[meteorite-list] Nice meteor video from the Russian site

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Sep 3 22:58:16 2006
Message-ID: <008101c6cfcd$f3a8f760$0b5ae146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi,

    Having too much fun. The big Texas meteorite does exist.
It's RED RIVER; most of it is at Yale ("yel'skeyeo university").

"A mass of about 1635lb (741.5kg) and two smaller ones
were found by Pawnee Indians about 1808, north by northwest
of Natchitoches on the Red River in lat. 32?7'N, and long.
95?10'W'; the large mass was brought to New York in 1810
(C.H., 1824). Description, analysis, 8.46 %Ni, B. Silliman
& T.S. Hunt (1846). The place of find cannot be accurately
placed; it is believed to be in Smith County, though Johnson
County, (32.25?N, 97.25?W) is also suggested - it is certainly
a long way from the Red River. Suggested location 33?30'N,
99?30'W; description, shock-hardened, V.F. Buchwald (1975).
Further analysis, 7.70 %Ni, 19.7 ppm.Ga, 38.5 ppm.Ge,
4.4 ppm. Ir, E.R.D Scott et al. (1973)."

    CASAS GRANDES was found in a tomb in Mexico
(no mention of an altar); it's been cut and scattered. No
Mound Builder meteorites in Ohio. One tiny meteoritic
bead in Illinois, though. Hardly an altar stuffed with
meteorites....

    It's probably not fair to make fun of something that's
been Babelfished; that's funny enough. I wouldn't want to
be struck down by a Leonid...


Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Nice meteor video from the Russian site


> Hi, Darren,
>
>
> And, by all means, don't miss this extended history of the
> legends and lore of meteorites throughout history:
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ru_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.meteorites.ru%2fmenu%2fencyclopaedia%2fgor-met.html
>
> There is a long piece about the possible meteorite in the
> Ka'aba in Meccah, sections on the use of meteorites by various
> tribal groups, including Native Americans, that raises some
> strange questions. Is there a 3000 kg meteorite in the altar
> of Casa Grande in Mexico? A meteorite altar in an Ohio
> Mound Builder tomb? What about that 742 kilo meteorite
> taken from Texas to New York in 1808?
>
> I like this section best: "Sometimes space forces clearly interfere
> in the course of terrestrial events, attempting to prevent the forces
> of evil. At the moment of preparation by the Pentagon the air strike
> through Iraq to the earth was thus brought down the meteor shower
> Leonid. Dangers underwent the approximately 600 acting satellites
> in different orbits, whose substantial part it attends the armed forces
> OF THE USA. Nevertheless, the atheistic disposed American
> authorities did not heed to 'warning' of skies."
>
> Gee, I remember when the common fodder of politicians was
> the "Godless Communists" and the "atheistic" Soviets... Now,
> it's the spiritual forces of space using the Leonids as anti-satellite
> weaponry against the atheistic Americans and their Empire of Evil.
>
> It's so hard to keep all this stuff straight...
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
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