[meteorite-list] A curious reference

From: Walter Branch <waltbranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:44 2004
Message-ID: <000f01c1f207$964ce840$53f0b83f_at_cc516468a>

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know what is "patent bucket" is and how large it is?

Since a retrievable reference is supplied, I will go ahead and add this one
to my list of meteorites that have hit things. Perhaps someone could do
further research on this one in the future.

-Walter

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Walter Branch, Ph.D.
Branch Meteorites
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Savannah, GA 31405 USA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Pickup" <alan_at_wingar.demon.co.uk>
To: "Francis Graham" <francisgraham_at_rocketmail.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A curious reference


> Francis Graham <francisgraham_at_rocketmail.com> writes
> >Now here's a curious reference:
> >
> >English Mechanic "Killed by a Meteor" 1880 06 04
> >
> >Alas. My library does not have this. I could do an
> >interlibrary request, but if this has your curiosity
> >aroused too, and your library has back issues of the
> >"English Mechanic", it will save time if you share a
> >synopsis.
>
> Francis (& list),
>
> I have unearthed the copy of the "English Mechanic and World of Science"
> No 793 for June 4, 1880, in the library of the Royal Observatory,
> Edinburgh. There is a one paragraph note (p316 of the volume) that
> reads:
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Killed by a Meteor -- The "South Australian register" for April 3 quotes
> the "Littleton Times" as stating that as David Meisenthaler, a
> well-known stockman of Whitestone township, was driving his cows to the
> barn about daylight a short time ago, he was struck by an aerolite and
> instantly killed. It appears as if the meteor had come from a direction
> a little west of south, and fell from an angle of about 60 degrees, for
> it first passed through a tall maple, cutting the limbs as clean as if
> it had been a cannon-ball, and then struck him apparently on or under
> the shoulder, passing clean through him obliquely from below the right
> shoulder to above the left hip, and buried itself about two feet in the
> soft black ground. The poor man's head and legs were injured, but the
> greater part of his body seems to have been crushed into the earth
> beneath the terrific aerolite, which was about the size of a common
> patent bucket, and apparently of a rough, round shape. It appeared to be
> formed of what is called iron pyrites.
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Alan
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