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

From: Michael Bross <element33_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:40:00 +0100
Message-ID: <04cc01c9a118$bf1bb180$a11c215a_at_Inspiron8200>

Hi Graham and list

Sorry ! I was sending the link to the video at almost the same time you send
it too !
Nice, great "coincidence" :)

I have a photo from the meteorite in the trunk, but didn't keep the website
source to it. (what a fool)
Quite impressive (but can't send it to the list, no attachment
unfortunately)

If you don't have it I can send it to you off list. Let me know (but I am
sure you have it !)

If you know anybody selling a part of it, I am interested

Good evening
Michael



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


> 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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