This meteoric iron is sometimes so pure that it can at once be forged by the smith.
There exists a considerable literature respecting falls of meteors and of meteoric iron.
But now the head of the Thrawn Island staff had computed the place and time of arrival of a meteoric mass from space!
The killing of a giant squid had been preceded by a specific guess that linked it to meteoric falls in the Luzon Deep.
It was revealed--Terry had not suspected his own success--that in asking Horta to see that there was foreknowledge of a meteoric fall, Terry had arranged for the matter to be taken immediately to high Philippine Government officials.
That meant that he knew more about meteoric objects than anybody else in the world.
Such a collision surface, as I use the term, is presented to us during a meteoric display by the upper part of our atmosphere.
Amongst the first to advance the meteoric hypothesis of the origin and formation of the solar system was probably the late Mr. Richard A.
This objection is alike fatal to the meteoric theory as it is to all other theories which attribute the origin and source of the heat to gravitation.
Iron rusts or oxidises very readily, and, consequently, is rarely found in the metallic state in nature; such native iron as is found being generally of meteoric origin or imbedded in basalt and other igneous rocks.
Already she knew the chief facts in his meteoric career; and her vivid fancy must have brought before her many scenes in which he had had part.
Perhaps she stood too near him, perhaps she was too young to draw the lesson that we of to-day draw from his meteoric career.
She fell like a meteoric mass of molten metal upon the Bronx Park Zoölogical Society splashing her excoriating personality over everybody until everybody writhed.
This meteoric shower is over and so is the danger.
There are several good lists ofmeteoric showers to be obtained, which afford this information for those who care to pursue the matter more in detail.
Undoubtedly that dark shadow was a large meteoric stone.
I think it was Sir William Thomson who, in his effort to account for the origin of life upon this earth, stated that it might have come from some meteoric stone falling from some other planet having in it the germs of life.
What would you think of a farmer who would prepare his land and wait to have it planted by meteoric stones?
Nor is the belief in the meteoric and supernatural origin of celts confined to Europe.
Among the Eskimos[19] of modern times meteoric iron has been employed for making knives.
Belief in their Meteoric Origin — Regarded as Thunderbolts — Celt with Gnostic Inscriptions — Their Origin and Virtues — How regarded by the Greeks and Romans .
Where an excess of nickel is present, the meteoric iron cannot well be forged,[20] but Dana seems to be right in saying, as a general rule it is perfectly malleable.
There are some curious natural phenomena in this neighbourhood, due to the subterranean courses which the fissured limestone of the Jura affords to the meteoric waters.
He was much gratified to find his article on "Meteoric Astronomy" published in the report of the Liverpool meeting of the association in 1854.
That when the meteoric fragment of space dust strikes the air, the friction resulting from its velocity heats it to redness, fuses its surface, or even burns its very substance into ashes.
Native iron has nearly always proved to be of meteoric origin; and the specimens are here arranged in the order in which they have been found.
In humid regions the meteoric water dissolves the more soluble sodium salts near the surface of the rock and carries them out to the ocean, where they add to the saltness of the sea.
On the 2nd of June we were again alarmed at losing sight of the sun for a short time, and expected another meteoric visitation.
We failed absolutely to obtain water from the ether, so long as we were surrounded by these meteoric clouds.
From this point of view much of the meteoric dust still scattered throughout the solar system may be only the fragments left over in fashioning the sun and planets.
This gregarious tendency is made manifest not only by the fact that from time to time there are unusually abundant meteoric displays, but also by a striking peculiarity of their behavior at such times.
It is easy to think in this connection of meteoric dust or the stuff of which comets are made, for these seem to be scattered broadcast on every side of the solar system and may, perchance, extend out to the region of the nebulæ.
The radiant of a meteoric shower, showing also the paths of three meteors which do not belong to this shower.
If these were like the remains of the Biela comet, the shower might even be a very tame one; but a collision with a great comet would certainly produce a brilliant meteoric display if its head came in contact with the earth.
Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of sun and moon, as so many revelations from a supernatural source.
To his feature as to all other objects, the meteoric light imparted a new expression; or it might well be that the physician was not careful then, as at all other times, to hide the malevolence with which he looked upon his victim.
For some time after the occurrence, the 'meteoric phenomenon' was the principal topic of conversation in every circle.
For example, it has been suggested that meteoric bodies may have fallen into the sun and caused it suddenly to flare up, as it were.
Nevertheless, the disturbance of the sun by collision with meteoric matter can by no means be excluded as a possible cause of climatic variations.
As Mark had said, they were of meteoric origin, that is, a meteor had burst over that particular portion of the moon, and the chemical action had created the diamonds, which had fallen in a shower in the field.
I should say they were diamonds, probably meteoric diamonds, very rare and valuable.
The region has been famous for nearly twenty years on account of the masses of meteoric iron found scattered about and known as the ``Canyon Diablo'' meteorites.
These meteoricirons are scattered about the crater-hill, in concentric distribution, to a maximum distance of about five miles.
These meteoric diamonds are very small; nevertheless, they are true diamonds, resembling in many ways the little black gems produced by Moissan's method with the aid of the electric furnace.
On his return the government published a large volume of his observations, in which he undertook to show that the phenomenon was due to the reflection of sunlight from a ring of meteoric bodies encircling the earth.
These relatively small craters (small, however, only in a lunar sense, for many of them would appear gigantic on the earth) recall once more the theory of meteoric impact.
It is not so difficult, after all, then, to believe that there are immense collections of shadowy gases and meteoricdust whose presence is only manifested when they intercept the light coming from shining bodies behind them.
Such a meteoric flight would differ only in degree not kind from meteoric flights which are known to circle around our own sun.
It is generally believed that these were meteoric masses raised to fierce heat by frictional resistance.
If a very large comet followed by no denser a flight of meteors, but each meteoric mass much larger, fell directly upon the sun, it would not be the outskirts but the nucleus of the meteorictrain which would impinge upon him.
We know that comets and meteors are closely connected, every comet being probably (many certainly) attended by flights of meteoric masses.
I am not sure, indeed, that it can be definitely asserted that our sun has no meteoric appendages of the same nature as those which, if this theory be true, excite to intense periodic activity the sun round which they circle.
We have had evidence of the tremendous heat to which the sun's surface would be excited by the downfall of a shower of large meteoric masses.
