More like seeds germinating than meteorites cooling, wouldn't you say?
Even as they looked, the metal table smoldered under the fiery meteorites and melted, and in a little while the meteorites themselves sizzled from view.
I am afraid some of the curious who have been gathering those meteorites so eagerly have paid a dear price for them.
He found upon trial that the meteorites in his possession were non-magnetic, or, practically so.
In the vicinity of the mountain about ten tons of meteorites have been found, varying in size from the fraction of an ounce to one thousand pounds or more.
Most of the meteorites were found by Mr. Volz, who searched diligently every foot of ground for miles around.
Since this revelation the search for diamonds in meteorites has occupied the attention of chemists all over the world.
Meteorites were found upon all sides of the mountain but they seemed to be thickest on the east side.
One of the meteorites slowly crumbled on top, the dust of disintegration hovering in a compact mass about the body.
The great cluster of meteorites was moving in the same direction as ourselves now; Kincaide's change of course had settled that matter nicely.
We were in the midst of a veritable swarm of meteorites of all sizes.
The great field of meteorites was now below and ahead of us.
The iron meteorites they will take care of effectively, but the conglomerate nature of the stonymeteorites does not make them particularly susceptible to the disintegrating rays.
I have altered our course as much as I dared and am reducing speed at emergency rate, but this is the largest swarm of meteorites I have ever seen.
There are troubles in space, too," I said dryly, thinking of the swarm of meteorites that had come so close to wiping the Ertak off the records of the Service.
But, comparatively speaking, these satellite meteorites are few.
These latter theories imply that the meteorites in immense quantities are revolving around the earth, and that occasionally they become entangled in her atmosphere and fall to the surface.
You told me, a while ago, that you have the fall ofmeteorites on your globe.
And still," quickly responded Thorwald, "the discovery of diamonds in meteorites was a valuable link in the chain of evidence which you are putting together.
Our latest study points to the conclusion that they are of cometary origin, and, as comets have been known to divide, some scientists believe the meteorites are fragments of exploded comets.
If we can discover whence meteorites come, and of what they are composed, I think you will agree with me that they furnish valuable testimony in our inquiry.
But we don't havemeteorites now," replied Thorwald.
That is an exceedingly significant fact," said Thorwald; "and now do you not see how strongly the meteorites confirm the story of the spectrum, and how everything tells us the universe is one in its physical structure?
The meteorites do indeed come from the regions of space, and if they have any story to tell it is a story of those distant parts of the universe about which any testimony is valuable.
I fear you will be disappointed," I said, "for what I have rashly called a story is only a fancy founded on the idea that the meteorites were at some time shot out of the volcanoes of the moon.
His idea was that meteorites might be falling in a heavy shower upon the planet, or that a huge volcanic explosion was in progress.
He approached the mass, surprised at the size and more so at the shape, since most meteorites are rounded more or less completely.
The result of this cannonading was the falling of a large number of stony meteorites upon an area of about 10 miles long by 3 wide.
It is abundant in the sun; meteorites contain from more than ten to eighty or ninety per cent.
Many meteoritesconsist of metallic iron mixed with nickel and manganese, and in Greenland a volcanic dyke or ledge of metallic iron is known to exist.
The collection contains eight stony meteorites that have fallen in the British Islands; but the Rowton meteorite is only the second iron meteorite known as having been found in Great Britain.
It is well to emphasise the contrast between the lunar theory of meteorites (which we think improbable) and the terrestrial theory (which appears to be probable).
Showers of shooting stars have, therefore, an intimate connection with comets, but it is doubtful whether meteoriteshave any connection with comets.
It is, however, to be noticed that meteorites are said to have fallen on several other occasions at the end of November.
The inference is that the iron meteorites are much less frequent than the stony ones.
If this view be true, then there must be hosts of meteorites traversing space in elliptic orbits around the sun.
There is no reason to connect meteoriteswith these showers, and it is, therefore, doubtful whether we should connect meteorites with comets.
It has been suggested that a volcano placed on one of the minor planets might be quite powerful enough to start the meteorites on a long ramble through space until the chapter of accidents brought them into collision with the earth.
With reference to the origin of meteorites it is difficult to speak with any great degree of confidence.
We admit fully the difficulties of the view that the meteorites have really come from the earth; but they must have some origin, and it is reasonable to indicate the source which seems to have most probability in its favour.
A missile thus projected from the moon could undoubtedly fall on the earth, and it is not impossible that some of the meteorites may really have come from this source.
Assuming, therefore, with Tschermak, that many meteorites have had a volcanic origin on some considerable celestial body, we are led to agree with those who think that most probably that body is the earth.
It is thus plain that if the meteorites have really been driven from some planet of the solar system, large or small, the volcano must, from one cause or another, have been a very powerful one.
Ten pages from here, and Leverrier and the "planet Vulcan" will have fallen from your mind, like beans from a magnet, or like data of cold meteorites from the mind of a Thomson.
We accept that the icy meteorites of Dhurmsalla could have fallen with no great velocity, but the sound from them was tremendous.
Meteorites are usually covered with a black crust, more or less scale-like.
Whatever the thing could have been, my impression is of tremendousness, or of bulk many times that of all meteorites in all museums combined: also of relative slowness, or of long warning of approach.
Meteorites that plunge through these lakes, on their way to this earth.
