[meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog of Bethlehem

From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:42:02 -0800
Message-ID: <C5C99B9A.DBE%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Hay,
        That's still 5g in the civilian sector...... Anyone EVER
Seen any available???
        Contact me off list.
        Thanks, Michael


On 2/24/09 6:51 AM, "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net> wrote:

> 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 03:42:02 PM PST