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

From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 05:43:07 -0800
Message-ID: <D0E39B6B.3EC42%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Actually, I have had some small pieces for sale for years. They are very
small but large enough to be seen by the naked eye. Cost some, but about
which of the rest of your collection can you say, "and this one hit that
lady in the photo?"

Near the bottom of this page:

http://michaelbloodmeteorites.com/Hammers1.html

Best regards, Michael




On 1/19/15 8:16 PM, "Michael Farmer" <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:

> Yes the hodges stone is safe in the museum. I think you are right, the core is
> from that stone. I think Robert Woolard wrote a great piece about it. I forgot
> that the King sale had a core. That material certainly not on the market
> these days.
>
>
> Michael Farmer
>
>> On Jan 19, 2015, at 9:12 PM, Rob Wesel via Meteorite-list
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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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