"IMHO, the fault lies not in the use of the term, but the existance of it." Darren, you hit the nail on the head - You're a hammer! Thank you for that.
Next step would be, to dissociate the "hammer"-concept from solely meteorites and to extend it e.g. on hailstones, lightning strokes, birds, airplanes, apples & pears, flower pots and roof tiles...and who says, that a hammer as always to happen vertically? and a new field of collecting is born. Hammer Collecting... and then we can leave that kind of discussion to the expert collectors from there and could later overtake their definitions. Huh, here in Central-Europe most of the landscape, fields, meadows, forests are shaped by men.... we have a huge potential of not yet revealed hammers sitting in our cupboards. Btw. Are non-observed falls, so called "finds" also allowed to be called "hammers" if they're found in the right place? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Darren Garrison Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 20:14 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:57:59 -0400, you wrote: >Michael Blood has an opinion, not a rule. If a meteorite lands in my yard or >a baseball field does it qualify as a "hammer" since these places were man >made? Over use of a term for marketing (not saying Steve had done this here) >is simply stupid! IMHO, the fault lies not in the use of the term, but the existance of it. The fact that you can pick and choose which human created, human maintained objects (which would quickly fall into disrepair and soon after fall apart without peirodic maintainance) qualify as "hammer worthy" and which don't are the fault of the ambiguity of the term, not of those using the term. Or else, someone needs to compound an official, authoritative list of what an artifact needs to be built from before something hitting it can become a hammering. And the shape of the thing would have to be accounted for, too-- if a earthern dam doesn't count, how about a mud-roofed hut somewhere? ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
