[meteorite-list] Details on Mbale

[Regine Petersen]

Thanks Marco & Bernd, is it the portrait on the left you're talking about or is there another image?

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dmsweb/meteorites/mbale/mbale.html

R.

--- Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl> schrieb am Mo, 6.12.2010:

> Von: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Details on Mbale
> An: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Datum: Montag, 6. Dezember, 2010 23:09 Uhr
> > Thanks Al, I have the article
> now.
> > 
> > I did some research on the boy some time ago,
> unfortunately there are no documented details on who he
> was.
> 
> Back in 1992 I did see a video of the field interview with
> the boy (through an interpreter) made by Hans Betlem, who
> did te field research at Mbale.
> 
> At the time I already said to Hans: "you should have
> recorded more personal details!". Historical details like
> this just survive better with a name attached to it.
> Everybody remembers the name "Ann Hodges", 56 years after
> date. This while "some 12-14 year old boy at Mbale" will
> quickly (and undeservedly) gain the label "apocryphal" as
> time will progress, I am affraid
> 
> There is a photograph of the boy in the MAPS article on
> Mbale.
> 
> - Marco
> 
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> 
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