Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 64
r 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 in… … being warm to the touch their hearts are still cosmicallycold. The Dhurmsala meteorite falling into moistearth was found an hour afterwards coated with frost.Agassiz likened it to theChinese culinary chefdoeuvre fried ice. Itis the cold of space, 200°or more Centigrade be-low zero, that they…
Cosmogony
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