[meteorite-list] Dam Hammer

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:16:55 +0100
Message-ID: <007901c9a7fe$1c0aee60$177f2a59_at_name86d88d87e2>

"IMHO, the fault lies not in the use of the term, but the existance of it."
  
Darren, you hit the nail on the head -
You're a hammer!
Thank you for that.

Next step would be, to dissociate the "hammer"-concept from solely
meteorites and to extend it e.g. on hailstones, lightning strokes, birds,
airplanes, apples & pears, flower pots and roof tiles...and who says, that a
hammer as always to happen vertically?

and a new field of collecting is born. Hammer Collecting...
and then we can leave that kind of discussion to the expert collectors from
there and could later overtake their definitions.

Huh, here in Central-Europe most of the landscape, fields, meadows, forests
are shaped by men.... we have a huge potential of not yet revealed hammers
sitting in our cupboards.

Btw.
Are non-observed falls, so called "finds" also allowed to be called
"hammers" if they're found in the right place?



-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Darren
Garrison
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. M?rz 2009 20:14
An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:57:59 -0400, you wrote:

>Michael Blood has an opinion, not a rule. If a meteorite lands in my yard
or
>a baseball field does it qualify as a "hammer" since these places were man
>made? Over use of a term for marketing (not saying Steve had done this
here)
>is simply stupid!

IMHO, the fault lies not in the use of the term, but the existance of it.
The
fact that you can pick and choose which human created, human maintained
objects
(which would quickly fall into disrepair and soon after fall apart without
peirodic maintainance) qualify as "hammer worthy" and which don't are the
fault
of the ambiguity of the term, not of those using the term. Or else, someone
needs to compound an official, authoritative list of what an artifact needs
to
be built from before something hitting it can become a hammering. And the
shape
of the thing would have to be accounted for, too-- if a earthern dam doesn't
count, how about a mud-roofed hut somewhere?
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