[meteorite-list] Hammer Question

From: Richard Kowalski <*damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <971560.75803.qm_at_web113618.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> · damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com

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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Hammer Question
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 12:45 PM
> Hello Listers,
> 
> This is a very interesting question I asked and its fun to
> see what people on the list think what makes a meteorite
> fall a hammer fall or not based on value or what it hits.
> From what I can tell is when fragments from a meteorite fall
> hit a man made object the meteorite fall is called a Hammer
> Fall. Good example, Park Forest meteorite fall/hammer fall.
> Not all stones hit a man made object but the ones that did,
> are called hammer stones and that's why the? meteorite
> fall is referred to as a Hammer Fall.
> 
> Wouldn't it be cool if a meteorite landed on one of the
> Meteorite Mens driveway on their birth day.... I wonder how
> much that would go for?
> 
> Shawn Alan
> IMCA 1633
> eBaystore
> http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
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> [meteorite-list] Hammer Question
> Richard Kowalski damoclid at yahoo.com 
> Wed Jun 16 14:10:16 EDT 2010 
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> Hey Eric, 
> 
> I think you and I are looking at this question coming from
> rather different directions. 
> 
> Your post is about valuation of hammers, and my post is
> about a definition, a subject which you kind of give short
> shrift to by saying we could get too "anal"ytical about. 
> 
> To me, the thing that gets hammered, is irrelevant if the
> definition is so broad as to be nearly meaningless. To also
> include all the stones in a fall as part of a "hammer fall"
> seems ridiculously broad, to me that is. 100,000 stones
> fall, but a single 1g frag bounces against barn, so all the
> other 99,999 have been made "more special" in some way? 
> 
> If that's what some collectors believe, that's fine with
> me. Again, that isn't my area of collecting. 
> 
> I agree it is up to the collector to place a value on the
> hammer, depending on what object was struck, where it was
> located, and the story and or media coverage about the
> strike, but that is a different topic. One of valuation, not
> the definition of what a hammer is. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard Kowalski 
> Full Moon Photography 
> IMCA #1081are hammers. That to me is not 
> 
> > really a question. 
> 
> > 
> 
> > The question is how much more is a hammer stone
> "worth" if 
> 
> > it hit a shed (regardless of building materials)
> versus it 
> 
> > hitting a dirt road or even a paved road. Colletors 
> 
> > will probably not care much if it hits a road unless
> there's 
> 
> > history surrounding it. Now, if the hammer in question
> hits 
> 
> > a mailbox, then it's probably "worth" what someone
> will pay 
> 
> > for it. Simple. 
> 
> > 
> 
> > It would be up to the dealer who sells the meteorite
> as a 
> 
> > hammer as long as he/she explains what the "hammer
> stone" 
> 
> > impacted and the circumstances surrounding it, and
> then only 
> 
> > if the the dealer is honest with the collector/buyer,
> and 
> 
> > the collector/buyer chooses to spend more on it
> because it 
> 
> > hit something man-made would it be worth more. 
> 
> > 
> 
> > If being a hammer stone means a meteorite was worth
> less no 
> 
> > one would care what constitutes a hammer. 
> 
> > 
> 
> > The valuation is the degree of perceived importance. 
> 
> > 
> 
> > Regards, 
> 
> > Eric Wichman 
> 
> > Meteorites USA 
> 
> > www.meteoritesusa.com 
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > On 6/15/2010 11:52 PM, Shawn Alan wrote: 
> 
> > > Hello Listers, 
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > Now I have a good question about hammer meteorite
> 
> 
> > falls. It is said that a meteorite fall is a hammer
> fall if 
> 
> > it hits something that is man made. Now if a meteorite
> lands 
> 
> > on the surface of a serviced dirt road, a road made by
> man 
> 
> > from dirt, rocks, oil to coat the road, or other
> processes 
> 
> > to maintain the dirt road, wouldn't that constitute as
> being 
> 
> > a hammer fall? 
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > Shawn Alan 
> 
> > > IMCA 1633 
> 
> > > eBaystore 
> 
> > > http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
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