> I recall from reports at the time that some already dead and
> buried "Carcancas Carcasses" were
> excavated/exposed by/near the crater. Something else was
> mentioned during the fog of thought and fear immediately
> engulfing the event:a claim was made that animals had been
> killed by the impact in the event a re-reimbursement claim
> could be made should this turn out to be an errant military
> munition or other big pocket liability claim. Subsequently
> the animal deaths were confirmed to have been several days
> before.AFAIR
>
> So I guess the new moniker for this class could be
> "grave digger".
>
> Elton
>
>
> --- On Tue, 3/10/09, [email protected]
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and
> Hammers - CARANCAS
> > To: "Meteorite List"
> <[email protected]>, "Jeff
> Kuyken" <[email protected]>, "Don
> Merchant" <[email protected]>,
> "Michael Blood" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 5:42 PM
> > Don,
> > Actually they never did figure out the source of the
> > smell. My crew interviewed the land owner and she too
> > testified that two of her animals had been killed by
> the
> > impact of the blast. We did not think to photograph
> dead
> > animals after four days of rotting but we did document
> on
> > paper. The bull he mentions may have been one of hers.
> And
> > again, this hit a human maintained spring used to
> water the
> > animals and that is why it filled so quickly with
> water. Not
> > hard to imagine animals were at their watering hole.
> And
> > that aint no bull either.
> > Carl Esparza
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