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

From: Walter Branch <waltbranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:57:44 -0400
Message-ID: <FB735B4F1311405196F974FC9CE72ED8_at_Walter>

>Walter, Walter, what have you done :-)

Don't blame me! I just started that table for fun.

Like you, I am also astonished at how much people are willing to pay for a
meteorite because it hit something.

Of course, I am also astonished over how much people are willing to pay for
essentially a speck of dust which looks like a dead gnat

-Walter Branch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:55 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] WG: Witnessed Falls and Hammers - warning, LONG.



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
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
P.O. Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215 USA



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