[meteorite-list] ill need more

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:27:39 -0800
Message-ID: <C206260B.334A4%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Hi Jeffrey,
        Thanks!
        However, I was wondering what the NAME of this meteorite is....
"Zvezvan" is not listed in Meteorites A to Z.
        Michael


on 2/24/07 5:26 PM, Jeffrey Shallit at elvis at graceland.math.uwaterloo.ca
wrote:

> Ask and ye shall receive:
>
> "Little thing like a meteor fails to discourage bride"
> New York Times
> December 8 1929
> p. E1
>
> Special correspondence of the New York Times
>
> Belgrade, Nov. 20. - The heavens "blessed" a bride in unwonted
> and unwelcome form in the village of Zvezvan today. As the wedding
> party was nearing the church a meteor fell into one of the carriages
> immediately in front of that in which the bride was seated.
>
> One of the wedding guests, a man, was killed, the woman sitting
> opposite him was badly injured and the bride fainted. The crowd
> scattered in panic, but after a brief delay the marriage was
> duly solemnized.
>
> The meteor, which was glowing hot, measured forty centimeters in
> diameter.
>

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Received on Sat 24 Feb 2007 08:27:39 PM PST