AW: [meteorite-list] Lost Opportunities, Onions & Hailstones

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat May 20 15:13:53 2006
Message-ID: <2hqu629laguj2sjajkaqs20clh21k0n05k_at_4ax.com>

On Sat, 20 May 2006 16:26:32 +0200, you wrote:

>In 1983 we had an astonishing hail storm here in Munich.
>Hailstones were egg to fist-sized, they fell from sky, they destroyed
>thousands of windows and damaged thousands of cars,
>so you may take it for a historical event and to the hailstones you could
>ascribe a cultural and national meaning.
>And of course perhaps some meteorologists may see a certain scientific
>relevance in them.
>Some people stored some grains for a while in their iceboxes until the next
>cleaning, though practically all hailstones melted away in the streets
>within a few hours.

I just experenced a fresh fall about half an hour ago! Sadly, apparenlty the
entire strewn-field melted away, so nobody bother asking about shipping rates.
:-(

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Received on Sat 20 May 2006 03:16:00 PM PDT