Show GIANT METEOR IN IDAHO Estimated thePlanetoid Was Twelve Miles in Diameter Lv S Walkor o Moravia Ida In a let tor to the SpokesmanJRovlew of Spokane describes I fiint meteor which passed over that section Says Mr Walkor On lie night of the 22nd inat at 10 oclock a large nmcte r appeared In Iho southoapuin horizon traversed lie heavens heav-ens and disappeared nt the northwest ho ilsjou ItJ I t track was nearly on n beat circle crossing the zenith at about tm 0 cksrees above limo equator Its angle with Ihe equal or was about 3 degrees amid Its angle with the I horizon the stunt at its apixuranco and clliupncarancc Its mini form rolor and volume clear across the sky showed that Its contact with the tit motphcre must have been at I very low angle This makes It likely that the meteor me-teor had traversed the thin upper air a long time gradually going deeper Into the atmospheie rising In temperature till It burst into incandescence In other words It wau n planetoid that had for apos revolved about the carlb In an orbit whose Imperfect equilibrium of force dropped at last Into a spiral and precipitated It earthward Time short half minute o tie endurance of the Htrcak of sparks across the sky gave only small opportunity for observation observa-tion but the track of light appeared to be about ICO miles high It wan a path of sparks and incandescent gas about one degree wide gle Takhu lie I radius of expansion for Cases the mass of matter when solid must have been nbout twelve miles In mle dlamrtcr Think of a miniature moon whose disk was wo imall to catch the eye of < the man at the telescope gradually approach lag the earth at a casmical velocity Us evup shortening radius accelerating Its speed until It begins to shako the outer air Friction with the rare upper atmosphere atmos-phere in n course almost parallel with the surface of the earth be must hI continued con-tinued a long time to effect the volatil ising of a rock of any considerable volume vol-ume nut the defect in equilibrium of Its forces resolved its orbit Into a spiral that ended In its dispersion The phenomenon Is I very rare and I I waited a few days hoplns to hear from I some of our observatories |