Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy (1909)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, Harper & brothers · leaf 231
here has been found at depth a consider-able amount of fused quartz (original sandstone), andwith it innumerable particles or sparks of fusednickel-iron (original meteorite). A projectile of thatsize penetrating eleven to twelve hundred feet intothe rocky shell of the globe must have produced… … METEORS, FIRE-BALLS, METEORITES vertically downward, for it formed a circular craterin the rocky crust of the earth. In that case itwould have been less retarded by the resistanceof the atmosphere than are meteorites which enter theair at a lower angle and shoot ahead hundreds ofmiles until…
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