[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 20:12:12 -0800
Message-ID: <481AC96FAB30489AB8C94250D555C13F_at_RobOffice>

Thank you Frank

I had always been under the impression that my core was from the bruiser.
"None, not a gram" had me in doubt but the photos from M have resolved my
fears.

Rob


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From: "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 7:46 PM
To: "Rob Wesel" <nakhladog at comcast.net>; "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>;
"Shawn Alan" <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The True Story of Ann Ho dges: History?s Only
Meteorite Victim

> Rob, all,
>
> The "Hammer" stone in the Alabama Museum of Natural History was the stone
> that was cored. (Why would the Smithsonian core their stone after already
> slabbing it?)
>
>
> Provenmire in the 2003 article "Sylacauga, Alabama Revisited" in
> METEORITE, vol. 9, no. 2 states this about the "Hodge's" stone: "An
> approximate 31 mm diameter core has been removed from the bottom of the
> object (34 mm deep) for internal examination and thin section analysis."
> He also includes a photo of the stone which shows the core hole.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank
>
> On Monday, January 19, 2015 6:47 PM, Rob Wesel via Meteorite-list
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> 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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