Show What SCIENCE KNOWS About Abort J Shooting STARS b 4 The Th e W Worlds World's arId's Largest Meteors Weight in Where pre pre- Name Nam kilograms ams served Cape York New York Bacubirito Mexico Chupaderos 2 bodies Mexico 1 J. J Willamette New York El Iorito Morito l Rio Janeiro London Mexico Cape York No 2 2727 New York Casas Grand Grandes s 1545 Washington I i Quinn 1485 Chic Chicago go press dispatches recording the fall fan J 1 RECENT of a great meteorite in Lake Lako Michigan merely add one ope more mare to the long list of well weIl attested events of this character The fall of this body is said to have been attended by a n aBare flare Bare of light visible sible for a radius o of 50 miles and md by a tremendous detonation followed by a n deep prolonged rumbling which shook h houses uses in many towns o of southwestern Michigan and neighboring neighbor neighbor- ing portions of Indiana and Illinois People fled from their homes in terror fearing an earthquake earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake and others through superstitious fear believed the end of the earth had come Many attributed tho the noise and illumination to an explosion explosion sion ion at some great indus industrial al plant plat A light light- house attendant at Grand Haven however who saw the meteor fall describes tho phenomenon phenomenon phenomenon phe phe- as follows What looked like a ball of fire appeared to fall in the lake lako about 1 15 IG miles south of or me mc In its ite rush TUsh downward at terrific speed I could clearly hear it whistle When it seemed that it was Was striking the water a flash of flame shot up and caused a great disturbance Th The Tho study of meteorites is so uncommon a specialty that it has not yet ret even acquired a specific name nam in English Pro Prof O. O C. C Farrington Farring Farring- ton a leading American authority on this sub sub- lJ Jett has suggested the term but he has not explained whether the exponents exponents exponents expo expo- o of this thus specialty arc to tobe tobe tobe be called or what Meteors or shooting stars star as seen in the tho sky arc are no now observed systematically by a large and growing body of ot scientists and amateurs There is an energetic American Ameri Ameri- can Meteor Society with headquarters nt at the University University sity of oi Virginia and there is isan isan isan an equally active Meteor Se Section Section Sec Sec- tion o of the British Astronomical Astronomical Astronomical Astro Astro- Association led b by that veteran student o of meteors meteors me- me W W. F. F Denning On the theother theother theother other hand meteorites the meteorites the e meteoric bodies odies that actually fall to earth earth are arc the flit hobby of a mere handful of mineralogists mineralogists miner miner- such as ns Prof Farrington Farrington Far Far- rington in America and Si Sir Si r rm Lazarus Fletcher in m En Enn Eno En 0 land n because ec the stud study of ot meteorites me me- is a neglected I of science few people real iza that falls fans o of these bodies are ore in to the aggregate at exceed in g common and are arc often quite as sensational in their attendant phenomena as the one recently reported from rom Lake Michigan Iichi an A long list of ot these events is given by Prof Farrington ton in his hb interesting book on meteorites published in 1915 Many brilliant stars falling have been observed observed observed ob ob- served in broad daylight For Fo example a meteor meteor meteor me me- teor of or int intense nse luminosity was seen at l Hungar Hungary Hun Hun- gary gar on Feb 3 1882 at G 15 P. P M. M I. I It was accompanied b by a rolling noise and violent de de- The meteor left behind it a long Jong white stripe like a cirrus cloud About a thousand stones fell to earth the largest weighed pounds |