[meteorite-list] Pena Blanca Spring -Hammerstone?

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:07:14 -0700
Message-ID: <E27EA2D2-D78D-48CB-B0F7-8AAC64509982_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Couldn't agree more. A "hammer" does real damage, otherwise you are diluting the idea so far as to make it ridiculous.
Michael Farmer

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On Nov 22, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Impactika at aol.com wrote:

> I am sorry Michael,
>
> But how could Pena Blanca be called a hammer??????
> It struck WATER!!
>
> Anne M. Black
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> In a message dated 11/22/2011 12:52:45 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> mlblood at cox.net writes:
> Hi Phil & All,
>
> Phil's "Subject" box describes Blanca Spring as a "Near-Hammer,"
> But I had always heard it fell in a small pond people used as a swimming
> Hole, NOT in a man-made pool resulting from a dam for the express
> Purpose of creating such a swimming pool.
>
> I have swum in such a pool many times at the base of Mt. Lemon
> on property bordering the Sugaro National Forest Park (Not certain of
> the exact name of that park) in the Tucson area. My best friend lived
> On the property and there was clearly a constructed dam to hold water
> For swimming, but low enough to allow the water to continue to flow
> Beyond that by spilling over the dam during the monsoon season.
>
> To my way of thinking a constructed swimming pool is a constructed
> swimming pool regardless of the complexity of construction... A swimming
> pool (that results from construction) is quite different than earlier
> reports I had heard of merely a naturally occurring "swimming hole"
> where a pond lay on someone's property. Therefore, Pena Blanc Spring IS
> a hammer, having struck a man-made object (a man made swimming pool).
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 11/21/11 1:22 PM, "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Here's an interesting account of what could have been a multiple death
>> hammerstone incident:
>>
> http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM32/AM32_354.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
>
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