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VI.—A Chapter in the History of Meteorites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Walter Flight
Walter Flight
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Of the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum.
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Shortly after this remarkable shower of meteorites had taken place two very full reports on the occurrence were drawn up by von Haidinger. It is computed that over a very limited area more than a thousand stones, weighing in all from 8 to 10 cwt., must have fallen. The largest found is now preserved in the Vienna Collection; it weighs 293·3 kilog. (5 cwt. 3 qrs. 3 lbs.), and measures 2ft. 4 in. long and 18 in. broad, and penetrated the ground to a depth of 11 ft. For drawings of this enormous block, the largest mass of meteoric rock preserved in any collection, and coloured representations of the meteor which was observed at the time of its descent, the reader is referred to von Haidinger's two memoirs.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 12 , December 1875 , pp. 589 - 608
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1875

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