Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 66
e or two per centare nearly pure iron mixed with nickel. When pickedup, they are usually covered with a glossy thin blackcrust. This overcoat they have put on in comingthrough our air. Air-begotten, too, are the holes withwhich many of them are pitted. For entering our at-mosphere with their speed… … being warm to the touch their hearts are still cosmically cold. The Dhurmsala meteorite falling into moist earth was found an hour afterwards coated with frost. Agassiz likened it to the Chinese culinary chef dceuvre fried ice. It is the cold of space, 2000 or more Centigrade be-low zero, that they…
Cosmogony
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