Dear List,
This morning Mal Bishop offered the following as a reference for
Weston being a “hammer”: “At least one stone hit a building during the
Weston Fall according to Nininger's, "Find A Falling Star" -- reference
the 1st page of Chapter One ( The Path Behind ), 3rd paragraph, last
sentence.”
Mr. Bishop is correct, just as he says, Nininger does say “A little
stone struck a nearby building and rolled away into the grass.”
There is no question that Prof. Nininger made wonderful
contributions to meteoritics, including being a founder of what today is
the Meteoritical Society. But this is just another example of fiction
posing as fact in the literature of Weston.
Nininger opens his autobiography with Weston and devotes the
entire first page (page 3) to the observations of “a certain Judge
Wheeler”, but he does not document any of this. Nathan Wheeler was
Silliman and Kingsley’s star witness of the Weston event. If a piece had
fallen nearby Wheeler, would have read about it in their reports. Isaac
Bronson goes further and specifically says that Wheeler did not hear the
whizzing of the stones since he was so far from where any fell.
I must conclude, in the absence of further documentation, that
Weston is not a “hammer”.
Best regards,
Monty
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Mal Bishop wrote:
At least one stone hit a building during the Weston Fall according to
Nininger's, "Find A Falling Star" -- reference the 1st page of
Chapter One ( The Path Behind ), 3rd paragraph, last sentence.
Mal
On 5/15/2012 2:00 AM, Shawn Alan wrote:
I ment BENARES (a) :) as for Weston I love that stone cause its the
first meteorite fall in the new world and help put Yale and America
in the limelight of science in the international scene.
Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
eBay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html?
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Cressy<[email protected]>
To: Shawn Alan<[email protected]>; Meteorite
Central<[email protected]>
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:46 AM
Subject: Weston
Shawn,
Please show me the reference that Weston hit some manmade object.
I've never
run across that and didn't see it in Silliman and Kingsley's report.
I think that it's on Michael Blood's site but believe he's in error.
Thanks,
Frank
----- Original Message ----
From: Shawn Alan<[email protected]>
To: Meteorite Central<[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, May 14, 2012 10:05:57 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] AD: MURRAY, LA002 Mars meteorite, NWA2999,
Barbotan
man killer meteorite, LUCE', Forest City, Barwell& more meteorites
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I am going to say my words and leave it at that on this Hammer Fall
Stone Fall
Hammer man made hitting meteorite definition....
As for the Hammer Stone Fall phase, I guess I did morph it by
accident from
Michael Bloods phase which is Hammer Fall, for some reason I thought
he used
Hammer Stone Fall but I checked and its worded as Hammer Fall when a
stone from
the fall hits a man made object. The Sutter's Mill meteorite fall is
a Hammer
Fall because one of the stones from that fall hit a man made object.
That stone
that hit the man made object is called a Hammer Stone, and I can see
the
confusion and thats why I changed it to Hammer Fall. So by Michael's
definition
when a meteorite hits a man made object that meteorite fall is a
METEORITE
HAMMER FALL.
Documented Hammer Falls
Sylacauge
Barbotan
L Aigle
Weston
Park Forest
Paltusk
Barwell
and now Sutter's Mill
From Micheal's website
1). "Hammer" - any
individual which is part of a hammer
fall in which one or more of the
individuals struck an
artifact, animal or human.....
Most of us hammer heads, however,
will collect
what is available from any hammer fall, though, of course,
hammer stones, themselves,
will be most valued."
Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
eBay Store
http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html?
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