[meteorite-list] No Dogs Allowed - or are they?

[MARK BOSTICK]

Hello Kevin and list,

Kevin wrote, "Of course, this dog gone tale, as veteran readers of this list 
know, and
as detailed in an article in "Meteorite" back when it still had a "!", is
unsupported by evidence. More telling, no person clinging to the legend has 
published anything in
its support in the last five years. Certain ridicule is a powerful 
restraint."

Kevin, I guess since you are kind of taking a poll in that statement...and 
with light of the election day... I will go on the record as stating, "It is 
very possible the dog was killed by the fall of the Nakhla meteorite."

You comment, "unsupported by evidence" is somewhat misleading.

There are several pieces of evidence that show this may of happened.

The bolide did go over where the meteorite is suppose to have fell.

The farmer who who recovered the meteorite, GAVE it to the newspaper and no 
reward was mentioned.

The newspaper descibes the stone and in what appears to sound like the 
Nakhla meteorite.

Your main piece of evidence against this happening, is a TRANSLATION of the 
originial article, which states in so many words that the dog, "turned to 
ash."  I don't imagine you speak a second laugage Kevin?  I think any of us 
that do or has studied another laugage for any amount of time could easily 
see how the transcription could be worded wrong.

So did the Nakhla dog get hit with the meteorite? I don't know, but it 
seems, to me, there is more evidence to say it did or could have happened, 
then that it didn't.

Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticles.com