A fall of about a dozen aerolites occurred at Sienna, Tuscany.
This terrific display is said to have lasted two hours, and 1200 aerolites were subsequently found.
These memoirs establish the fact that the aerolites of the Pultusk shower entered our atmosphere as a swarm or cluster of distinct meteoric masses.
July, 1860, a shower of aerolites fell at Dhurmsala, in India.
Although numerous instances of the fall of aerolites had been recorded, some of them apparently well authenticated, the occurrence long appeared too marvelous and improbable to gain credence with scientific men.
But, besides these, other masses have been found so closely similar in structure to aerolites whose descent has been witnessed, as to leave no doubt in regard to their origin.
But besides these, other masses have been found so closely similar in structure to aerolites whose descent has been observed, as to leave no doubt in regard to their origin.
This is the most ancient fall of aerolites on record.
At night the number of observers is incomparably less; and hence many aerolites escape detection.
At the date of these calculations, however, the true velocity of aerolites had not been in any case satisfactorily determined.
That this dust was meteoric can scarcely be doubted, since at the same time a shower of aerolites fell at Cutro, in Calabria, attended by two loud reports resembling thunder.
It is highly probable that aerolites and shooting-stars are derived either from rings thrown off in the planes of the solar or planetary equators, or from streams of nebulous matter drawn into the solar system by the sun's attraction.
We answer, the number of aerolites seen to fall in a country depends upon the number of its inhabitants.
Even now, in this age of science and universal knowledge, aerolites can scarcely be regarded without a certain degree of dread.
In later years the shower of aerolites which fell in April, 1803, at L'Aigle, in Normandy, may well rank as the most extraordinary descent upon record.
Biot has found in the astronomical section of some of the most ancient annals of that empire sixteen falls of aerolites recorded as having taken place between the years 644 B.
Professor Shepard, in Silliman's American Journal, has remarked that "fall ofaerolites is confined principally to two zones; the one belonging to America is bounded by 33 deg.
Several instances have at different times occurred in which stones like aerolites have been found, and prized accordingly, until their real nature was demonstrated by the aid of chemical analysis.
In other words, the large number of aerolites which have been known to fall within a certain limited area has been contrasted with the apparent rarity of such occurrences beyond these limits.
Native iron, that is metallic iron in a natural state, is eminently rare; except in aerolites it is scarcely ever found.
I think the aerolites are as interesting as anything in this department, and one piece of pure iron, laid against the wall of the room, weighs about fourteen hundred pounds.
If theseaerolites are bits of other planets, how happen they to be always iron?
Chladni states that an Italian physicist, Paolo Maria Terzago, on the occasion of the fall of an aerolite at Milan, in 1660, by which a Franciscan monk was killed, was the first who surmised that aerolites were of selenic origin.
Masses of iron and nickel, having all the appearance of aerolites or meteoric stones, have been discovered in Siberia, at a depth of ten metres below the surface of the earth.
The fall ofaerolites in bright sunshine, and when the moon’s disc was invisible, probably led to the idea of sun-stones.
Diogenes Laertius thought aerolites came from the sun; but Pliny derides this theory.
Herein we find several curious remarks on aerolites and earthquakes, and the successive changes of position which the land and sea have undergone.
The chemists were disposed to believe that the aerolites had been formed by the combination of elements floating in the upper atmosphere.
But the theory of telluric origin of aerolites was by no means so easily disposed of.
Considering the situation of these masses, with the details of their chemical analysis, the presumption is clearly warranted that they owe their origin to the same causes that have formed and projected the aerolites to the surface.
Thus aerolites seem to be broken-up fragments from the interior parts of globes like our own.
Aerolites come singly and unexpectedly, falling actually to earth on land or sea.
There are hundreds of accounts of the falls of aerolitesduring the past 2,500 years.
The aerolites that reach the surface are not always exploded into very small fragments, but every now and then quite large masses remain intact.
We may therefore conclude, that numberless aerolites must have fallen into the sea, between Africa and South America, westward of the Cape Verd Islands.
This extremely remarkable circumstance has led to the conclusion, that falling-stars are not aerolites which, after having hovered a long time in space, unite on accidentally entering into our atmosphere, and fall towards the earth.
Falls of aerolites are less rare with us than hail in the torrid zone, notwithstanding the frequency of thunder-storms at the elevation of three hundred toises above the level of the sea.
There must be other things besides aerolites that wander from their own spheres to ours; and when we speak of celestial sweetness or beauty, we may be nearer the literal truth than we dream.
It must have been very peculiar, if in all aerolites not wedge-shaped, no such phenomenon had ever been observed.
The evidence of science, however, seldom reaches the ear of the vulgar; and it would be difficult to persuade the populace that aerolites do not fall from the sky.
Neither fact can be proved; and the descent of aerolites at present remains a mystery.
Aerolites or Stony Meteorites occur more abundantly than iron or stony-iron types, and they are classified into many divisions and subdivisions according to their composition.
They can be classified into three groups, Aerolites or Stony Meteorites, Siderolites or Stony-iron Meteorites, and Siderites or Iron Meteorites.
Sidenote: Few aerolites are known which have not been seen to fall.
In mineral composition chondritic aerolites approximate more or less to terrestrial lherzolites.
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