Yes, I saw that the email was mostly a joke, and congrats on the stone. But we must get this under control. A pile of dirt is nothing more than a pile of dirt. Carl seems to think that anything touched by man would make a meteorite a "hammer stone". This is a crock of crap, and while I ignored this discussion a couple of weeks ago, I can not sit back and watch my business go down the drain by trying to lump every stone as a hammer. I know of one hammer in West, a 124 gram stone hit a house, bounced off and landed in the yard. The homeowner picked it up and the stone has shingles embedded in it. I am still trying to buy the stone, but the owner has money and really has no interest in selling it. That is a hammer stone. It is the only hammer stone I know of from West, that is definitive.
We can not allow people to continue to demean meteorites by attempting to say that dirt roads and driveways make hammer stones. Smash a car, computer printer, rooftop, or cow and you have a hammer. An earthen dam while yes, scraped by man, is still just dirt. No damage could be done to it. A stone landing in the dirt 20 feet away but not on the dam is no different that a stone on the dam. Michael Farmer --- On Wed, 3/18/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 12:01 PM > In a message dated 3/18/2009 12:50:33 > P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] > writes: > > Um, I hope this is a joke, as far as calling it a > hammer. > > . > > Mike and all, > > While I will leave the interpretation of "hammer" up > to the beholder, the > post was indeed more of a joke, or double entendre > . But it did hit the dam. > And my "congrats" going out to my wife was not a > joke, that was sincere. > > I am NOT asking a premium on this rock above any of > the others I am selling, > just because it hit the dam. > > Although since it was found AFTER the heavy rains, I am > actually discounting > it below what I would be selling it for if it was picked up > earlier, as I am > with all the Post-rain recovery specimens. > > Steve > > **************Great Deals on Dell 15" Laptops - Starting at > $479 > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220433363x1201394532/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doub > leclick.net%2Fclk%3B212935224%3B34245239%3Bb) > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
