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Show Uvcen llie places 107 miles. If the meteor moved at the rata of 5 miles per second it would pass belween those places in 21 seconds, and its course must have been south about 7 decrees east. To find the efl'ective temperature to which a metcoroid is exposed in moving through our atmosphere, we, according to Xewcomh, divide its velocity in feet per second by 125; the square of the quotient will give the temperature in degrees. de-grees. If the la Lc meteor moved at the rale of o miles per second, the heat developed would be -U,01-l degrees de-grees no wonder it was bright. A. Brigham City, March 21. j TlilT SKTE01L. j SunnJllOnt; Iiiiovctihiir Ali'int tlio Kui tl. I Uixl HiiviiiK llf'iivcnly It. ..Il.'-t. TilK Buiii.i:it bus traced the late meteor from Benson to Provo, and states that it was seen al Brigham and those places simultaneously. j At first thought thi-s to some, might appear incorrect; hut a little further exam iuat ion will prove in practically true. At. what velocity nm-4 a body travel to move para I lei With t he earl h's surface? To answer this question we raise other iiiesli,ns. First, how far docs a body fall in one second? Answer, III feel. W hat is the curving, or rounding, of the earth's surface? Answer, S inches in one milc,and beyond this S inches times the square of the distance in miles. Take o miles, for example. exam-ple. The sipiare of o is -.". ami 'J" times S i nehes .jual Id feel S inches, hence tin1 curvature of the earth in " iniies is cipial to the fall of a body in one second. Therefore, a b idy moving al the rate ol o miles per sec md would move parallel to the tarth's surface. sur-face. At a rate h ss than this it would fall to (he earth, am1, at a rate great- r than this it would fall to the earth if its direction was downward; if not, U would p ws olV into space again, unles-; it, was consumed con-sumed by heat or exploded in its journey. Now, Benson is in latitude -II d. 17 in., Ion. Ill d. "7 in.; Provo in lat. 4(1 .1. Bl m. IS s., Ion. Ill d. -40 m, -7 s., and the distance bc- |
