| Show BIa METEORITE and In Thoy Indent the Earth In Fall The Meteorite they cAll It at the National museu Is the latet thing oC kInd In the world It to earth about eight one morning July with Thomas on rood liS Its lighting place It a ot and Iron und Is BUp polled to e pounds whon It tell As It la fleen at the Na mu um Washington n C now It Is and n Seven pounds oC It Wore broken or hacked orr by relic lovers It got Into the ot mUseum o Ilea pie over the Aile to ha 0 seen It fall It camo with a rushing roaring nolle like that unto distant thunder The down It gave a bluIsh to the through which It but no lu It was not 80 hot when It tell ns Is atle ted 11 the tact the and Into which It tell were but very charred The stone Is now lIeen at the mus museum eum Is about Inches long twelve Inches thick and Is rather Ir Irregular regular In One or It III badlY It I In outline surfaces with a thin crust Pro who with I Geor e P the oC tho best on In at It tn hIli to mo structure and tho are and an orthorhombIc with nry ted Iron and undermined sulphIdes It belong to the group known as the l 6 L A A ot This meteorite 18 80 loft that It to when between tho thumb and It I kept In n It Is probable that the by meteorItes Jt Is protected by the which tor a o some miles nets as a keep the meteorites ott Scientists tell tellus us that the wonder Is not that the meteorites fall but they get getto to the ground tor they lune great op to be burned tiP by the atmo phere as they through The twenty to a second until It enter tho atmosphere It II 18 then reduced by tho resist resistance ance oC tho nh It Calls I U IR not In Ilk 1 brIck o a Sometimes the gen ot hent os It rush s through tho though not enough to burn 11 up cause ex anlon to make It bUrst al nearlY always coverEd with 1 crust oC reo suiting Croin tho heating vf the at the mass durIng the tells me tM tin the tall oC th ro Is no os The ma occur at nil times all periods The meteorites be o any shape or may be made up chiefly oC or metal or at The r In Ihre Iron and Thero oro theories nil 10 their origin but the on Is that The Is the most ta and best known at the museum It II upon the Santa moun Ariz Is MId to hae lOllS been by the ns an anvil It Courteen hn 1 I dred pounds anI has a great hole through the miMic oC It It were meant to be around on the neck oC an ox There or b tw n three our hundred In the museum of un and brought tram nil parl ot the world The Hessle meteorite fell on thIn Ice but IG was It up cushion It did not break tho Ice and rebounded un unbroken broken Itsel The Warrenton MOo meteorite weigh In a hundred pounds ground The Ume Umeo o their Is flO that It Is b seconds Some oC the meteorites arc so and Inflammable that they burn read II by the flame or n candle oC them IlS the Canoll DIablo oC Arlzo na contains |
