[meteorite-list] 8th Aniversary

Michael Blood mlblood at cox.net
Sat Mar 26 23:03:04 EDT 2011 

I hope to have it out NEXT WEEK!
        It will be over 300 pages and will be in a
Non-transferable PDF file (I think you can "share"
It within your own system, so, yes, Ipad, Kindel, what have
You - computer, of course. Some may even want to print it.
        Cost will be $18.95, but on sale to list members at $14
(free delivery, of course)
        I have been amazed at some of the "history in my articles
As I have edited and re-edited them (for spelling, continuity of
Font size, etc). The oldest of them are pure scanned articles from
The very old VOYAGE! Magazine.
        It will have a color cover and back page and have active links
to on line photos. 
        It is turning out much, much better than I had hoped - and as
Always, far, far more work and time demanded in producing it.
        I will announce it to the list SOON.
        Thanks, Michael
PS: Rob, "Nakhla Dog" Wesel did the "book" photo for me, being the
Very generous Photoshop wizard that he is.


On 3/26/11 7:19 PM, "Ed Deckert" <edeckert at triad.rr.com> wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> Thank you for sharing this article with us.  Would you mind also sharing
> some more of the details regarding your new book?  Can it be read with a
> Kindle or Nook?  Approximate release date?  Cost?  Inquiring minds will
> certainly want to know!
> 
> Best,
> Ed
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 8th Aniversary
> 
> 
> In Memory of what is the most significant hammer fall in written history
> (With more documented specific items struck than any other)
> Please see the article below from a few pages of my soon to be released
> Book well over 300 pages long, in eBook format:
> 
> METEORITE MARKET TRENDS 1997 through 2010.
> 
> 
>        METEORITE MARKET TRENDS
>        by Michael Blood
>        May 2003
> 
> Park Forrest.
> 
> This L5 Impact Melt Breccia dominated the meteorite market in April 2003.
> Falling in the late, late evening of March 26th in a the suburb of Chicago
> known as Park Forest, and extending into a few neighboring areas, this fall
> generated meteorite madness like no other before it.
> 
> The list was abuzz with postings by Steve Arnold of Chicago ­ with something
> to sayS. his home town, Chicago, had been pelted with meteorites the night
> before. And pelted is a good description, as these specimens bashed the hell
> out of several structures and  dug themselves deep into lawns and shattered
> upon impacting the streets. The word "fall" does not describe the velocity
> required for the impact force of these meteorites.
> 
> Within 24 hrs, meteorite dealers had descended in number upon the locale of
> the fall. Within 2 days the place was crawling with meteorite dealers,
> collectors, hunters.
> 
> Now, make no mistake, this meteorite is a significant fall by virtue of its
> typology, alone, being an impact melt L5! When's the last time you ran into
> one of those? Does Cat Mountain ring a bell?
> 
> As if that weren't enough, then try the fact that no other meteorite I am
> aware of has  "hammered" so many man made structures in the last two
> centuries, including, but not limited to homes, cars, tow trucks, baseball
> stands and park playground equipment ­ and those are just some of the
> ones verified with affidavits.
> 
> Now, to top it all off, imagine half the Tucson contingent falling upon this
> neighborhood  and running amok for well over a week, wheeling, dealing and,
> in some cases, outbidding one another to get their hands on the stuff. As if
> that weren't enough, the police followed up issuing these comments:
> 
> Park Forest Police Chief Robert G. Maeyama said Friday. "We're advising
> people not to be in a big hurry to sell them. Take a step back and consider
> that these are very special objects, and don't take an offer from people who
> are trying to buy anything and everything for very little money." (Chicago
> Tribune, 3-29-03)
> 
> But, it doesn't end there folksS. then you get local gangs who start ripping
> off younger kids who have found stones, you get people finding specimens,
> realizing more is being  paid if they hit something, so, they start throwing
> their finds into their own carsS.. the        shenanigans go on almost
> endlessly. And all this is before we find out it is an impact melt breccia!
> Can you imagine what would have happened had everyone known of the
> rarity of typology in the first days after the fall?
> 
> So, the meteorite market was, understandably DOMINATED in April with
> sales of  Park Forest. And a truly stunning meteorite it is, too. Initial
> rumors of huge quantities of material soon proved to be wrong (some dealers
> actually TURNED AWAY finders        wanting $1/g the first day if their
> fragments had "insufficient" fusion crust!). There was, however, enough
> found that it at least did not turn out to be highly scarce. While I have
> heard no estimates of total weight, it is at least double digit pounds if
> not tens of kilos. The unofficial champion hunter, in terms of numbers of
> finds: Steve Arnold of Arkansas.
> 
> April saw material being sold in a huge range of prices, from a very few
> frags going  the first week for as little as $17/g to someone in the field
> paying $60/g! Now, that doesn't even include the hammer stones that
> nailed man made objects. Fortunately,  or unfortunately, depending on
> perspective, no cats, dogs, people, horses, cows or hamsters were struck
> in the fall ­ but other targets were nailed mercilessly ­ from the yellow
> line in the road to the Garza "Wrecking Ball" that crashed through the
> roof and ceiling and tore a young boy's room to shreds. (Rob Elliot got well
> over a hundred grams of various fragments of this most choice of all
> stones).
> 
> The Hupes teamed with Al Lang to purchase the entire ROOM, ceiling,
> window, etc. from the Garza home and will create a traveling exhibit
> much like the Peekskill car.
> 
>  Besides the extremes in prices, the majority of material, not counting the
> hammers, has sold rapidly for between $25 and $45 per gram, depending on
> multiple factors such as weathering, fusion crust, cut slices vs frags vs
> whole stones, dealer from whom one purchases, etc.
> 
> I have heard NO ONE complain about the material they have purchased,
> regardless of the what price they may have paid or the form of their
> specimen. Everyone is tickled pink with this fall, which comes in everything
> from nearly solid black to a light turquoise aquamarine hue to "spider
> webbed."
> 
>        Personally, I have found myself purchasing several specimens, as one
> or two just  doesn't do this stuff justice, it is so very varied. [I have
> since acquired 11 different fragments of different specific hammer stones
> from this fall ­ and one termite documented to have been killed by the
> Garza Home hammer] the One of my favorite is a 99% fusion crusted oriented
> whole stone under 10 grams that Steve Arnold of Arkansas was kind enough
> to sell me, then several slices  showing varying aspects of this incredible
> material.
> 
>        I can certainly see why the market was dominated by this fabulous
> fall. This thing was  like Holbrook and Peekskill combined, with the
> technology of the internet to bring it all into our own homesS. is that
> cool, or what?!
> 
>        Until next timeS   HAPPY HUNTING!   Michael
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