Anyone know of anyone selling any Bthlehem, NY?
Cotact off list please - thanks, Michael
On 2/24/09 12:15 AM, "Jeff Kuyken" wrote:
> To Rob? I think that's a pretty fitting home for the West Dog Meteortite to
>
go live with the Nakhla Dog! ;-)
Cheers,
Jeff
- Original Message
> -
From: "Ruben Garcia"
To: "Frank Cressy"
> ;
; "Walter Branch"
>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:15 PM
Subject:
> Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog in West Texas
> Hi all.
> I'm
> heading home in the morning with a bag full of meteorites. Ok, it's a
> small
> bag but I'm happy. I got 6 complete individuals and a fractured
> specimen.
> I interviewed some of the locals as well as hunters and should
> have at
> least a couple of good stories/videos!
>
> I'm not sure (nor is anyone else)
> why the dog decided to pick up the
> meteorite. However, the owners gladly
> wrote out a nice little story about
> how it happened and for everyone dying
> to know, the meteorite found by the
> dog was purchased by my friend Rob
> Wessel.
>
>
>
> Ruben Garcia
> Phoenix, Arizona
> Website:
> http://www.Mr-Meteorite.Net
> Articles: http://www.meteorite.com/blog/
>
> Videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=meteorfright&p=v
>
>
> ---
> On Sat, 2/21/09, Walter Branch wrote:
>
>> From:
> Walter Branch
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list]
> Meteorite Finding Dog in West Texas
>> To: "Frank Cressy"
> ,
>> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
>> Date:
> Saturday, February 21, 2009, 5:53 PM
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> Funny story. Thanks
> for sharing.
>>
>> BTW, I just re-read your article on in Meteorite on
>>
> Braunau. Interesting detective work.
>>
>> -Walter
>>
>> - Original
> Message - From: "Frank Cressy"
>>
>> To:
> ;
>> ;
> ;
>> ;
>>
>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:42 PM
>>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog in West
>> Texas
>>
>>
>>
> > Hi Rubin and all,
>> >
>> > One hundred and fifty years ago, a stone fell
> in
>> Bethlehem, New York on August 11 that also involved a
>> meteorite
> finding dog, apparently not as well trained as the
>> West, Texas dog. C.U.
> Shepard wrote:
>> >
>> > ³Mr. Vanderpool was at work near his house,
> and
>> heard the explosion in common with other members of his
>> family.
> About two minutes after, as it appeared to him, a
>> stone, coming in an
> oblique course, struck the side
>> > of a wagon house, glanced off, hit a log
> upon the
>> ground, bounded again, and rolled into the grass. A dog
>> lying
> in the doorway of the wagon house sprang up, darted
>> out and seized it, but
> dropped it immediately, probably on
>> account of its warmth and sulphurous
> small.²
>> >
>> > And of course there's the story about the dog that
>> found
> the Lost City meteorite in January, 1970. Must have
>> been too heavy to
> carry so he just "marked it",
>> probably so he could find it again. ;-)
>>
> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Frank
>> >
>> >
>> > --- On Sat, 2/21/09, Ruben
> Garcia
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Ruben Garcia
>
>> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog
> in
>> West Texas
>> > To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com,
>>
> mexicod...@aim.com, meteor...@meteorobs.org,
>> ensorama...@ntlworld.com
>> >
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 5:08 PM
>> >
>> > There is indeed a
> meteorite finding dog!
>> >
>> > Here's the story. On Friday Sonny, Steve
> Arnold
>> and I drove into the strewn
>> > field bright and early and
> immediately started
>> knocking on doors to try to gain
>> > permission to
> hunt. Upon walking up to a particular
>> house Sonny spotted a
>> > meteorite
> on the porch (about 70-90 grams) he picked
>> it up, and laid it back
>> >
> down. "Ruben, did you see that fully crusted
>> meteorite on the porch?"
>> >
> He Said. I couldn't believe it. He was right!
>> Right there on the porch
> but
>> > no one was home...what to do? Since Sonny assured me
>> that he
> wasn't going to
>> > buy meteorites when he could find them I decided to
>>
> track down the owner and try
>> > to buy the specimen.
>> >
>> > I got the
> owners work phone number from a neighbor and
>> called. After
>> > introducing
> myself and explaining what I was in town
>> for, I told the owner that
>> >
> there was a meteorite on their porch. "What, you
>> mean that black rock
> that
>> > the dog brought up and dropped on the porch?"
>> "Yes, that one"
> I
>> > said.
>> >
>> > Needless to say, I drove down and did a nice video
>>
> interview with the owner
>> > holding the space rock and recalling the
> tale.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ruben Garcia
>> > Phoenix, Arizona
>> > Website:
> http://www.Mr-Meteorite.Net
>> > Articles: http://www.meteorite.com/blog/
>> >
> Videos:
>> http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=meteorfright&p=v
>> >
>>
> >
>> > --- On Sat, 2/21/09, ensorama...@ntlworld.com
>>
>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> From:
> ensorama...@ntlworld.com
>>
>> >> Subject: Re:
> [meteorite-list] West, Texas
>> meteorite finds
>> >> To:
> Meteori
