Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

2007-01-22 Thread ensoramanda
Hi Michael, One more...the most recentMoss! Carbonaceous like Mokoia too. I think one of the African ones was supposed to have fallen through a tree near a child as I remember...cant remember exactly which tho. I quite liked Geralds suggestion of 'Axes' as opposed to 'Hammers' but Tree

Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

2007-01-22 Thread Michael L Blood
Hi Graham, It was a 3g Mbale which crashed through a banana tree before striking a kid, making it both a tree trimmer and a hammer. (That fall also struck village structures). See the blurb on this under 1992 at http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/Hammers.html Best wishes,

Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

2007-01-22 Thread McCartney Taylor
Don't forget Ivuna in Tanganyika. It was recovered from a tree by a german expat! 2 more peices were seen to hit the salt flat, the German drove a stake in the ground meaning to come back and look for them later. Regretably before he got returned to the site, WWII began and the British

Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

2007-01-21 Thread Michael L Blood
I can think of 3 of these tree trimmers, limb busters, branch breakers, arborites, sapsuckers, tree tilters, arbor-ate'ms, balsa bumpers, coniferous conkers, etc: 1) Sikhote-Aline 2) Mokoia 3) The grand daddy of them all, the yet to be identified Tunguska monster.

Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

2007-01-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:18:48 -0800, you wrote: I can think of 3 of these tree trimmers, limb busters, branch breakers, arborites, sapsuckers, tree tilters, arbor-ate'ms, balsa bumpers, coniferous conkers, etc: 1) Sikhote-Aline 2) Mokoia 3) The grand daddy of them all, the

Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

2007-01-21 Thread MARK BOSTICK
1) Sikhote-Aline 2) Mokoia 3) The grand daddy of them all, the yet to be identified Tunguska 4) Moss and 5) Park Forestsomeone was selling one that smacked a tree pretty good, had good photo documentation and a splinter on the meteorite if I remember right. Any others?

Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

2007-01-21 Thread Mike Bandli
] On Behalf Of MARK BOSTICK Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:59 PM To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers 1) Sikhote-Aline 2) Mokoia 3) The grand daddy of them all, the yet to be identified Tunguska 4) Moss and 5) Park Forestsomeone

Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers

2007-01-21 Thread Rob Wesel
- Original Message - From: MARK BOSTICK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tree trimmers 1) Sikhote-Aline 2) Mokoia 3) The grand daddy of them all, the yet to be identified Tunguska 4