A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 445
rusted surface usually exhibits pits and hollows, such as wouldbe produced by thrusting the thumb into a mass of putty. Thesecavities are explained by the burning out of certain more fusible sub-stances during the meteors flight. 762. Magnitude. — Of the meteors actually seen to fall the… … 1 Some of the masses of iron supposed to be of meteoric origin, but not actuallyseen to fall, are very much larger. The iron mass from Otumpa in Mexico is saidto weigh fully sixteen tons. As regards some of these hypothetical meteorites, THEIR PATHS. 433 As seen from a distance of many miles, the…
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