[meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and Hammers - CARANCAS

From: Mr EMan <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:30:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <686231.92125.qm_at_web55204.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

I recall from reports at the time that some already dead and buried "Carcancas Carcasses" were excavated/exposed by/near the crater. Something else was mentioned during the fog of thought and fear immediately engulfing the event:a claim was made that animals had been killed by the impact in the event a re-reimbursement claim could be made should this turn out to be an errant military munition or other big pocket liability claim. Subsequently the animal deaths were confirmed to have been several days before.AFAIR

So I guess the new moniker for this class could be "grave digger".

Elton


--- On Tue, 3/10/09, cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:

> From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and Hammers - CARANCAS
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, "Jeff Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au>, "Don Merchant" <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com>, "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 5:42 PM
> Don,
> Actually they never did figure out the source of the
> smell. My crew interviewed the land owner and she too
> testified that two of her animals had been killed by the
> impact of the blast. We did not think to photograph dead
> animals after four days of rotting but we did document on
> paper. The bull he mentions may have been one of hers. And
> again, this hit a human maintained spring used to water the
> animals and that is why it filled so quickly with water. Not
> hard to imagine animals were at their watering hole. And
> that aint no bull either.
> Carl Esparza
Received on Tue 10 Mar 2009 09:30:42 PM PDT