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Show A SENSATIONAL METEOR. That was a sensational meteor which struck in the Sandia mountains twenty-flvo twenty-flvo miles from Albuquerque, Now Mexico, Mex-ico, last Friday night. It exploded tho dynamite and powder magazine of the La Luz Mining company and wrecked all tho buildings in the camp, A cabin in which three men had been playing cards, and from which they ran to ob-servo ob-servo the meteor, was blown to atoms. The stovo in the cabin was lodged in a tree 200 ards away. Tho mysteriouH visitors fTom space usually called meteors aro of three varieties va-rieties the shooting star, tho bolide, and the aerolite. The shooting star is gaseous, the bolido is solid, and the aerolite is a fragment of tho bolide. Tt is not unlikely that tho bolido which hit the La Luz mining camp was itself shattered by its own explosion, and that this 'explosion in turn detonated tho dynamite. The bolide as it rushes through the atmosphere appears like a globo of lire and leaves a luminous track behind it. Soniotimes it bursts with an explosion liko that of an enormous enor-mous shell. Bolides aro regarded by some scientists scien-tists as similar in origin and being to the planets which circulate in such great numbers around tho sun and as probably themselves forming part of the planetary system. Tho discovery made of a largo number of planets of ory small dimensions has induced tho h lief thai there exijt3 a multitude ot Miirs still smaller wlm-h hao escape! observation. Others regard the bolides as bodies wandoring freely in Bpaco and penetrating ovory now and thon tho atmosphere at-mosphere of tho earth. Admiral Peary brought back from tho north a groat meteor of iron. It was his bolief that for ages tho Eskimos Es-kimos obtained tho iron for their ar- row heads from this motoor. |