[meteorite-list] Valera - documentation?

[Shawn Alan]

By chance do you have a copy or a link to this document? Would help with what your saying :)
 
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[meteorite-list] Valera - documentation?
MexicoDoug mexicodoug 
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Sun Nov 20 00:51:06 EST 2011 
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Dear List; 

I have a question about the cow killing 
incident. 

The meteorite fell in 1972. I understand from rumors that it 
is 
absolutely a confirmed cow killer. But the document doesn't read as an 
absolute fact, but rather circumstantial evidence (which as a meteorite 
collector appreciating the size of the mass I want to believe quite 
strong). 

The affidavit was signed in 2001, after the Doctor on whose 
property 
the meteorite landed had died. 

Yet when I heard this, it 
was explained to me that a doctor had 
pronounced the cow dead and there was 
injury visible on the cow caused 
by the falling mass (a 50 kg stone). I 
always thought that a Doctor 
actually swore to the wound on the cow and was 
convinced it was caused 
by the stone, since a doctor would be expected to 
have a good idea of 
what such a wound would look like. 

This thread 
just prompted me to me read the affidavit. It doesn't say 
anything about 
wounds on the cow. 

The affidavit was by the Doctor's visitor, and 
specifically does not 
even mention that the doctor made any opinion about 
the meteorite 
killing the cow. But does mention the doctor had owned the 
property 
and passed away subsequently. No one from the Doctor's family, just 
the visitor, Juan Dionicio, commenting 30 years later says it 
"appeared" 
(presumably him since he doesn't mention the doctor) the cow 
was killed by 
the rock when he saw it the next day. It does not 
mention any injuries or 
wounds to the cow at all. Just "it appeared 
the cow had been killed by the 
rock" and also that "the cow then 
eaten". 

Yet I heard at the time I 
bought this that the cow had sustained a 
mortal injury the injury I recall 
being described at one point. Why 
this is not in the document? ... has me 
thinking something must be 
missing? 

Is this the only document that 
discusses the claim of a cow being 
killed? Because it seems to me people 
have much more information than 
is contained in the affidavit. (But I've run 
up enough against rumors 
to believe that it's easily possible for the rumors 
to just be taller 
tales down the line). Was there a newspaper article in the 
70's or 
anything predating this, or were there any other witnesses besides 
Juan 
Dionicio, the mysterious guest who it sounds spent several nights on 
the good doctor's ranch? I'd really like to know. 

Kindest wishes 
Doug 


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