[meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog of Bethlehem

[Frank Cressy]

Hi Michael and all,

Probably impossibe.  TKW: 13 grams.  Main mass of 8 grams at State Museum of New York at Albany.  Has remained there intact for 150 years.

Cheers,

Frank


--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog of Bethlehem
> To: "Jeff Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au>, meteoritemall at yahoo.com, "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net>, "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, "Walter Branch" <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 4:04 AM
> Anyone know of anyone selling any Bthlehem, NY?
>         Cotact off list please - thanks, Michael
> 
> 
>

> >>
> >> ----- Original
> > Message ----- From: "Frank Cressy"
> >> <fcressy at prodigy.net>
> >> To:
> > <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
> >> <mexicodoug at aim.com>;
> > <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>;
> >> <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>;
> >>
> > <meteoritemall at yahoo.com>
> >> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:42 PM
> >>
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog in
> West
> >> Texas
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > > Hi Rubin and all,
> >> >
> >> > One hundred and fifty years ago, a stone fell
> > in
> >> Bethlehem, New York on August 11 that also
> involved a
> >> meteorite
> > finding dog, apparently not as well trained as the
> >> West, Texas dog.  C.U.
> > Shepard wrote:
> >> >
> >> >     ³Mr. Vanderpool was at work near his
> house,
> > and
> >> heard the explosion in common with other members
> of his
> >> family.
> > About two minutes after, as it appeared to him, a
> >> stone, coming in an
> > oblique course, struck the side
> >> > of a wagon house, glanced off, hit a log
> > upon the
> >> ground, bounded again, and rolled into the grass. 
> A dog
> >> lying
> > in the doorway of the wagon house sprang up, darted
> >> out and seized it, but
> > dropped it immediately, probably on
> >> account of its warmth and sulphurous
> > small.²
> >> >
> >> > And of course there's the story about the
> dog that
> >> found
> > the Lost City meteorite in January, 1970.  Must have
> >> been too heavy to
> > carry so he just "marked it",
> >> probably so he could find it again.  ;-)
> >>
> > >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > Frank
> >> >