[meteorite-list] Meteorites Hitting People/Animals
From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:50:26 2004 Message-ID: <3CB632F0.8CF4A23C_at_bhil.com> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <tt>Hi, Pib,</tt><tt></tt> <p><tt> Thanks for the X-lation. I started by correcting one date. And before you know it, I was adding in a few that were missed, inserted in chronological order. The game of lists goes on.</tt><tt></tt> <p><tt>Sterling</tt> <br><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------</tt> <br>"Philip R. Burns" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>(I sent this yesterday but it doesn't appear to have been delivered <br>by the list server. My apologies in advance if you receive a <br>duplicate copy.) <p>At 08:32 AM 4/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: <br>>Hello all <br>> <br>>I put here a list of probably meteorites have hitting <br>>people/animals, is in italian language but I hope easy <br>>to translate, the list is from the new book of <br>>Dr.Cevolani on Renazzo meteorite: <p>Here is my rough translation of Matteo's list. Italian <br>is not one of my strong suits, so I wasn't certain of <br>how best to translate a few words. <p>===== <p>14 January 616 B.C.: more than 10 people died <br>following the the fall of a meteorite on the field (camp?) <br>of the rebellious Lu Ming-yeuh. The meteorite destroyed <br>a war tower (Siege engine?). <p>July-August 1020: some people were killed by <br>a rain of meteorites in North Africa. <p>Around 1341: a lot of people and animals were struck down <br>by an iron rain from the sky.</blockquote> <tt>1369. Ho-t'ao, China. "Large star" fell, started fire, soldiers injured. Yau, et al.</tt> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>February-March 1490: Stones fell as rain. More <br>than 10,000 people died in the district of <br>Ch'ing-yang in the Province of Shansi in China. The stones <br>weighed 1 - 1.5 kgs. <p>September 14th 1511: a monk and quite a lot of animals <br>fell victim at Cremona, Lombardy, Italy to the <br>fall of many stones next to the river Adda. <br>The stones weighed at least 50 kgs.</blockquote> <tt>Several birds and a sheep.</tt> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>1633 (?): a monk perished in Milan from a <br>wound to his leg caused by the fall of a meteorite. <p>1639: a big stone fell on a market killing <br>about ten people and destroying some houses <br>in Ch'ang-shou province in China. <p>1648: two sailors lost their lives following the fall of a <br>meteorite onto a ship sailing from Holland to Batavia.</blockquote> <tt>Date indetermined, was 1647-1654. Indian Ociean. Ship enroute from Japan to Sicily.</tt> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>July 24th 1790: a meteorite fell on a farmer's house <br>killing a farmer(?) and some livestock in Gascogne, France. <p>January 16th 1825: a man was killed and a woman <br>wounded by the fall of a meteorite in Oriang, Malwate, India.</blockquote> <tt>Feb 27, 1827. Mhow, India. Man killed. Woman injured.</tt> <p><tt>December 11, 1836. Macao, Brazil. Houses destroyed. Several oxen killed.</tt> <p><tt>May 1, 1860. New Concord, Ohio USA. Colt struck and killed.</tt> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>June 30th 1874: during a storm, a big stone <br>fell from the sky in Chin-kuei Shan, China, destroying <br>a house and killing a child. <p>January 31st 1879: a farmer was killed by a <br>meteorite at Dun-le-Poelier, Indre, France.</blockquote> <tt>Nov 19, 1881. Grossliebenthal, Prussia. Man reported injured by meteorite. Dubious.</tt> <p><tt>March 11, 1897. New Martinsville, WV USA. Man knocked out. Horse killed. Reported in the New York Times, March 12, 1897.</tt> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>September 5th 1907: a stone fell from the sky and killed <br>a whole family in Hsin-p'ai Wei, China. <p>June 30th 1908: two men were killed along with <br>about a hundred reindeer during the Tunguska event <br>in Siberia, Russia.</blockquote> <tt>June 28, 1911. Nakhla, Egypt. The Dog.</tt> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>December 8th 1829: a person was killed during <br>a wedding in Zvezvan, Yugoslavia.</blockquote> <tt>The correct date is Dec 8, 1929. Reported in the New York Times, Dec 9, 1929.</tt><tt></tt> <p><tt>June 24, 1938. Chicora, Pennsylvania. Cow struck and injured.</tt><tt></tt> <p><tt>May 16, 1946. Santa Ana, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 28 persons injured and "many" houses destroyed by fall. Reported in the New York Times, May 17, 1946.</tt><tt></tt> <p><tt>Nov 28, 1954. Sylacauga, Alabama USA. Mrs. Anne Hodges struck by 4 kg meteorite.</tt> <br><tt>Reported in the New York Times, Nov 29, 1954 and MET 1,125 (1963).</tt> <br><tt></tt> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>===== <p>-- Philip R. "Pib" Burns <br> pib_at_pibburns.com <br> <a href="http://www.pibburns.com/">http://www.pibburns.com/</a> <br><a href="http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list"></a> </blockquote> </html> Received on Thu 11 Apr 2002 09:05:53 PM PDT |
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