[meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog of Bethlehem

From: Frank Cressy <fcressy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:51:16 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <363503.12000.qm_at_web80202.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Michael and all,

Probably impossibe. TKW: 13 grams. Main mass of 8 grams at State Museum of New York at Albany. Has remained there intact for 150 years.

Cheers,

Frank


--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog of Bethlehem
> To: "Jeff Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au>, meteoritemall at yahoo.com, "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net>, "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, "Walter Branch" <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 4:04 AM
> Anyone know of anyone selling any Bthlehem, NY?
> Cotact off list please - thanks, Michael
>
>
>

> >>
> >> ----- Original
> > Message ----- From: "Frank Cressy"
> >> <fcressy at prodigy.net>
> >> To:
> > <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
> >> <mexicodoug at aim.com>;
> > <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>;
> >> <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>;
> >>
> > <meteoritemall at yahoo.com>
> >> 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:
> >> >
> >> > ?Mr. 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.?
> >> >
> >> > 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
> >> >
Received on Tue 24 Feb 2009 09:51:16 AM PST


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