[meteorite-list] The True Story of Ann Ho dges: History¹s Only Meteorite Victim

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:16:59 -0700
Message-ID: <0E04CA67-A0EE-4D9B-9E98-A84745EF3E2E_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Yes the hodges stone is safe in the museum. I think you are right, the core is from that stone. I think Robert Woolard wrote a great piece about it. I forgot that the King sale had a core. That material certainly not on the market these days.


Michael Farmer

> On Jan 19, 2015, at 9:12 PM, Rob Wesel via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you Frank
>
> I had always been under the impression that my core was from the bruiser. "None, not a gram" had me in doubt but the photos from M have resolved my fears.
>
> Rob
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 7:46 PM
> To: "Rob Wesel" <nakhladog at comcast.net>; "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>; "Shawn Alan" <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>; "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The True Story of Ann Ho dges: History?s Only Meteorite Victim
>
>> Rob, all,
>>
>> The "Hammer" stone in the Alabama Museum of Natural History was the stone that was cored. (Why would the Smithsonian core their stone after already slabbing it?)
>>
>>
>> Provenmire in the 2003 article "Sylacauga, Alabama Revisited" in METEORITE, vol. 9, no. 2 states this about the "Hodge's" stone: "An approximate 31 mm diameter core has been removed from the bottom of the object (34 mm deep) for internal examination and thin section analysis." He also includes a photo of the stone which shows the core hole.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> On Monday, January 19, 2015 6:47 PM, Rob Wesel via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I missing something, didn't we just establish that the hammer was never
>> cut or cored and remains 100% intact in the Alabama Museum of Natural
>> History?
>>
>> And that the one and only core (plus a slice) was taken from the Smithsonian
>> second mass?
>>
>>
>> Rob Wesel
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>> From: "Michael Blood via Meteorite-list"
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 6:32 PM
>> To: "Shawn Alan" <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>; "Met. Frank Cressy"
>> <fcressy at prodigy.net>; "Meteorite List"
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The True Story of Ann Ho dges: History?s Only
>> Meteorite Victim
>>
>>> I believe about 13 thin slices of the core - which are about the diameter
>>> of
>>> A quarter, but only about 60% as thick - total in the entire meteorite
>>> community. It is always far more expensive than the 2nd stone from the
>>> Smithsonian (which is not the hammer stone), due to higher desirability
>>> Combined with a far greater degree of rarity.
>>>
>>> Michael Blood
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/18/15 12:42 PM, "Meteorite List"
>>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Frank and Listers
>>>
>>> And its the second stone that was donated to the
>>>> Smithsonian that is on
>>> the meteorite market from time to time. I wonder how
>>>> much of the first
>>> stone that hit Mrs. Hodges is available to collectors?
>>>
>>> Shawn Alan
>>> IMCA 1633
>>> ebay store
>>>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
>>> Website http://meteoritefalls.com
>>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The
>>>> True Story of Ann Ho dges: History?s
>>>> Only Meteorite Victim
>>>> From: Frank
>>>> Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net>
>>>> Date: Sun, January 18, 2015 11:37 am
>>>> To:
>>>> Shawn Alan <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>, Meteorite Central
>>>>
>>>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The article
>>>> isn't clear where the stones are. The meteorite that hit Mrs. Hodges is
>>>> in
>>>> the Alabama Museum of Natural History. A second stone (3.75 kg) was
>>>> purchased
>>>> by Stuart Perry and donated to the Smithsonian.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:23 PM, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
>>>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello Listers
>>>>
>>>> I
>>>> wish I was a victim from a meteorite Lunar fall :)
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy the TRUe STORy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shawn Alan
>>>> IMCA 1633
>>>> ebay store
