Posted on 11/04/2016 9:23:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
On an April 6, 2015, Frank Hommel was leading a group of guests at his Bar H Working Dude Ranch on a horseback ride. The horses got thirsty, so Hommel and crew rode cross-country in search of a watering hole. Along the way, his horse Samson suddenly stopped and refused to go any further. Ahead of them was a rock sticking out of the sandy soil. Hommel had never seen his horse act this way before, so he dismounted to get a closer look at the red, dimpled mass. Something inside told him this strange, out of place boulder had to be a meteorite.
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The rock that stopped Samson that April day was the real deal and would soon be classified and named the Clarendon (c) stony meteorite. Only the top third of the mass broke the surface; there was a lot more beneath the soil. Hommel used a tractor to free the beast and tow it to his home. Later, when he and his wife DeeDee got it weighed on the feed store scale, the rock registered a whopping 760 pounds (345 kilograms). Hommel with others returned to the site and recovered an additional 70 pounds (32 kilograms) of loose fragments scattered about the area.
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Clarendon (c) is by far the largest individual space rock to come out of Texas. It also appears to be the second largest individual chondrite meteorite ever found in the United States. Only the Paragould meteorite, which exploded over Arkansas in 1930, dropped a larger individual — 820 pounds (371.9 kg) of pure meteorite goodness that’s on display at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences in Fayetteville.
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[Along the way, his horse Samson suddenly stopped and refused to go any further.]
Makes a person wonder if space exploration may be bad for ones health.
Instant millionaire as well !!!
Yes Sir. That will pay the rent for sure.
The horse sensed something. They’re smart.
Everything is big in Texas.
Not guilty
I’m surprised someone from the government didn’t confiscate it for “the greater good” of the collective.
I’m surprised someone from the government didn’t confiscate it for “the greater good” of the collective.
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Pedosta will if hillabeast gets elected. He needs it for his UFO collection.
So what set the horse off?
Don’t give them any ideas.
I would keep my eyes on that horse for the next few weeks ...
Ted Cruz sighting.
red
Thank you for posting this. This is a magnificent find. I had no idea...lovely.
I wax poetic because I have rocks on rocks I “intend” to slice in my house. Some people collect dolls. I have always collected rocks.
Thank you.
Yet
I don’t know but something about the rock was odd.
Not too sure I’d be getting close to it either.
Oddities:
Frank Hommel, Pommel, a on knob saddle?
Horse had to have sensed something, definitely!
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