Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 55
ever issometimes very considerable : one found in South America was calculatedto weigh 14 tons, another discovered in Mexico, 20 tons. There is in theBritish Museum a good specimen of an iron meteorite, which isrepresented in Fig. 16, where it will be observed that a portion has beencut off to form… … Fig. 16.—Aerolite in the British Museum. possess surface characters which are easily observed and identified whenonce a specimen has been examined. The fall of meteorites to thesurface of the earth is comparatively rare, but it has been witnessed byeven scientific observers ; as when Gassendi, the…
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