[meteorite-list] NP Article, 11-1817
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:27:44 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV1008iMnUKBJ0001784e_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_004D_01C3A436.71D9BC30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paper: Edinburgh Advertiser =20 City: Edinburgh, Midlothian =20 Date: Friday, November 14, 1817 Another Stone fallen from the Skies! - As to this there can be no doubt; = it was in Paris that the phenomenon was seen. On the 3d inst. before day-= break, says a Paris Journal, a stone of the weight of 10 lbs. fell from t= he sky into the court of the Swedish Hotel, in the street de Richelieu (?= ); It awoke by its noise all the persons who lodged in that Hotel. It bur= ied two paving stones three inches deep; and, in short, spread in the cou= rt a sulphureous smell difficult to be endured. We are assured that this = sky-stone has been submitted to the learned men of the Institute to be an= alyzed, in order to convince the most incredulous. (Mark note: I can not find any reference to this meteorite in Meteorites = A to Z). Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor= and meteorite articles. ------=_NextPart_001_004D_01C3A436.71D9BC30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><B><FONT size=3D2> = <P>Paper: Edinburgh Advertiser </P> <P>City: Edinburgh, Midlothian </P> <= P>Date: Friday, November 14, 1817</P> <P> </P></B> <P>Another Stone = fallen from the Skies! - As to this there can be no doubt; it was in Pari= s that the phenomenon was seen. On the 3d inst. before day-break, says a = Paris Journal, a stone of the weight of 10 lbs. fell from the sky into th= e court of the Swedish Hotel, in the street de Richelieu (?); It awoke by= its noise all the persons who lodged in that Hotel. It buried two paving= stones three inches deep; and, in short, spread in the court a sulphureo= us smell difficult to be endured. We are assured that this sky-stone has = been submitted to the learned men of the Institute to be analyzed, in ord= er to convince the most incredulous.</P> <P></FONT> </P> <P>(Mark no= te: I can not find any reference to this meteorite in Meteorites A to Z).= </P> <DIV><BR><BR>Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line= archive of meteor and meteorite articles.</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_004D_01C3A436.71D9BC30-- Received on Thu 06 Nov 2003 08:20:24 AM PST |
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