Hi Mike & Martin, New Concord certainly did not escape my awareness for meteoritic hammers (that "nailed" something). It is one of about 20 I offer in my "Hammer Set," and one of the largest - a several gram specimen in each set. New Concord is nice, fresh, beautiful stuff, well documented, as well.....unlike the ol' Nakhla Dog (bait, bait), which I also include in the set, though in a Bessey Speck sample, of course, to keep the sets affordable. While I don't sell individual specimens apart from the set, I WILL TRADE to get a hammer I don't yet have, or have only tiny bits of. Some of these guyes have really interesting pedagrees, such as Barwell, which struck not only cars and buildings, but one stone flew in a window, bounced off the floor and landed in a cup of tea! Of course, there are more "common" examples, such as Allende (roofs, houses & patios), Holbrook (Train Station), Juancheng (through a roof into a pot on the stove!), etc. So, we don't only have dead cows, horses, cars and mailboxes, but a slew of other items, as well as a badly bruised housewife. For a TERRIFIC list of "hammers" throughout history, see the extensive list maintained by Walter Branch at: http://www.branchmeteorites.com/MetStruck.html In my sets, so far, at least, the hardest to get was the Sylagauga which is exceptionally well documented as hitting a woman. I have HEARD of one reputed to go through a car windshield and strike the driver in the hand, but I have NEVER seen the material offered.... also, I want more & have only Bessey Specks of the extremely rare HH, Burnwell (Sept.4, 1990 Pike Co. KY TKW 1.504kg - Single stone fell through a porch), Canon City, Co. & Bovedy, Ireland. Of course, my gratest interest lay in specimens of which I have none.....and there are many listed at the site referenced above. Anyone who has any fall that hit something, which I do not have yet or of which I have only tiny amounts, I would be very interested in purchasing and/or trading. I have only about 20 different falls in my sets so far. I consider hammers to be, by far, the most interesting of all falls. I know some collectors collect ONLY falls & not finds - these are the kings and queens of falls for my money. My favorites are Peekskill, mostly because I have a video tape of the magnificent fall, Valera, because of its lethality and beauty, Claxton, just appeals to the 12 year old vandal I once was, Sylacauga - because it actually hit a PERSON and, New Concord, again, for the beauty, freshness and lethality. These guys really tell impressive tales! Best wishes, Michael -- "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." -- Dan Quayle, 11/30/88 -- Worth Seeing: - Earth at night from satalite: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg - Earth - variety of choices: http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html -- FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/jFYolB/TM -- Michael Blood Meteorites for sale at: http://www.meteorite.com/Michael_Blood/catalog.htm
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