[meteorite-list] WG: Witnessed Falls and Hammers - warning, LONG.

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:04:38 -0400
Message-ID: <1EEB6B1A-56F1-411B-807D-112163B0A13E_at_dof3.com>

...and kunashak is among the most beautiful of OCs.


On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Martin Altmann wrote:

>
> Hmm,
> honestly I never was aware the last decades that this category
> "hammer" had
> any meaning or importance.
> Of course Peekskill car, was a curiosity like Claxton. But people were
> buying Barwell, cause it was Barwell and Mbale, cause it was Mbale
> and it
> was only a funny side note, that a pea hit the head of a boy and
> Kunashak...but Kunashak virtually nobody was buying :-)
> Also in the classical meteorite books you won't find any category:
> hammers.
> So I'm astonished about that hype and that collectors suddenly since
> 2-3
> years are paying triple to tenfold prices for the same falls than
> all the
> decades before.
>
> Walter, Walter, what have you done :-)
>
> Best!
> Martin
>
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> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and Hammers - warning,
> LONG.
>
> I think to be considered a hammer the meteorite needs to hit a human-
> made
> structure, like a building or car. Seems to me that many have taken
> the term
> and bastardized it to the point where it has lost its true meaning and
> interest (at least to me).
> Matt
> Matt Morgan
> Mile High Meteorites
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> Lakewood, CO 80215 USA
>
>
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