[meteorite-list] Hammers and Thin-Sections

[Impactika at aol.com]

Hello Walter, and List members,
 
Walter, you will now find your great table of Hammer-Meteorites on the IMCA 
website, you will have to go to the "Met.Info." section,  then on the Menu, in 
the left column you will find a listing for "the Hammer page". It is a great 
page and I am sorry it took so long to get it back. I am told it is entirely 
due to a technical problem, so don't ask me for the details. And there are 
several other great pages from the old IMCA site that we have not been able to 
transfer yet for similar reasons. 
 
Now, for the thin-sections. The most common size seems to be 46mm x 27mm. 
Anyway that is the size used by the expert who makes all the thin-sections on my 
Catalog. But I always mail them in those little plastic boxes ( 55mm x 35mm x 
5mm thick) you see on Mike Jensen's site, so maybe boxes would have to be made 
to accomodate that size. I suppose it would depend on the collector's 
preference.  
 
And again Happy New Year to everybody.
 
Anne M. Black
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_IMPACTIKA at aol.com_ (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com) 
Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
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In a message dated 1/3/2009 11:36:20 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
waltbranch at bellsouth.net writes:
Hello Mike,

Greetings from a foggy night in Georgia!

I created a list a while back of meteorites that had struck human, animals 
and man-made objects (what I called HAMs - Michael Blood extended the term 
to "hammers").  I did it for fun and to demonstrate the relationship between 
falls and population density.  It used to be on the IMCA website but I don't 
it there anymore.  I included witnessed falls which I believed had a 
reliable and valid reference.   If you want a copy of the table, I believe I 
still have a copy and can email it to you.


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