On Sat, 20 May 2006 16:26:32 +0200, you wrote: >In 1983 we had an astonishing hail storm here in Munich. >Hailstones were egg to fist-sized, they fell from sky, they destroyed >thousands of windows and damaged thousands of cars, >so you may take it for a historical event and to the hailstones you could >ascribe a cultural and national meaning. >And of course perhaps some meteorologists may see a certain scientific >relevance in them. >Some people stored some grains for a while in their iceboxes until the next >cleaning, though practically all hailstones melted away in the streets >within a few hours.
I just experenced a fresh fall about half an hour ago! Sadly, apparenlty the entire strewn-field melted away, so nobody bother asking about shipping rates. :-( http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/hail.jpg ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list