>>>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
>>>> Website http://meteoritefalls.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The True Story of Ann Hodges: History?s Only Meteorite Victim
>>>>
>>>> January 16, 2015
>>>> By First to Know
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Getting hit by a falling meteor
>>>> is far more uncommon than getting struck
>>>> by lighting. How uncommon you might
>>>> ask?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is only one confirmed person in history to have ever
>>>> been hit by
>>>> one. And she had the evidence to prove it.
>>>>
>>>> Back in November
>>>> 1954, Ann Hodges was taking a nap in her Sylacauga,
>>>> Alabama, home when a
>>>> rock about 12 inches in circumference came crashing
>>>> through the ceiling. The
>>>> meteorite then collided with her thigh, leaving
>>>> behind a large, conspicuous
>>>> bruise. Thankfully, it didn?t smash into
>>>> her head, or the scene would have
>>>> been much more gruesome.
>>>>
>>>> When word got around about the meteor, the
>>>> entire town flocked to her
>>>> home. There were so many people curious to see
>>>> what happened that she
>>>> became extremely nervous and had to be taken to the
>>>> hospital. Because
>>>> she was a simple country woman, she wasn?t used to all the
>>>> attention.
>>>> It made her frenzied.
>>>>
>>>> The incident didn?t end there.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Despite a government geologist confirming that the object was, in fact,
>>>> a
>>>> meteorite, police confiscated it and requested the Air Force?s
>>>> verification.
>>>> Many people in the tiny town thought the smoke trails in
>>>> the sky and loud
>>>> explosion meant a plane had crashed, while others,
>>>> paranoid by the Cold War,
>>>> blamed the Soviets. The object needed some
>>>> clearing up.
>>>>
>>>> Once verified,
>>>> the only other thing left to do was figure out who the
>>>> rock belonged to. Of
>>>> course, Hodges believed it was rightfully hers to
>>>> keep.
>>>>
>>>> ?I feel like
>>>> the meteorite is mine,? she said, according to the
>>>> Alabama Museum of Natural
>>>> History. ?I think God intended it for me.
>>>> After all, it hit me!?
>>>>
>>>> But,
>>>> as luck would have it, she wasn?t the only person wanting to
>>>> stake a claim
>>>> for the space rock. Her landlady, Birdie Guy, wanted to
>>>> keep it for
>>>> herself.
>>>>
>>>> Guy found a lawyer and sued Hodges, alleging that it was hers
>>>> because it
>>>> landed on her property. Although the law was leaning in her
>>>> favor, the
>>>> community wasn?t too happy about that verdict. So, in exchange
>>>> for
>>>> $500, they settled out of court.
>>>>
>>>> Soon after, the woman and her
>>>> husband, Eugene, received an offer from
>>>> the Smithsonian for the rock, though
>>>> they turned it down < hoping to
>>>> score a better offer. An offer they?d never
>>>> get.
>>>>
>>>> No one approached them to purchase the controversial entity. In
>>>> 1956,
>>>> the Hodges wound up donating it to the museum. If you?re interested
>>>> in
>>>> checking it out, it?s still on display.
>>>>
>>>> The entire story is just a
>>>> little heartbreaking, especially when you
>>>> consider that Ann suffered a
>>>> nervous breakdown from the meteorite
>>>> hysterics.
>>>>
>>>> According to the
>>>> museum, ?she never did recover? from the frenzy
>>>> that followed that fateful
>>>> day.
>>>>
>>>> The couple later separated, and, in 1972, she went on to die of
>>>> kidney
>>>> failure in a nursing home.
>>>>
>>>> She ?wasn?t a person who sought out
>>>> the limelight. The Hodges were
>>>> just simple country people, and I really
>>>> think that all the attention
>>>> was her downfall,? explained museum director
>>>> Randy Mecredy.
>>>>
>>>> What makes this woman?s story so rare is that meteorites
>>>> typically
>>>> fall into the ocean or land somewhere desolate (not on top of a
>>>> woman
>>>> napping on her couch), according to Michael Reynolds, a Florida
>>>> State
>>>> College astronomer.
>>>>
>>>> ?Think of how many people have lived
>>>> throughout human history,?
>>>> Reynolds said. ?You have a better chance of
>>>> getting hit by a tornado
>>>> and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the
>>>> same time.?
>>>>
>>>> In the photo above, Moody Jacobs reveals her bruise from the
>>>> incident.
>>>>
>>>> Source:
>>>>
>>>> http://firsttoknow.com/true-story-ann-hodges-historys-meteorite-victim/
>>>>
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