[meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and Hammers - CARANCAS

[Mr EMan]

> I recall from reports at the time that some already dead and
> buried "Carcancas Carcasses" were
> excavated/exposed by/near the crater.  Something else was
> mentioned during the fog of thought and fear immediately
> engulfing the event:a claim was made that animals had been
> killed by the impact in the event a re-reimbursement claim
> could be made should this turn out to be an errant military
> munition or other big pocket liability claim. Subsequently
> the animal deaths were confirmed to have been several days
> before.AFAIR
> 
> So I guess the new moniker for this class could be
> "grave digger".
> 
> Elton
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 3/10/09, cdtucson at cox.net
> <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net>
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed Falls and
> Hammers - CARANCAS
> > To: "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, "Jeff
> Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au>, "Don
> Merchant" <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com>,
> "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
> > Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 5:42 PM
> > Don,
> >  Actually they never did figure out the source of the
> > smell. My crew interviewed the land owner and she too
> > testified that two of her animals had been killed by
> the
> > impact  of the blast. We did not think to photograph
> dead
> > animals after four days of rotting but we did document
> on
> > paper. The bull he mentions may have been one of hers.
> And
> > again, this hit a human maintained spring used to
> water the
> > animals and that is why it filled so quickly with
> water. Not
> > hard to imagine animals were at their watering hole.
> And
> > that aint no bull either.
> > Carl Esparza