[meteorite-list] Honolulu

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:10:50 -0600
Message-ID: <017401c73e7a$8f3f96f0$7c58e146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Tracy, Michael, List,

    I know of only one confirmed hit on a ship:

TAHARA (JAPAN) H5 1991
    "The meteorite was found on deck of the ship
M.S. Century-Highway No. 1, which was loading
cars in the T-3 berth on Toyota-pier at Toyohashi
harbour (Tahara district). When the crew came
back from lunch after 12:00, they found meteorite
fragments spread out from two impact dents in
the steel deck, the largest measuring 20 x 6.5 cm
and 3 cm depth, the smaller 17cm away from it.
>From the size of the impact dent the total weight
was estimated to more than 5kg, but most of it
was thrown into the ocean by the cleaning crew,
only about 1 kg are preserved. No sound was
heard accompanying the fall, but during car
loading it was very noisy."

    Keep that cleaning crew away from meteorites.
Send'em over to my house.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "tracy latimer" <daistiho at hotmail.com>
To: <mlblood at cox.net>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Honolulu


I reviewed the little I had regarding the Honolulu fall, and have to make a
retraction -- or maybe a redirection. Although my material cannot confirm
whether any fragments struck ships at anchor in the harbor, several did fall
on and around the mission house settlement by the harbor, one striking
"coral rock", which was commonly used for construction of walls and houses.
Before I could definitively say Honolulu was a hammer, I'd have to do more
research to confirm it, but it's not unlikely.

BTW, I think my statement came from misreading the original article in Aloha
Airline's inflight magazine; it said that sailors from the Russian frigate
Predpriatie took meteoric fragments back to Russia with them. I had thought
that meant they collected pieces that fell on the ship. Apparently they
instead collected them on the mission house grounds and brought them aboard.
  My small piece at least has that likely provenance!

Tracy Latimer


>From: Michael L Blood <mlblood at cox.net>
>To: tracy latimer <daistiho at hotmail.com>,Meteorite List
><meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Honolulu
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:17:38 -0800
>
>Tracy,
> I would love to add Honolulu to my list of hammers. Do you
>(or anyone else) know of ANY reference to any stones from this
>fall hitting a ship? If so, please provide the source.
> RSVP
> Thanks, Michael
>
>on 1/22/07 9:55 AM, tracy latimer at daistiho at hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > Honolulu -- might also count as a hammer,
> > since pieces fell in Honolulu harbor, and some (apocryphally) landed on
> > ships anchored there.
> >
> > Tracy Latimer
Received on Mon 22 Jan 2007 06:10:50 PM PST