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

From: ensoramanda at ntlworld.com <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:49:13 +0000
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Hi Michael,

Check out Jeff's website here...excellent. The Sikhote video should be right up your street. Set aside 18 minutes and go back in time. I like to think that I might have the piece of shrapnel that went straight through the huge tree that one guy illustrates by by poking a stick right through....who knows. ;-)

Graham Ensor, UK.


---- Michael Bross <element33 at peconic.net> wrote:
> Hello Listers
>
> Personally, I would love the Sikhote-Alin one which struck a Cedar tree...
> It would combine 2 passions: trees and the new one, meteorites.
> Just dreaming :) (if even available, it must be so much $$$...)
>
> Good evening everyone
> Michael B
>
> PS: thanks for your website Michael Blood, I learned a lot thru it cf
> Historic meteorites etc...
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
> To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>; "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and Hammers - warning, LONG.
>
>
> Hi Martin and all,
> In my upcoming book, I will be addressing this issue
> At length. However, the condensed version is: "A man
> Made artifact, animal or human" leaves itself open when
> It comes to streets - and even more controversial, dirt
> Roads.
> It is a "personal" line one has to draw for one's self,
> And not always an easy one. I struggled with a meteorite
> That struck a cultivated fruit tree and if a meteorite
> Were to cause a significant pit in an ancient, rock Roman
> Road, would THAT make it a hammer?
> There really isn't a definitive answer to such questions.
> They are, rather, matters of opinion.
> Michael Gilmer recently asked how many hammers
> Other collectors have.... I believe my collection is currently
> Only about 64. However, even when comparing hammer
> Collections there is a big variation in coparisons. If someone
> Has 75 hammers, but they are all tiny, thumbnails and
> Most of mine are rather large macromounts, which collection
> Is the "largest?" Then, I know a good number of people who
> Have REALLY nice sized hammers of full slices or whole stones
> several hundreds of grams each, whereas mine might average
> Closer to 5 grams each - mostly part slices. (Like so many
> Of us, my collection is influenced strongly by what I can afford).
> I do have a full slice of Kunashack and a fist sized hammer
> Stone that was part of the original report found on a roof in
> Thuathe, but they have to go if someone offers to buy them
> because my income Does not support a huge collection of $2,500
> to $5,000 each per specimen (and I would certainly like to end
> up with a HUGE hammer collection. I would like to have a specimen
> Of every known hammer fall - actual hammer stones, each, but
> Such is, for all practical purposes, impossible...)
> Then, again, some specimens cannot be
> Had in larger sizes regardless of financiers, such as St. Louis,
> Wethersfield '71 - and my Sylacauga would have to be
> Considered "huge" even though it is an ultra thin quarter sized
> Part slice - because it just cannot be had larger.
> So, what is a hammer? Again, that is a question everyone
> Will answer for themselves.
> Best wishes, Michael
>
>
>
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