[meteorite-list] New Concord
From: Frank Cressy <fcressy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Feb 24 15:15:58 2006 Message-ID: <20060224201555.30413.qmail_at_web80224.mail.yahoo.com> Hello Mark, Jim, and all, Mark, interesting that you should mention that in the NPA's you can find no mention of the New Concord meteorite hitting or killing a colt or horse. There is also no mention of that "fact" in Farrington's 1915 "Catelogue of the Meteorites of North America to January 1, 1915". Farrington devotes nearly 13 pages to New Concord extensively quoting early eyewitness accounts. No Equine killing. As to the stones hitting something, his sources describes 3 rails of a fence being broken, a decayed log being completely penetrated by a stone, and a barn being hit. So it is indeed a hammer. The only mention of a horse is the following: "One observer saw a stone fall within 3 feet of his horses head". So I too am wondering too if the dead colt is real. Could it have been an insurance scam? ;-) Cheers, Frank Received on Fri 24 Feb 2006 03:15:55 PM PST |
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