[meteorite-list] Weston Hammer reference?

From: Monty Robson <mcrobson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:41:25 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <4466b0b8.1d4cc3.1375272d2ea.Webtop.44_at_charter.net>

Dear List,

      This morning Mal Bishop offered the following as a reference for
Weston being a ?hammer?: ?At least one stone hit a building during the
Weston Fall according to Nininger's, "Find A Falling Star" -- reference
the 1st page of Chapter One ( The Path Behind ), 3rd paragraph, last
sentence.?
     Mr. Bishop is correct, just as he says, Nininger does say ?A little
stone struck a nearby building and rolled away into the grass.?
      There is no question that Prof. Nininger made wonderful
contributions to meteoritics, including being a founder of what today is
the Meteoritical Society. But this is just another example of fiction
posing as fact in the literature of Weston.
      Nininger opens his autobiography with Weston and devotes the
entire first page (page 3) to the observations of ?a certain Judge
Wheeler?, but he does not document any of this. Nathan Wheeler was
Silliman and Kingsley?s star witness of the Weston event. If a piece had
fallen nearby Wheeler, would have read about it in their reports. Isaac
Bronson goes further and specifically says that Wheeler did not hear the
whizzing of the stones since he was so far from where any fell.
      I must conclude, in the absence of further documentation, that
Weston is not a ?hammer?.

Best regards,

Monty



On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Mal Bishop wrote:

> At least one stone hit a building during the Weston Fall according to
> Nininger's, "Find A Falling Star" -- reference the 1st page of
> Chapter One ( The Path Behind ), 3rd paragraph, last sentence.
>
> Mal
>
> On 5/15/2012 2:00 AM, Shawn Alan wrote:
>> I ment BENARES (a) :) as for Weston I love that stone cause its the
>> first meteorite fall in the new world and help put Yale and America
>> in the limelight of science in the international scene.
>> Shawn Alan
>> IMCA 1633
>> eBay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html?
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Frank Cressy<fcressy at prodigy.net>
>> To: Shawn Alan<photophlow at yahoo.com>; Meteorite
>> Central<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:46 AM
>> Subject: Weston
>>
>> Shawn,
>>
>> Please show me the reference that Weston hit some manmade object.
>> I've never
>> run across that and didn't see it in Silliman and Kingsley's report.
>> I think that it's on Michael Blood's site but believe he's in error.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Shawn Alan<photophlow at yahoo.com>
>> To: Meteorite Central<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Mon, May 14, 2012 10:05:57 PM
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>> Barbotan
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>>
>>
>> I am going to say my words and leave it at that on this Hammer Fall
>> Stone Fall
>> Hammer man made hitting meteorite definition....
>>
>> As for the Hammer Stone Fall phase, I guess I did morph it by
>> accident from
>> Michael Bloods phase which is Hammer Fall, for some reason I thought
>> he used
>> Hammer Stone Fall but I checked and its worded as Hammer Fall when a
>> stone from
>> the fall hits a man made object. The Sutter's Mill meteorite fall is
>> a Hammer
>> Fall because one of the stones from that fall hit a man made object.
>> That stone
>> that hit the man made object is called a Hammer Stone, and I can see
>> the
>> confusion and thats why I changed it to Hammer Fall. So by Michael's
>> definition
>> when a meteorite hits a man made object that meteorite fall is a
>> METEORITE
>> HAMMER FALL.
>>
>> Documented Hammer Falls
>> Sylacauge
>> Barbotan
>> L Aigle
>> Weston
>> Park Forest
>> Paltusk
>> Barwell
>> and now Sutter's Mill
>>
>> From Micheal's website
>>
>> 1). "Hammer" - any
>> individual which is part of a hammer
>> fall in which one or more of the
>> individuals struck an
>> artifact, animal or human.....
>> Most of us hammer heads, however,
>> will collect
>> what is available from any hammer fall, though, of course,
>> hammer stones, themselves,
>> will be most valued."
>>
>> Shawn Alan
>> IMCA 1633
>> eBay Store
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html?
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Received on Tue 15 May 2012 05:41:25 PM PDT