The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 516
ites, and move usually with terrestrialvelocities, while the iron meteorites move much faster.According to Berwerth of Vienna, some nine hundredmeteorites of noticeable size fall on the earth each year. There are many remarkable stories handed down fromearly times of stony meteorites falling from… … American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. Plate XLIII. The Ahnighito Meteorite (The great Cape York Meteorite, lo feet ii inches long, 6 feet 9 inches high,and 5 feet 2 inches thick) Comets and Meteors 417 stood was a meteoric stone. The celebrated blackstone in the Caaba, an old temple at Mecca,…
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