There are so many storms and so many meteors and meteorites that it would be extraordinary if there were no concurrences.
The mergers of ball-lightning and meteorites are not resistances to us: our data are of enormous bodies.
Of all meteorites in museums, very few were seen to fall.
In this way, by the generosity and self-denial of donors, by the somewhat difficult method of exchange, and by purchase, it has been possible to get together the fine representative collection of meteorites now in the British Museum.
Casts of most of the followingmeteorites are exhibited in the lower parts of the cases:-- Akburpur.
Of these the Alais and Cold Bokkeveld meteorites [Sidenote: Pane 4n.
Meteorites may be conveniently arranged in three classes, which pass more or less gradually into each other: the first includes all those which consist mainly of iron, and have, therefore, been called by Prof.
Much light is thrown on the history of meteorites by the discovery of a relationship with shooting stars and comets.
These are among the largest meteorites ever found, and it is an interesting fact that so many were found in Greenland.
The following excerpt from the American Museum Meteoric Guide will make the matter clear: "The iron of meteoritesis always alloyed with from six to twenty per cent of nickel.
In such orbits, comets are believed by astronomers to be formed by a concentrated swarm of incandescent meteorites rendered luminous by collisions.
But this hypothesis of innumerable collisions between meteorites travelling in the same orbits does not appear very plausible.
Cosmical space, according to Mr. Lockyer, is filled with meteorites of various sizes, flying in many directions with enormous velocities and moving in certain orbits like larger bodies.
The increasing approximation and condensation of the meteorites is seen in different classes of stars.
We may as well suppose its materials to have been a swarm of meteorites as to suppose a chaotic fire-mist.
The next step in the hypothesis is that in the extreme approximation and condensation of the meteorites a degree of heat is generated which converts the whole into a mass of incandescent vapor, at a "transcendental temperature.
The apparent magnitudes of thesemeteorites are widely different, and also their brilliancy.
The stars above flashed as insolently as ever and their piercing shafts of light were of a steel-blue color; the meteorites still streaked their orange-red trails across the curtain of black.
Never had the moon shed such velvety, silvery light; never had the stars flashed with such supernatural brightness; nor had meteorites drawn such lines of fiery brilliance across the heavens.
That air does somehow get up so high there can be little doubt, as is satisfactorily proved by the burning of meteoriteswhen they come into our atmosphere at heights said to be more than 300 miles.
How the earth could be made out of cosmic matter, meteorites or meteors.
This idea will assist physicists in forming their theory of a plenum of meteorites or meteoric matter, if such they choose to call it.
The danger from meteoriteshas been partly discounted in one scientific study.
Radar or other devices may have to be developed to detect approaching meteorites at a distance and automatically change a space ship's course.
The result of this cannonading was the falling of a large number of stony meteorites upon an area of about ten miles long by three wide.
With respect to meteorites the same author remarks that "like the moon, they are probably satellites of the earth; but being very small, they are liable to extraordinary perturbations, and hence strike the earth in many directions.
The observed velocities ofmeteorites are incompatible with the theory of their lunar origin.
The theory which ascribes a solar origin to meteorites is not of recent date, having been held by Diogenes Laertius and other ancient Greeks.
But if so, they must have gradually ceased to fall, as space became cleared of their presence, and we would now find a thick covering of meteorites on the earth's cooled surface.
It might be supposed, however, that the resistance of the air at such altitudes would not develop a sufficient amount of heat to givemeteorites their brilliant appearance.
Or they might have been struck by one of the still inconveniently numerousmeteorites which would mean, at the very least, being marooned.
But the comet swarm, coming out of the mysterious depths of space, had released to the solar system such swarms of meteorites as to make interplanetary travel in the spatial belt between Mars and Jupiter utterly suicidal.
The Belt Companies had already been operating out here for a long time before the stony meteorites were mined commercially.
Micro-meteorites soften the contours of the rock a little over the millions of millennia, but not much, since the debris in the Belt all has roughly the same velocity.
We can make a small bar in that border-line condition and focus it upon the earth, and we can use that repulsive property to ward off any meteorites which may come too close to us.
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.
I daresay these meteorites are swarming about the sun like midges about a lamp," said I.
A summary of the results of carbon analyses on large numbers of meteorites is given in table I ([ref.
Carbon has been detected in all meteorites analyzed; however, both the amount and forms present vary considerably.
Photographs of meteor trails are used for scientific study, and attempts are made to track and recover meteorites for examination for traces of organic material of extraterrestrial origin.
Meteorites provide a more representative sample of average planetary matter than the highly differentiated crust of the Earth.
A comparison between the photographs of the organized elements observed in the Orgueil and Ivuna meteorites and the synthetic proteinoid microspheres observed by Fox ([ref.
The study of meteorites has generated an astonishing diversity of hypotheses.
Cosmic dust and meteoritesare two classes of material bodies that reach the Earth from outer space.
Most meteorites possess only traces of carbon, and studies of this carbon indicate that it is composed largely of graphite, cohenite, and moissanite, with some diamond.
Another explanation is given by the meteoritic hypothesis, according to which, out of the swarms of meteoriteswith which the regions of space are crowded, the sun and planets have been formed by gradual accretion.
For many years the only available evidence on this point was derived from the meteorites (q.
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