[meteorite-list] wonder and awe

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Sep 7 20:59:59 2006
Message-ID: <00ce01c6d2e2$16a1c460$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

yea!
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de>
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 8:39 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] wonder and awe


> Meteorites, as Humboldt pointed out, are the only medium with which the
> inhabitants of the earth are brought into interplanetary and also into
> interstellar space. They have, therefore, a fascination for the ordinary
> man's mind which nothing terrestrial can have.
> A survey of the heavens, with the naked eye or by the aid of a telescope,
> fills our minds with wonder and awe, mingled with intense curiosity as to
> what the brilliant celestial bodies may possibly mean.
> But when the meteoric globe sails across the sky and falls as a solid
> mass,
> our awe is none the less, but our curiosity is largely satisfied; the
> meteorite has told us one of the tales of other worlds than ours.
>
> Henry A.
> Ward
>
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