[meteorite-list] 03-22-1884, New York Times, Russian Meteorites

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:25 2004
Message-ID: <F1781TbdkSmLAztxc1o000000d7_at_hotmail.com>

Paper: New York Times
City: New York, NY
Date: Saturday, March 22, 1884
Page: 4


RUSSIAN METEORITES
        From the London Times

  An interesting report upon a meteorite which fell at Grovllebeathal, near
Odessa, in November, 1681, has just been furnished to the French Academy of
Sciences by M. Daubree. About 7 o'clock one morning a bright and serpentine
tail of fire was seen passin gover the town by the inhabitamts of Odessa,
and M. Prendel, editor of one of the Odessa papers, surmising that the
phenomenon betokened a fall of meteorites, offered a reward to any person
who would bring him one. There days afterward a gentlemen of
Grorsstucbenthal brought him one which had been found by a peasant who was
nearly frightened out of his senses at its fall. It fell beside him whih at
work in his field and buried itself .55 meters into the ground. The peasant
dug out the stone, but kept the occurrence a secret from his neighbors for
fear of their ridicule. The stone weighs 8 kilograms and and has a rough
polyhedric form. M. Prendel also learned that at the same time, some 42
kilometres north-east of Odessa, near the post station of Sitschawsha (?), a
meteorite fell to the ground and wounded a postilion. It was soon broken to
pieces and distributed among the peasants, who preserved the fragments as
tailsmans. Moreover, at Elisabethgrad, some 265 kilometres north-north-east
of Odessa, a luminous trajectory was seen slightly inclined to the horizon,
and traveling south-south-west. The direction of this meteor renders it
probable that, it was the same which passed over Odessa. In external
characteristics the Grossliebenthal meteorite examined by M. Daubreo
resembles the meteorite which fell at Luce (Sarthel on Sept. 13. 1763, a
type which is represented in the Paris Museum of Natural History by 54
distinct falls, of which the products are identical among themselves. In
geological composition it is, according to M. Daubree's terminology, a
sporado-sidere oligodere.


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