Fw: [meteorite-list] A curious reference

From: MuseumStore/NatureSource <musnat_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:44 2004
Message-ID: <001c01c1f20a$a1b56920$9c8d70d1_at_JCD>

Yes, a huge thank you to all who have posted regarding this "curious" event!
I will definitely forward this to my other list who will no doubt appreciate
it greatly!

Regards,
Jeanne Devon
The Museum Store/Nature Source
www.thenaturesource.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Latimer <tracyl_at_lib.state.hi.us>
To: Alan Pickup <alan_at_wingar.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Francis Graham <francisgraham_at_rocketmail.com>;
meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A curious reference


>Thank you for finding this for us -- for the benefit of all who don't have
>access to this magazine at all. Too bad no one apparently thought to
>collect and keep the "aerolite" that killed this fellow. Smoking
>meteorite gun!
>
>Tracy Latimer
>
>On Thu, 2 May 2002, Alan Pickup wrote:
>
>> 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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