[meteorite-list] ill need more AGAIN

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:08:15 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <834662.72291.qm_at_web36909.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Sterling -

Thanks much for the link. The Rev. Dick's work was
probably the ultimate source for the face on mars
stuff we see today. Incorporated into American
spiritualist movements, Dick's nonsense lives on to
today.

My favorite hoax was a trans-Atlantic balloon crossing
fabricated by Edgar Allen Poe to avenge himself on an
editor who had stiffed him.

good hunting,
E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas

--- "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Mark is certainly correct about the hoaxing
> propensities
> of 19th century (and early 20th century) newspapers.
> The
> ultimate example is that is the "Great Moon Hoax" of
> 1832:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax
>
> You will note that Mark's list is of very
> dramatic accounts.
> OK, the death of a wedding guest has a certain
> drama, but
> the death of a horse in West Virginia is not the
> stuff of a real
> blockbuster.
>
> To be sure, we need to be certain. Somebody has
> to go
> there, get the stone, and do all the scientific
> dirty work. BUT,
> that does not mean the obverse, that all unverified
> events are
> untrue, hoaxes, folk tales, urban legends, and the
> like. SOME
> are; others are not.
>
> When we get back to older historical records,
> they are most
> often just that: records, official, never made
> public, internal
> documents, private correspondence, and so forth.
> Gervase of
> Canterbury's description of a dramatic Lunar impact
> event
> witnessed on the evening of June 18, 1178, was
> recorded in
> the "day book" of the monastery and not discovered
> for many
> centuries; it was not sent immediately to cable TV.
>
> [Currently that event is on the debunking
> calendar:
> http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news118.html
> but the debunker's arguments are themselves bunk,
> well,
> that's not the topic here.]
>
> But, in Mark's wonderful collection of newspaper
> accounts
> of real meteorites that actually fell, one will find
> lots of bizarre
> "details" that sound "fake." So, if REAL falls
> produce partially
> unbelievable accounts, why should a reasonably sober
> account
> be dismissed out of hand?
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector at msn.com>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ill need more
>
>
> Michael Blood asked:
>
> "However, I was wondering what the NAME of this
> meteorite is....
> "Zvezvan" is not listed in Meteorites A to Z."
>
> Because newspaper reports are not always correct.
>
> I wouldn't add any of these to your list either
> Michael.
>
> http://www.meteoritearticles.com/meteorwrongsMT.html
>
> Clear Skies,
> Mark
>
>
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