[meteorite-list] Ship / boat hitters

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:49:20 -0800
Message-ID: <C1DA9B90.3255E%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Hi Sterling,
        There is at least one other:
November 17, 1981 Chiang-Khan (H5) Loei, Thailand FISHERMAN'S BOAT
A Thai fisherman gave the following account: at said time, he was fishing on
the Mekhong River to catch some fish for breakfast. He saw the "devil's
ball" coming from South, and soon it vanished with a mighty burst.
However, he had to seek shelter against the falling stones under a wool
blanket, as stones were falling in to his boat - enough that they filled
both his hands. Afterwards, he said, he had thrown "the ugly black stones",
which for sure meant no good, into the river.
        I have the best of these - though had to pay dearly.
        Would love some Tahara..... anyone???
        Michael

on 1/22/07 3:10 PM, Sterling K. Webb at sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> 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
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- 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
>
>

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