[meteorite-list] Honolulu and Lillaverke

From: Dave Freeman mjwy <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:36:07 -0700
Message-ID: <45B63977.3090301_at_fascination.com>

Dear Tracy, Bernd, and List;
 From Oahu to Moloki and the Channel is a very large area. Being of
watery origin, I am surprized any fell anywhere it didn't get wet.
Leper
Dave F.

bernd.pauli at paulinet.de wrote:

>Tracy wrote:
>
>"I had thought that meant they collected pieces that fell on the ship."
>
>Michael Blood wrote:
>
>"Do you or anyone else know of ANY reference..."
>
>
>Hello All,
>
>Here what I can offer:
>
>American Journal of Science and Arts. Vol. 49, Oct 1845:
>
>Particulars of the fall of Meteorites in the Sandwich Islands; communicated by request,
>by the Rev. Hiram Bingham, missionary in those Islands, in a letter dated Boston, May 1, 1845.
>
>To Prof. Silliman--On the 27th of September, 1825, a shower of meteoric stones fell, partly
>in the channel between Molokai and Lanai, and partly between those islands and Oahu, and
>partly at Honolulu, where I then resided. One explosion was heard at Lahaina, and several in
>quick succession at Honolulu, eighty miles to the northwest, between the hours of 10 and 11,
>A.M. The fragment that was seen to pass Lahaina towards Oahu fell in the Molokai Channel,
>and threw a mass of water into the air, and was said to be followed by a rumbling sound. The
>Rev. Mr. Richards of Lahaina mistook the report of the explosion for that of cannon on board
>of some ship. The explosions which I heard at Honolulu led me at first to suppose they were
>cannon on board of ships not far distant. But soon after I was satisfied that they were meteoric.
>Very soon the servants of Kalanimoku, secretary of state, brought me the fragment which they
>affirmed had just fallen from the sky in our village. This fragment I carefully preserved and
>brought over, and had the pleasure of presenting to you. A different pleasure from that with
>which Mr. Richards and myself picked up and forwarded to the Missionary Museum in Pemberton
>Square, Boston, a cannon ball--one of several which had been fired at our heads.
>
>
>As for Lillaverke, maybe one of our Swedish list members can look into this:
>
>WICKMAN F.E. (1993) Eight pound ball fell on the ship and killed two boatsmen
>(Swedish Geol. J. 115, 29-298).
>
>I don't know where I or someone else found this reference and whether "ball" is the
>correct word in the Swedish version of that paper.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Bernd
>
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