I have 3 type of photos on books of Nogata, unfortunately its visible the matrix of the book paper.
Matteo --- Michael L Blood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi Peter, > The only image I have seen of it was in a > video about meteorites. > For those in the peanut gallery, it is the stone > that fell May 19, 861ad. > in Nogata, Japan, crashing through the roof of a > monastery of Buddhist > monks. It is the oldest documented hammer I know of. > I believe not one > single mg has ever been made available to any one or > any institution. It > is highly revered by the monks, supposedly because > it is considered to > have fallen from heaven. (Such reported beliefs are > often ethnocentrically > biased and/or involve misinterpretations in > translation - so, who can say > how/what the monks REALLY think of it) - in any > event, it is highly > regarded and absolutely none of the material has > ever been available). > In the video, a monk brought out the box in > which it is kept and > the video was quite clear, as the interviewer and > the monk were outside > in the courtyard. It was larger than a golf ball but > smaller than a > baseball. > If you do discover a still photo of it, I > would much appreciate if > you let me know of it, as I am working on a book > about hammers. Right > now all I have depictions of are mostly the 40 or 45 > I have for sale. As > rare as some of them are, I would say Nogata takes > the cake, as it is > TOTALLY unavailable. > Good luck, Michael > > on 1/7/07 5:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I hope someone can help me. I am looking for a > photo of the Nogata > > Meteorite that I can use in a powerpoint > presentation. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Peter Scherff > > ______________________________________________ > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > -- > It is difficult to get a man to understand something > if his > salary depends on him not understanding it. > - Upton Sinclair > -- > What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. > It is what we know for sure that just ain't so. > - Josh Billings (but oft credited to Mark Twain) > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30173 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.it Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info MSN Messanger: spacerocks at hotmail.com EBAY.COM:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mcomemeteorite/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo spam e ti da tanto spazio gratuito per i tuoi file e i messaggi http://mail.yahoo.it ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
