[meteorite-list] Why India gets so many meteorite falls, 12-1920 NPA

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 13 22:10:22 2005
Message-ID: <BAY104-F2887D90126C7A3E1621995B3D10_at_phx.gbl>

Hello list,

Why India gets so many meteorite falls you may ask? Because it is the
center of the universe. That of course also makes it the center of the
turtles back. Meteors at a wide variety of angles can hit India, where this
is less true for other spots on the turtle back.

Hmm...wonder what happens to India if the turtle rolls over..

Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticels.com



Paper: The Bridgeport Telegram
City: Bridgeport, Connecticut
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 1920
Page: 14

THREE MINUTES JOURNEY

     Until some years after Columbus discovered America - for he though he
really had reached India - even the wisest Europeans did not know "for a
fact" that the earth was round. Scientists were in strange controversy over
the question of whether or not a man who dared to sail straight out to sea
would in some miraculous manner be turned back or sail off the earth into
immeasurable space. Today most of us know the earth is round. But many a
resident in India cannot believe it.
     Those who live in the city of Delhi claim that they have
incontrovertible proof that the earth is flat. If you ask them for their
proof they will lead you to the foot of the towering monument, and proudly
point to it. "There!" they will say. "That is the center of the earth,
which is flat!"
     From a distance this monument, which towers above the temple of which
it is a part, looks like bundles of great sticks held together in bundles by
cords. At intervals there are balconies from which the favored may look out
upon the rest of the world, content in the belief that all the world is
revolving about him.
     The reason for this belief and the erection of this monument lies in a
story from the dim and distant past. It is said that many years ago every
one was disturbed over the question of just where the center of the earth
was. So Buddha and others in the mystic world beyond this life sent a
meteorite flying through the sky to fall upon the earth just at its center.
There -for the meteorite fell in the city of Delhi - the men of the day
erected this monument. They named it Kutub Minor. And there it stands as
proof to all believers that at the precise spot is the center of the world.
     Of course, no account is taken of all the other meteorites which have
fallen in India and in very other part of the globe.

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