been going back to Holbrook ever since in the hope of more finds. For example in 2001 a group of 45 searchers accumulated 440 g of previously overlooked L6 group meteorite fragments. In 2011, the 99th anniversary of the event, Rubin Garcia located 11 mini-meteorites [5]. |
| NASA分類 | Space Sciences (General) |
| レポートNO | JSC-CN-27942 |
| 権利 | Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright |
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