[meteorite-list] Hodges Sylacauga Stone ( was What makes a hammer ahammer?

From: Dark Matter <freequarks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:01:28 -0700
Message-ID: <822da19a0901041401k11718160w20c8dcf6bd920b3_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Robert,

I've yet to see the original mass except in pictures. There are plenty
of historic pics of the incident and the intruder if one does a google
image search. Interestingly, it seems that the core sample under
discussion is still floating in googles memory on this link:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nyrockman.com/auction-2007/cp/sylacauga2.65g-cp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nyrockman.com/tucson-auction-2007.htm&usg=__BF3-jLFO0Us68kh3JzoNcuAhTFw=&h=119&w=145&sz=33&hl=en&start=28&sig2=KJYJDUh44g_uk4H8JzwIWQ&um=1&tbnid=_s-V363F_dw6CM:&tbnh=78&tbnw=95&ei=Ri5hSfrxLJ-0sQOQnLmHDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsylacauga%2Bmeteorite%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN

This thread is a little painful for me since I remember being on the
phone with Steve #1 as the slice of Sylacauga was active but ending in
the King auction. There was another bidder (or two) I was up against
going after Sylacauga. I finally bowed out knowing I would regret it
someday. Well, that day is today.

Back to my beer...

Martin


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Robert
> Woolard
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 12:21 PM
> To: MeteorHntr at aol.com
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Hodges Sylacauga Stone ( was What makes a hammer
> ahammer?
>
> Steve, Michael and all,
>
> Thanks for the additional information, Steve. Dr. King's quote does seem
> to put a different light on things.
>
> Just out of curiosity, has ANY member here ever seen THE stone (the "Holy
> Grail" of hammers I guess) in person? (Perhaps you, Martin with your
> exceptional interest in historical specimens?? ... I did see your Met. Times
> article where you discuss your Top 10 Smithsonian meteorites and you listed
> a slice of their Sylacauga specimen). Does any member live close enough to
> it at the Alabama Museum of Natural History to give us a report and/or some
> photos? There doesn't seem to be very many listed anywhere on the
> Internet.... at least that I can find. I'm sure a lot of us would love to
> see some high quality photos of it!
>
> Best,
> Robert Woolard
> )
>
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