[meteorite-list] Nogata Meteorite

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 03:13:13 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <20070108021313.83206.qmail_at_web26214.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

I have 3 type of photos on books of Nogata,
unfortunately its visible the matrix of the book
paper.

Matteo

--- Michael L Blood <mlblood at cox.net> ha scritto:

> Hi Peter,
> The only image I have seen of it was in a
> video about meteorites.
> For those in the peanut gallery, it is the stone
> that fell May 19, 861ad.
> in Nogata, Japan, crashing through the roof of a
> monastery of Buddhist
> monks. It is the oldest documented hammer I know of.
> I believe not one
> single mg has ever been made available to any one or
> any institution. It
> is highly revered by the monks, supposedly because
> it is considered to
> have fallen from heaven. (Such reported beliefs are
> often ethnocentrically
> biased and/or involve misinterpretations in
> translation - so, who can say
> how/what the monks REALLY think of it) - in any
> event, it is highly
> regarded and absolutely none of the material has
> ever been available).
> In the video, a monk brought out the box in
> which it is kept and
> the video was quite clear, as the interviewer and
> the monk were outside
> in the courtyard. It was larger than a golf ball but
> smaller than a
> baseball.
> If you do discover a still photo of it, I
> would much appreciate if
> you let me know of it, as I am working on a book
> about hammers. Right
> now all I have depictions of are mostly the 40 or 45
> I have for sale. As
> rare as some of them are, I would say Nogata takes
> the cake, as it is
> TOTALLY unavailable.
> Good luck, Michael
>
> on 1/7/07 5:10 PM, peterscherff at rcn.com at
> peterscherff at rcn.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I hope someone can help me. I am looking for a
> photo of the Nogata
> > Meteorite that I can use in a powerpoint
> presentation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter Scherff
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