Deseret Evening News | 1903-09-01 | Page 5 | An Immense Meteor

AN IMMENSE METEOR Ono One Twelve Ues In Diameter Passes nn an Idaho Town Ove Writing to 10 time the W V S f Moravia Ida titus thus describes n a meteor recently seen II Jim that On the night ot of time ot at 10 a large meteor appeared Jim In hut tho horizon the limo and t the tho north west horl on Ia Its track Wil was on ona a great circle 1 cro crossing time the ut at c rc about lb degrees the equator iK wih the tho equator wal 3 Ie tIe grees Its wll with tIme tho horIzon time the at l ita and lH its anti vol volume oi utile ume clear across time the ky that ls its contact with th the have been nt at a very ery low angie ThIs I It tIme meteor melcor had traversed time upper air R It Ion hong time going deeper Into time the In temperature till I It burst Into Incandescence In hum other words It waR n a that hall tor or ages revolved Ih thin earth In on nn orbi orbit whoso whose t I ot of tor forces cl at II hut t into Inlo ward 1 0 spIral raid I ii I carth Time hort hal of oC time the mince ot of the tho streak or of across s time the theRk Rk sky gave Call somali tM for ol but th the track a of all ap p to 10 b W about 10 miles mile I It all as a patti ot of sparks nail gas Hns one degree wid wide To Taking king tl the r tl ot of expansion for or gnats KaROS time tho ot of Inter matter when IU t have been about 12 mile In Ii dl cinder Think o n a miniature moon whOse lwI woe OS too lma small 1 tl to the I eye O of thui man nt at the Iho tell pl gradually op preaching the tho earth nt at n a We e Its ever shortening radius n ll orating Is its speed until It begins to shake the outer air Fricton Friction wih with the tho I rare upper In a coure course nl at f most mOKI parallel wih with time Iho surface ot of the tho earth be a 11 time timeto to effect time thc volatilizing of at a ock ot of nimy volume Hut flut the tho oct do de oct In of Its forces od ed 11 Its oll lt Into 1 a sl that ended In Its 11 he h I is Y very r rare and t I a fel ow days hoping 11 hi hear front of our I I