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An introduction to astronomy (1916)

Moulton, Forest Ray, 1872-1952 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 392

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or four out of every hundred are nearly pure ironwith a little nickel. All together about 30 elements whichoccur elsewhere on the earth have been found in meteorites,but no strange ones. Yet in some respects their structureis quite different from that of terrestrial substances. They CH. X, 209]… … Fig. 134. — Iron meteorite from Canon Diablo, Arizona;pounds (Farrington). weight, 265 combustible. According to Farrington, some meteors giveevidence of fragmentation and recementation, others showfaulting (fracture and shding of one surface on another) with

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