[meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog of Bethlehem

[Michael Blood]

Hay,
        That's still 5g in the civilian sector...... Anyone EVER
Seen any available???
        Contact me off list.
        Thanks, Michael


On 2/24/09 6:51 AM, "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net> wrote:


> Hi Michael and all,

> 

> Probably impossibe.  TKW: 13 grams.  Main mass of 8 grams at State Museum of

> New York at Albany.  Has remained there intact for 150 years.

> 

> Cheers,

> 

> Frank

> 

> 

> --- On Tue, 2/24/09, Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net> wrote:

> 

>> From: Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net>

>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog of Bethlehem

>> To: "Jeff Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au>, meteoritemall at yahoo.com, "Frank

>> Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net>, "Meteorite List"

>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, "Walter Branch"

>> <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>

>> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 4:04 AM

>> Anyone know of anyone selling any Bthlehem, NY?

>>         Cotact off list please - thanks, Michael

>> 

>> 

>> 

> 

>>>> 

>>>> ----- Original

>>> Message ----- From: "Frank Cressy"

>>>> <fcressy at prodigy.net>

>>>> To:

>>> <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;

>>>> <mexicodoug at aim.com>;

>>> <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>;

>>>> <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>;

>>>> 

>>> <meteoritemall at yahoo.com>

>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:42 PM

>>>> 

>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog in

>> West

>>>> Texas

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> Hi Rubin and all,

>>>>> 

>>>>> One hundred and fifty years ago, a stone fell

>>> in

>>>> Bethlehem, New York on August 11 that also

>> involved a

>>>> meteorite

>>> finding dog, apparently not as well trained as the

>>>> West, Texas dog.  C.U.

>>> Shepard wrote:

>>>>> 

>>>>>     ³Mr. Vanderpool was at work near his

>> house,

>>> and

>>>> heard the explosion in common with other members

>> of his

>>>> family.

>>> About two minutes after, as it appeared to him, a

>>>> stone, coming in an

>>> oblique course, struck the side

>>>>> of a wagon house, glanced off, hit a log

>>> upon the

>>>> ground, bounded again, and rolled into the grass.

>> A dog

>>>> lying

>>> in the doorway of the wagon house sprang up, darted

>>>> out and seized it, but

>>> dropped it immediately, probably on

>>>> account of its warmth and sulphurous

>>> small.²

>>>>> 

>>>>> And of course there's the story about the

>> dog that

>>>> found

>>> the Lost City meteorite in January, 1970.  Must have

>>>> been too heavy to

>>> carry so he just "marked it",

>>>> probably so he could find it again.  ;-)

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>>> Cheers,

>>>>> 

>>>>> Frank

>>>>> 

>