[meteorite-list] More Meteorite Geography Trivia

[Carl 's]

Sterling and others,

Wouldn't a large meteoritoid that created a large strewnfield change the statistic versus a single stone landing? I flunked statistics in high school. Problems like this used to make my head hurt.

Carl (Dense as a brick)


Sterling wrote:


>Well, the answer is that the chances of a meteorite landing

>anywhere are exactly the same as of it landing anywhere else.

>The "landing" of a meteorite is as purely random an event as

>any natural event can be. There is no causal connection

>between the path of the meteoroid and the geography of

>the Earth or indeed, anything about the Earth except that

>it got in the way of the meteoroid.





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