[meteorite-list] Thomas Jefferson on Meteorite

[Gerald Flaherty]

Like your reasoning Mark! Jerry
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From: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector at msn.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:59 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Thomas Jefferson on Meteorite


> Hello Al and Jeffrey,
>
> Thanks for the posting Jeffery.  This is a subject I was wondering about 
> last month and tried doing a little research into the manner.
>
> The transcript, Jeffrey provided, does show Jefferson questioned 
> meteorites.
>
> According to our folklore story, Jefferson had read about the Yale 
> professors verifiying the meteorites.  My research was spawned before of 
> newspaper articles.  I have found three Weston NPA's so far and all three 
> of them mention the Yale professors.
>
> All three newspapers are dated in January 1809.  Jefferson left office in 
> March 1809. So this would mean the conversation would have had to take 
> place while Jefferson was in the final months of his office, second term.
>
> I also seem to remember the conversation happened "at a dinner party".  I 
> could note here that after Jefferson left office, he did not attend many 
> dinners, but rather invited people to his famous home, Monticello.  (Which 
> some non-American might be interested in knowing, we sport this famous 
> building on the backs of our nickels...well not this or last year....but 
> thats another story).
>
> Jefferson was a proud southerner....or Virginian as it was.  It is not 
> that hard to imagine him using the term "Yankee", meaning a north-eastern 
> American.
>
> So, I am going to lean on the side that the conversation did happen, 
> although I completely recognize this could be just "folklore".  The letter 
> of Jefferson questioning meteorites pushes me a little in the "it did" or 
> "it might have" happened direction.
>
> Clear Skies,
> Mark Bostick
> Wichita, Kansas
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> www.kansasmeteoritesociety.com
>
>
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