[meteorite-list] New Concord

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Feb 24 21:04:53 2006
Message-ID: <C024FB37.28C1F%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Oh, oh,
        Here come the Naklah Dog theories.....
        Michael


on 2/24/06 12:15 PM, Frank Cressy at fcressy_at_prodigy.net wrote:

> 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
>
>
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