[meteorite-list] DOCUMENTED Human strikes - Listeners Correct Auctioneer About Meteorite History

From: Mark Ford <mark.ford_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:48:03 +0100
Message-ID: <29A9DB45B84970458190D7D39BD42C49606A2B_at_gamma.ssl.atw>

Add me to the list too :) - I was clearing a book shelf a couple of weeks ago ,and a 306g NWA fell on my head! (I was using it as a book end!) these things hurt I tell you - I can't imagine what it would feel like to be hit by one doing terminal velocity! .. 3 ft was bad enough.


Mark




-----Original Message-----
From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Michael Blood
Sent: 14 May 2009 12:49
To: Darryl Pitt
Cc: Paul; Meteorite List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOCUMENTED Human strikes - Listeners Correct Auctioneer About Meteorite History

Right you are,
        Michael


> From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 07:34:37 -0400
> To: Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net>
> Cc: Paul <bristolia at yahoo.com>, Meteorite List
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOCUMENTED Human strikes - Listeners Correct
> Auctioneer About Meteorite History
>
>
>
>
> Add Thailand's Chiang Khan to the list. A fisherman was struck as
> reported in the original abstract.
>
> By the way, an absolutely superlative Chiang Khan specimen is being
> offered in this weekend's auction at Heritage. It's so
> extraordinarily well oriented it looks like an australite (flanged
> button tektite) without the flange.
>
> Check this out....
>
> http://historical.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=6016&Lot_No=41195
>
>
>
>
> On May 13, 2009, at 11:41 PM, Michael Blood wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>> I can think of at least 3 off the top of my head. Of course,
>> Some people have strange Ideas about what "documented"
>> means:
>> 1) The obvious: Sylacauga with a photo of the "victime"
>> Next to a medical Dr.
>> 2) Mbali: a boy was struck in the arm after a small stone passed
>> Through a banana tree (slowing it down to a "safe" speed)
>> 3) L'Aigle: A coachman was struck(among other things) in this
>> Thoroughly investigated fall.
>> Best wishes, Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ?There were many letters in response to an interview about
>> the auction of
>>> the Garza Stone, a meteorite that hit a house
>> in Park Forest, Ill., in 2003.
>>> Listeners were quick to point
>> out that < contrary to what the organizer of
>>> this auction
>> suggested < there is at least one documented case of a
>>>
>> personbeing hit by a falling rock from outer space.?
>>
>>
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