[meteorite-list] NPA 01-03-1821 Possible Lixna MeteoriteFallarticle

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Apr 22 22:31:29 2005
Message-ID: <001701c547ac$896ee3a0$6401a8c0_at_Dell>

"times of war effect falls and finds"
With all the comotion a war produces, it's not surprising that people might
overlook the roar, thunder and flash of a simple meteorite?!
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector_at_msn.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NPA 01-03-1821 Possible Lixna
MeteoriteFallarticle


> Martin asked "Mark, regarding the dates: Lixna fell on July 12, 1820; the
> St. Petersburg date is Sept. 18 (1820?), and the Paper date is January 3,
> 1821. Is my assumption correct that the Republic Compiler running a
> translated story from the St. Petersburg, Russia newspaper?"
>
> That is correct Martin. The newspaper has two news notes under the Sept.
> 18, St. Peterburg date. The other was not meteorite related so I left it
> off. In 1820-21 European newspapers came to America by boat (of course).
> Three months apprears to be normal news travel time, although I should
> sometime make a comparison in how fast meteorite news traveled.
>
> Getting a little off subject, I don't think times of war affect this much
> as there seem to me a lack of war time finds and falls. Or at least it
> seems to me there should be war time falls, as one would think people
> would be outside more often. I have had trouble locating Civil War era
> meteor and meteorite papers while the years around the Civil War, they
> seem more common. Then again as my archives grow perhaps I will find this
> to be untrue.
>
> Ok, now off to lunch....hmm...food,
>
> Mark
> www.meteoritearticles.com
>
>
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