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

[Göran Axelsson]

The same could be said about the meteorite "coins" that seems so 
popular. I'm a meteorite collector and a coin collector but all I see is 
a way to get big bucks for cheap material, close to a scam in my view.

... but that is of course my view and my view only.
Feel free to buy expensive meteorite "coins" with all of your hard 
earned cash, I will get my true meteorites cheaper with less competition.

  :-)

/Göran

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

>

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>

> 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

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