[meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:20:02 -0800
Message-ID: <C1DA2432.3250B%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Hi Graham,
        It was a 3g Mbale which crashed through a banana tree before
striking a kid, making it both a tree trimmer and a hammer. (That
fall also struck village structures). See the blurb on this under 1992
at
http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/Hammers.html
        Best wishes, Michael

on 1/22/07 2:28 AM, ensoramanda at ensoramanda at ntlworld.com wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> One more...the most recent....Moss! Carbonaceous like Mokoia too.
> I think one of the African ones was supposed to have fallen through a
> tree near a child as I remember...cant remember exactly which tho.
> I quite liked Geralds suggestion of 'Axes' as opposed to 'Hammers' but
> Tree trimmer is good too :-)
> Tunguska certainly took out a few trees eh?....although technically it
> probably never hit a tree!!!
>
> Any other Tree trimmers/Axes out there?
>
> Dont think Barwell hit a tree....but part of it did end up in a plant
> pot, after the road/roof and breaking the window!
>
> Regards
>
> Graham Ensor Nr Barwell
>
>
>
>
> Michael L Blood wrote:
>
>> I can think of 3 of these
>> tree trimmers,
>> limb busters,
>> branch breakers,
>> arborites,
>> sapsuckers,
>> tree tilters,
>> arbor-ate'ms,
>> balsa bumpers,
>> coniferous conkers, etc:
>> 1) Sikhote-Aline
>> 2) Mokoia
>> 3) The grand daddy of them all, the yet to be identified Tunguska
>> monster.
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> on 1/21/07 7:39 PM, Gerald Flaherty at grf2 at verizon.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Perhaps we should come up with a silly name for meteorites that hit
>>> trees then! ;-)
>>> Any suggestions welcome.....
>>> axes not axis.
>>> Jerry Flaherty
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "ensoramanda" <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>
>>> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:34 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Exciting New meteorite material....Mokoia,
>>> Wairarapa and Alta Ameem
>>>
>>>
>>>
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