[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - Hammer?

[Michael Blood]

Hi Juris & others interested,
        Mike Farmer tells me hundreds if not thousands of stones
Have been recovered from roofs (but mixed in with all others).
        As for the shockwave question....debatable. Carancus in Peru
Had a shockwave that killed a llama and a ewe, but also had ejected
A mudball filled with meteoritic fragments hit the roof of a house.
(See photo and story about 1/3rd down the page at:

http://michaelbloodmeteorites.com/Hammers3.html

Under, CARANCUS)
        So, given the roof stones and the woman struck, Chelyabinsk is
Definitely a hammer fall...though it remains to be seen if we will end up
With specimens KNOWN to be hammer stones. (Ironically, hundreds
Of hammer stones will end up in collections - but unidentified as such).
        Michael


On 3/30/13 9:50 AM, "JPBrockets at aol.com" <JPBrockets at aol.com> wrote:

> Hello List:
> 
> Are there reports of any of  the stones actually hitting man made
> structures?  Also, is the shockwave  damage to buildings sufficient to
> classify the 
> fall as a Hammer?
> 
> Juris  
> 
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