Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-22 Thread bill kies
Subject: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated) Hello All, For those who keep track of such things, I stumbled across an account of a meteorite having fallen and killed a pig: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1939JRASC..33...51M (scroll to bottom) I looked in vain

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-22 Thread Carl 's
A stone meteorite fell into one of the villages of the Tara district. The fall was accompanied by detonations, while the sky was clear. It killed a pig. It was carried off by a vagabond sorcerer, some of whom were still existing at that time. Bill wrote: Talk about being in the right place

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-22 Thread Jason Utas
Hello Daniel, Definitely -- I find that the Harvard adsabs site is a great source of older papers. I'm glad you made a lower offer on it; every single one of those books is available for free viewing and download on Google Books. A few dollars for the convenience of having them on a CD is fine,

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-22 Thread bill kies
: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated) A stone meteorite fell into one of the villages of the Tara district. The fall was accompanied by detonations, while the sky was clear. It killed a pig. It was carried off by a vagabond sorcerer, some of whom were still existing at that time. Bill

[meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-21 Thread jason utas
Hello All, For those who keep track of such things, I stumbled across an account of a meteorite having fallen and killed a pig: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1939JRASC..33...51M (scroll to bottom) I looked in vain for the reference [E. Endukova, 1929], but it does not appear to exist online.

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-21 Thread Dan Furlan
Hey Jason if you like reading old articles and books about meteorites you might be interested in this item on ebay: 130343554207 i offered the guy 3 bucks and he accepted it.. thought maybe you would be interested since the article you posted is almost 100 years old and its interesting how they

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-21 Thread Dan Furlan
Jason, dang i wish i had thought of that would of saved 3 bucks LOL but if those books are available for free on google books then by all means i would suggest copying the titles from the listing and downloading them for free, that will save list members a few bucks that they can put towards