[meteorite-list] WG: Witnessed Falls and Hammers - warning, LONG.

[Martin Altmann]

Yes, certainly, in cut faces it looks like summer clouds on a ceiling of a
Bavarian baroque church.

But one needs fullslices to see the great net of shock veins best.



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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Gesendet: Montag, 9. März 2009 18:05
An: Martin Altmann
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Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] WG: Witnessed Falls and Hammers - warning,
LONG.



...and kunashak is among the most beautiful of OCs.


On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Martin Altmann wrote:


>

> Hmm,

> honestly I never was aware the last decades that this category  

> "hammer" had

> any meaning or importance.

> Of course Peekskill car, was a curiosity like Claxton. But people were

> buying Barwell, cause it was Barwell and Mbale, cause it was Mbale  

> and it

> was only a funny side note, that a pea hit the head of a boy and

> Kunashak...but Kunashak virtually nobody was buying :-)

> Also in the classical meteorite books you won't find any category:  

> hammers.

> So I'm astonished about that hype and that collectors suddenly since  

> 2-3

> years are paying triple to tenfold prices for the same falls than  

> all the

> decades before.

>

> Walter, Walter, what have you done :-)

>

> Best!

> Martin

>

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com

> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von

> mail at mhmeteorites.com

> Gesendet: Montag, 9. März 2009 17:19

> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and Hammers - warning,  

> LONG.

>

> I think to be considered a hammer the meteorite needs to hit a human- 

> made

> structure, like a building or car. Seems to me that many have taken  

> the term

> and bastardized it to the point where it has lost its true meaning and

> interest (at least to me).

> Matt

> Matt Morgan

> Mile High Meteorites

> http://www.mhmeteorites.com

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> Lakewood, CO 80215 USA

>

>

>

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