[meteorite-list] NP Article, 05-1883 Alfianello Fall Article?

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:44 2004
Message-ID: <20030304071142.40733.qmail_at_web10305.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all

Yes is Alfianello.....Brescia no Bresia....
Regards

Matteo

--- MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_msn.com> wrote:
> Title: The Stevens Point Journal
> City: Stevens Point, Wi
> Date: Saturday, May 26, 1883
> Page: 2
>
> An Aerolite
> The Rome correspondent of the St. James Gazette
> says that on the 16th
> of February some peasants working in a field near
> Breseia were startled by
> hearing a loud report like thunder. Looking up they
> saw the clouds torn
> open, and a large body followed by a train of bluish
> smoke hurtling through
> the air over their heads with the noise of an
> express train. The aerolite
> buried itself in an adjoining field, the fall
> causing a shock like that of
> earthquake. It was felt ten kilometres away, while
> the report was heard at
> Verona and Piacenze, many miles distant. When they
> had recovered from their
> fright the peasants hurried to the spot, and found a
> clean hole about three
> feet deep running in an oblique direction from
> north-northeast; and on
> digging down they came to a solid block, in the form
> of a truncated cone,
> weighing from four to five hundred pounds. The
> surface, which was still
> hot, and emitted a sulphurous smell, was covered
> with a greenish black
> crust, full of small holes, such as would be made by
> finger-tips in a soft
> paste, which may have given rise to the report that
> one of the fragments
> bore the impress of a hand. The proprieter of the
> clover-field in which the
> aerolite fell flew into a rage at his crops being
> trampled down by people
> coming to see it, and broke it up, when it was
> carried away piece meal. So
> he gained nothing but damage to his fields, while
> those who picked up the
> pieces found a ready sale for them, one man getting
> as much a seven thousand
> franes for a lump that weighed twenty-five pounds.
> On a subsequent search by
> Prof. Bombicci, of Bologha, several pieces of
> scorize, apparently detached
> from the aerolite in its flight, were found in the
> neighborhood.
>
> (Mark note: Possibly the Alfianello meteorite fall,
> an L6 that fell February
> 16th, 1883 at 1500hrs. 228kg total weight found)
>
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