[meteorite-list] Hammer Definitions

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:49:17 -0500
Message-ID: <mr8ds4duoj20nr9go3tdm26a97njlbvlep_at_4ax.com>

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:22:21 -0600, you wrote:

>Ok, then I'm glad I didn't start collecting "hammers" because that should
>dramatically increase the "hammer" count out there. :-) So West is
>definitely a hammer because it fell on farmland.

Okay, even I don't actually claim that hitting a mowed lawn makes a meteorite a
hammer-- but a mowed lawn is an artifact.

Someone mentioned a few days back, IIRC, that a meteorite landing on a golf
course wouldn't make it a hammer. But I'm willing to bet if they found one
inside one of the 18 holes, they'd be suddenly rethinking the use of that term.
:-)


>
>Bob
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Darren
>Garrison
>Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:41 PM
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>On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:35:29 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Is a baseball field a human artifact? The bases on the field are, so are
>>the bleachers, chalk lines on the field, etc, but is the grass and dirt?
>If
>>the grass and dirt are, then so are all of the house lawns across the world
>>since humans planted or landscaped them.
>
>Yes, every place kept with a cover of grass which would, when left to
>nature,
>revert to forest in just a few years is an artificially maintained,
>unnatural
>human artifact.
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