In the case of the fall of meteoric stones, which occasionally occur, it has sometimes been noticed that the sound caused by the explosion of the meteorite, or its passage through the air, is heard before the meteorite is seen to fall.
The mineral known as periodot is frequently found in meteoric stones, but it is also a constituent of terrestrial rocks.
Weinhand that they had found fossil sponges, corals, and crinoids in meteoric stones!
It does not follow that all diamonds had their origin in meteoric stones.
The third is a description, in chronological order, of the most important falls of meteoric stones, together with the phenomena attending their descent.
Geographical Distribution of Meteoric Stones--Do Aerolitic Falls occur more frequently by Day than by Night?
The number of cometoids thus encountered in the form of meteoric stones, fire-balls, and shooting-stars in the course of a single year amounts to many millions.
As I have said, we do not even know that they are approximately spherical; and if they are of the nature of meteoric stones, they are mere crude and irregularly crystallized masses of metal and earth.
Similar displays since that time have been frequently witnessed;--indeed scarcely a year passes without the fall of meteoric stones in some part of the earth, either singly or in clusters.
When, however, as is sometimes the case, they contain a considerable quantity of solid matter, they reach the earth's surface as meteoric stones.
Over Barbotan a loud explosion was heard, which was followed by a shower of meteoric stones of various magnitudes.
According to Livy, a number of meteoric stones fell on the Alban Hill, near Rome, about the year 654 B.
It is certain that the earth is still growing a little from the fall of meteoric stones, and that part of the sun's heat comes from meteoric fuel.
They seem to consist partly of glowing vapours, especially hydrogen, and partly of meteoric stones.
Moreover, a number of comets and swarms of meteoric stones or meteorites are circulating round the sun in eccentric paths, which cross those of the planets.
We refer to the black fused crust or rind with which the surface of meteoric stones is covered.
When we come to examine the composition of meteoric stones, we find in various specimens a great diversity in their chemical structure.
The first fall of meteoric stoneson record appears to have taken place about the year 654: B.
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