[meteorite-list] Main Mass finder and the Paragould Meteorite
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:51 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV1032djy7S4a0001a00c_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C40C09.59D81970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable See what you started now John...:-) Witness and finder of the main mass, W. Hodges report. "Was going off the porch when the light went out. Almost at once heard d= efinite violent explosion from about 45' angle above and about 38' west o= f south from him. Second detonation fro 45' above horizon and slightly mo= re east than north, perhaps two or three seconds after first. Was first = man to find hole. Fixing fence and came to get a pole. A week before th= e pasture had been burnt off and revealed pile of clay thrown by meteorit= e - immediately thought it was a piece of the meteorite. Round hole eight= feet in diameter, depth of eight inches from surface, was vertical, and = loose dirt tapered to funnel and bottom of hole of water and was two feet= below of surface. Got Joe Fletcher and took slender stake, punched stra= ight down from middle seven or eight feet, found nothing. Moved eighteen= inches southwest and hit rock about eighteen or twenty inches down. Gob= s of dirt thrown fifty yards in all directions. Nine feet to bottom or r= ock. Big bump end or rock against west of southwest wall. Shallowest ro= ck lay about fifteen to twenty-four inches west of southwest of center of= hole." source: Find a Falling Star, (pg. 39-40) Harvey Nininger. Mark Bostick www.meteoritearticles.com ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C40C09.59D81970 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV>See what you s= tarted now John...:-)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Witn= ess and finder of the main mass, W. Hodges report.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV= > <DIV>"Was going off the porch when the light went out. Almost at = once heard definite violent explosion from about 45' angle above and abou= t 38' west of south from him. Second detonation fro 45' above horizon and= slightly more east than north, perhaps two or three seconds after first.= Was first man to find hole. Fixing fence and came to get a p= ole. A week before the pasture had been burnt off and revealed pile= of clay thrown by meteorite - immediately thought it was a piece of the = meteorite. Round hole eight feet in diameter, depth of eight inches from = surface, was vertical, and loose dirt tapered to funnel and bottom of hol= e of water and was two feet below of surface. Got Joe Fletcher and = took slender stake, punched straight down from middle seven or eight feet= , found nothing. Moved eighteen inches southwest and hit rock about= eighteen or twenty inches down. Gobs of dirt thrown fifty yards in= all directions. Nine feet to bottom or rock. Big bump end or= rock against west of southwest wall. Shallowest rock lay about fif= teen to twenty-four inches west of southwest of center of hole."</DIV> <D= IV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>source: Find a Falling Star, (pg. = 39-40) Harvey Nininger.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <= DIV>Mark Bostick</DIV> <DIV><A href=3D"http://www.meteoritearticles.com">= www.meteoritearticles.com</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></= BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C40C09.59D81970-- Received on Wed 17 Mar 2004 11:19:37 AM PST |
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