Sterling and list,
The meteorite you are referring to is the Benld, which fell in Illinois in
1938. (I apologize for lateness of reply--out of town)
Interesting to note that the Chicago Field Museum's display, (replete with
part of the actual garage roof and automobile spring and
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Sterling and list,
The meteorite you are referring to is the Benld, which fell in Illinois in
1938. (I apologize for lateness of reply--out of town)
Interesting to note that the Chicago Field Museum's display, (replete with
part of the actual garage roof and automobile
Hi, List,
The almost entire main mass of the car-killer (sorry, there was
no dog in the car) lives in the Field Museum in Chicago. The
whereabouts of the car is unknown.
Sterling K. Webb
Sterling, and group:
Parts of the car (the perforated roof, the dented muffler and the seat
cushion
, 2002 8:58 AM
To: Sterling K. Webb
Cc: Meteorite List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite Pronunciation
Hi, List,
The almost entire main mass of the car-killer (sorry, there was
no dog in the car) lives in the Field Museum in Chicago. The
whereabouts of the car is unknown.
Sterling
Thanks for the correction, Mark.
I've been researching Benld on the ground, so to speak. I've been to
the newspaper office (same newspaper forever) and seen the original
article reporting the fall, a surprizingly intelligent article, but short.
The paper was a weekly published on Friday
Hi, List,
As long as we're lining up to be the official pronouncers of
meteoritic names based on our native locales, put me down as the
native speaker for BENLD (Illinois, 1938), the first recorded
meteorite to hit an automobile. I live just 10.2 miles from its
ground zero, or should I say,
Hi Philip and All,
Now we're cooking with gas! The mp3 files are really the way to go. Imagine
the database with native speakers pronouncing the meteorite names for all
the world to hear with just a mouse click. Soon, as we drive across country,
we can take the bird call CD out and pop in one to
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: meteorite pronunciation
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:21:01 -0700
Hi Philip and All,
Now we're cooking with gas! The mp3 files are really the way to go. Imagine
the database with native speakers
more troublesome because manyhave American Indian name orgins. Thanks, Mark - Original Message - From: Martin Horejsi Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: meteorite pronunciation Hi Philip and All,Now we're cooking with gas! The mp3
As an expatriate Ohioan, do I get dibs on the Ohio meteorites or the
Hawaiian ones? My pidgin accent isn't that great (Ho, brah, we got da
kine Honolulu an' da kine Palolo Valley) but I suspect that a decade and
a half in tropical climes has corrupted my flat Midwestern accent.
Besides, I only
Hi all,
Here's one from the Netherlands - another country who's language has the
added trouble that some sounds just do not have equivalents in English
meteorite name: Glanerbrug
Pronunciation:
- the two g's at beginning and end are sharp glottal g's, not unlike the
sound you make when a
At 09:26 PM 4/4/02 -0500, Bob Martino wrote:
There is a web site which teaches one how to pronounce star names. It
spells the name out, gives the phonetic spelling, and if you click on the
little button you'll hear a nice female voice actually say the name a
couple of times.
Something like this
In a message dated 4/4/2002 8:22:16 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Something like this could be done with meteorite names. That someone would
not be me, of course, as my tech skills are limited and my voice not sexy
enough.
I nominate Anne Black. She has a very impressive
I recorded my best attempts at the pronunciation of Orgueil and L'Aigle.
http://www.pibburns.com/laigle.mp3
http://www.pibburns.com/orgueil.mp3
They're mp3 encoded, which most recent computer systems can handle.
-- Philip R. Pib Burns
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