[meteorite-list] Dam Hammer

From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:56:59 -0700
Message-ID: <C5E6AE2B.1B1E%mlblood_at_cox.net>

" we must get this under control"
        What is this, Germany!?
        Get a grip!
        some say tomato some say tomato (guess they
Are spelled the same way.....
        Michael


> From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:16:04 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, Steve Arnold
> dealer/Qynne <MeteorHntr at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer
>
>
> Yes, I saw that the email was mostly a joke, and congrats on the stone.
>
> But we must get this under control. A pile of dirt is nothing more than a pile
> of dirt. Carl seems to think that anything touched by man would make a
> meteorite a "hammer stone". This is a crock of crap, and while I ignored this
> discussion a couple of weeks ago, I can not sit back and watch my business go
> down the drain by trying to lump every stone as a hammer. I know of one hammer
> in West, a 124 gram stone hit a house, bounced off and landed in the yard. The
> homeowner picked it up and the stone has shingles embedded in it. I am still
> trying to buy the stone, but the owner has money and really has no interest in
> selling it. That is a hammer stone. It is the only hammer stone I know of from
> West, that is definitive.
>
> We can not allow people to continue to demean meteorites by attempting to say
> that dirt roads and driveways make hammer stones.
> Smash a car, computer printer, rooftop, or cow and you have a hammer.
> An earthen dam while yes, scraped by man, is still just dirt. No damage could
> be done to it. A stone landing in the dirt 20 feet away but not on the dam is
> no different that a stone on the dam.
>
> Michael Farmer
>
> --- On Wed, 3/18/09, MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> From: MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr at aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer
>> To: meteoriteguy at yahoo.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 12:01 PM
>> In a message dated 3/18/2009 12:50:33
>> P.M. Central Daylight Time,?
>> meteoriteguy at yahoo.com
>> writes:
>>
>> Um, I hope this is a joke, as far as calling it a
>> hammer.?
>>
>> .
>>
>> Mike and all,
>>
>> While I will leave the interpretation of? "hammer" up
>> to the beholder, the
>> post was indeed more of a joke, or double? entendre
>> .? But it did hit the dam.?
>> And my "congrats" going out to my? wife was not a
>> joke, that was sincere.
>>
>> I am NOT asking a premium on this? rock above any of
>> the others I am selling,
>> just because it hit the dam.???
>>
>> Although since it was found AFTER the heavy rains, I am
>> actually? discounting
>> it below what I would be selling it for if it was picked up
>> earlier,? as I am
>> with all the Post-rain recovery specimens.?
>>
>> Steve
>>
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