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

[ensoramanda at ntlworld.com]

Hi Michael,

Check out Jeff's website here...excellent. The Sikhote video should be right up your street. Set aside 18 minutes and go back in time.  I like to think that I might have the piece of shrapnel that went straight through the huge tree that one guy illustrates by by poking a stick right through....who knows. ;-)

Graham Ensor, UK.


---- Michael Bross <element33 at peconic.net> wrote: 

> Hello Listers

> 

> Personally, I would love the Sikhote-Alin one which struck a Cedar tree...

> It would combine 2 passions: trees and the new one, meteorites.

> Just dreaming :) (if even available, it must be so much $$$...)

> 

> Good evening everyone

> Michael B

> 

> PS: thanks for your website Michael Blood, I learned a lot thru it cf 

> Historic meteorites etc...

> 

> 

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

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

> To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>; "Meteorite List" 

> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:03 PM

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and Hammers - warning, LONG.

> 

> 

> Hi Martin and all,

>         In my upcoming book, I will be addressing this issue

> At length. However, the condensed version is: "A man

> Made artifact, animal or human" leaves itself open when

> It comes to streets - and even more controversial, dirt

> Roads.

>         It is a "personal" line one has to draw for one's self,

> And not always an easy one. I struggled with a meteorite

> That struck a cultivated fruit tree and if a meteorite

> Were to cause a significant pit in an ancient, rock Roman

> Road, would THAT make it a hammer?

>         There really isn't a definitive answer to such questions.

> They are, rather, matters of opinion.

>         Michael Gilmer recently asked how many hammers

> Other collectors have.... I believe my collection is currently

> Only about 64. However, even when comparing hammer

> Collections there is a big variation in coparisons. If someone

> Has 75 hammers, but they are all tiny, thumbnails and

> Most of mine are rather large macromounts, which collection

> Is the "largest?" Then, I know a good number of people who

> Have REALLY nice sized hammers of full slices or whole stones

> several hundreds of grams each, whereas mine might average

> Closer to 5 grams each - mostly part slices. (Like so many

> Of us, my collection is influenced strongly by what I can afford).

> I do have a full slice of Kunashack and a fist sized hammer

> Stone that was part of the original report found on a roof in

> Thuathe, but they have to go if someone offers to buy them

> because my income Does not support a huge collection of $2,500

> to $5,000 each per specimen (and I would certainly like to end

> up with a HUGE hammer collection. I would like to have a specimen

> Of every known hammer fall - actual hammer stones, each, but

> Such is, for all practical purposes, impossible...)

>         Then, again, some specimens cannot be

> Had in larger sizes regardless of financiers, such as St. Louis,

> Wethersfield '71 - and my Sylacauga would have to be

> Considered "huge" even though it is an ultra thin quarter sized

> Part slice - because it just cannot be had larger.

>         So, what is a hammer? Again, that is a question everyone

> Will answer for themselves.

>         Best wishes, Michael

> 

> 

> 

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