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He says: "It is, indeed, an iron meteorite, and the special interest of this statement lies in the fact that, though our great collection of 311 distinct meteorites at the Museum contains 104 indubitable iron meteorites, the falls of only seven of the latter were witnessed.
The proponents of the natural meteor, or meteorite, theory presented facts that they had dug out of astronomical journals. Greenish-colored meteors, although not common, had been observed on many occasions. The flat trajectory, which seemed to be so important in proving that the green fireballs were extraterrestrial, was also nothing new.
Results of a Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Painted Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona. 1890. Ten miles southeast of Canon Diablo station on the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad, stands the Meteorite Mountain of Arizona, on a wide, open plain of the Colorado Plateau. It is two hundred feet high and, as seen at a distance, has the appearance of a low, flat mountain.
F. W. Volz, who has lived in the country twenty years and is an intelligent observer of natural phenomena, has made a careful study of the mountain, and it is his opinion that such an event actually occurred and that a falling star made the mountain. When the descending meteorite, with its great weight and terrific momentum, hit the earth something had to happen.
Low in the sky hung the silvery crescent of the new moon, while almost overhead Mars glowed brightly. "There's our goal, Ned," murmured Tom, pointing to the red planet. "I feel sure that our meteorite came from that far-off world!" "Granting that it did come from another planet," objected Ned, "I don't get the reason why you're so sure it came from Mars.
"Don't shout like that so near the phone! Yes, the men are O.K. A big fish had 'em don't know what it was, as I never heard of anything like it. But a couple of shots from the rifle killed it." "Tell Captain Britten to send down some heavy chains. We've found the meteorite!" The now jubilant crew, who had feared their companions lost, scurried about.
As they come to us these meteorites often break up in the atmosphere, the bits being scattered sometimes over a wide area of country. Thus, in the case of the Cocke County meteorite of Tennessee, one of the iron species, the fragments, perhaps thousands in number, which came from the explosion of the body were scattered over an area of some thousand square miles.
There is little doubt that these masses formed part of a meteorite shower, although no record exists as to when the fall took place.
'It doesn't hurt you very much, does it? he asked, solicitous. 'Not at all, she cried. And suddenly the rabbit, which had been crouching as if it were a flower, so still and soft, suddenly burst into life. Round and round the court it went, as if shot from a gun, round and round like a furry meteorite, in a tense hard circle that seemed to bind their brains.
Into the gloom it vanished, the little meteorite of latent death, of potential horror and destruction. "If it hits 'em, they'll think we are gods, after all, what?" cried the engineer, peering eagerly. But for a moment, nothing happened. "Missed it!" he groaned. "If I only had my right arm to use now, I might "
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