[meteorite-list] The True Story of Ann Ho dges: Historyıs Only Meteorite Victim

From: Rob Wesel <nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:46:54 -0800
Message-ID: <ED952569D67A41ABB881B8CC7984FA99_at_RobOffice>

Am I missing something, didn't we just establish that the hammer was never
cut or cored and remains 100% intact in the Alabama Museum of Natural
History?

And that the one and only core (plus a slice) was taken from the Smithsonian
second mass?


Rob Wesel
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From: "Michael Blood via Meteorite-list"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 6:32 PM
To: "Shawn Alan" <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>; "Met. Frank Cressy"
<fcressy at prodigy.net>; "Meteorite List"
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The True Story of Ann Ho dges: History?s Only
Meteorite Victim

> I believe about 13 thin slices of the core - which are about the diameter
> of
> A quarter, but only about 60% as thick - total in the entire meteorite
> community. It is always far more expensive than the 2nd stone from the
> Smithsonian (which is not the hammer stone), due to higher desirability
> Combined with a far greater degree of rarity.
>
> Michael Blood
>
>
> On 1/18/15 12:42 PM, "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Frank and Listers
>
> And its the second stone that was donated to the
>> Smithsonian that is on
> the meteorite market from time to time. I wonder how
>> much of the first
> stone that hit Mrs. Hodges is available to collectors?
>>
>
> Shawn Alan
> IMCA 1633
> ebay store
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
> Website http://meteoritefalls.com
>>
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The
>> True Story of Ann Ho dges: History?s
>> Only Meteorite Victim
>> From: Frank
>> Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net>
>> Date: Sun, January 18, 2015 11:37 am
>> To:
>> Shawn Alan <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>, Meteorite Central
>>
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> The article
>> isn't clear where the stones are. The meteorite that hit Mrs. Hodges is
>> in
>> the Alabama Museum of Natural History. A second stone (3.75 kg) was
>> purchased
>> by Stuart Perry and donated to the Smithsonian.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:23 PM, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Listers
>>
>> I
>> wish I was a victim from a meteorite Lunar fall :)
>>
>> Enjoy the TRUe STORy
>>
>>
>> Shawn Alan
>> IMCA 1633
>> ebay store
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
>> Website http://meteoritefalls.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The True Story of Ann Hodges: History?s Only Meteorite Victim
>>
>> January 16, 2015
>> By First to Know
>>
>>
>> Getting hit by a falling meteor
>> is far more uncommon than getting struck
>> by lighting. How uncommon you might
>> ask?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> There is only one confirmed person in history to have ever
>> been hit by
>> one. And she had the evidence to prove it.
>>
>> Back in November
>> 1954, Ann Hodges was taking a nap in her Sylacauga,
>> Alabama, home when a
>> rock about 12 inches in circumference came crashing
>> through the ceiling. The
>> meteorite then collided with her thigh, leaving
>> behind a large, conspicuous
>> bruise. Thankfully, it didn?t smash into
>> her head, or the scene would have
>> been much more gruesome.
>>
>> When word got around about the meteor, the
>> entire town flocked to her
>> home. There were so many people curious to see
>> what happened that she
>> became extremely nervous and had to be taken to the
>> hospital. Because
>> she was a simple country woman, she wasn?t used to all the
>> attention.
>> It made her frenzied.
>>
>> The incident didn?t end there.
>>
>>
>> Despite a government geologist confirming that the object was, in fact,
>> a
>> meteorite, police confiscated it and requested the Air Force?s
>> verification.
>> Many people in the tiny town thought the smoke trails in
>> the sky and loud
>> explosion meant a plane had crashed, while others,
>> paranoid by the Cold War,
>> blamed the Soviets. The object needed some
>> clearing up.
>>
>> Once verified,
>> the only other thing left to do was figure out who the
>> rock belonged to. Of
>> course, Hodges believed it was rightfully hers to
>> keep.
>>
>> ?I feel like
>> the meteorite is mine,? she said, according to the
>> Alabama Museum of Natural
>> History. ?I think God intended it for me.
>> After all, it hit me!?
>>
>> But,
>> as luck would have it, she wasn?t the only person wanting to
>> stake a claim
>> for the space rock. Her landlady, Birdie Guy, wanted to
>> keep it for
>> herself.
>>
>> Guy found a lawyer and sued Hodges, alleging that it was hers
>> because it
>> landed on her property. Although the law was leaning in her
>> favor, the
>> community wasn?t too happy about that verdict. So, in exchange
>> for
>> $500, they settled out of court.
>>
>> Soon after, the woman and her
>> husband, Eugene, received an offer from
>> the Smithsonian for the rock, though
>> they turned it down < hoping to
>> score a better offer. An offer they?d never
>> get.
>>
>> No one approached them to purchase the controversial entity. In
>> 1956,
>> the Hodges wound up donating it to the museum. If you?re interested
>> in
>> checking it out, it?s still on display.
>>
>> The entire story is just a
>> little heartbreaking, especially when you
>> consider that Ann suffered a
>> nervous breakdown from the meteorite
>> hysterics.
>>
>> According to the
>> museum, ?she never did recover? from the frenzy
>> that followed that fateful
>> day.
>>
>> The couple later separated, and, in 1972, she went on to die of
>> kidney
>> failure in a nursing home.
>>
>> She ?wasn?t a person who sought out
>> the limelight. The Hodges were
>> just simple country people, and I really
>> think that all the attention
>> was her downfall,? explained museum director
>> Randy Mecredy.
>>
>> What makes this woman?s story so rare is that meteorites
>> typically
>> fall into the ocean or land somewhere desolate (not on top of a
>> woman
>> napping on her couch), according to Michael Reynolds, a Florida
>> State
>> College astronomer.
>>
>> ?Think of how many people have lived
>> throughout human history,?
>> Reynolds said. ?You have a better chance of
>> getting hit by a tornado
>> and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the
>> same time.?
>>
>> In the photo above, Moody Jacobs reveals her bruise from the
>> incident.
>>
>> Source:
>>
>> http://firsttoknow.com/true-story-ann-hodges-historys-meteorite-victim/
>>
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