of a F;unoti% Meteor. meeting of the astronomies] de of the State Historical Society, St. Paul a few days ago, on cx- interesting paper on meteorites read by Professor E. ,T. Thompson, State University. The following ract from this paper relates to a 1110- rite that fell across the southern line Minnesota, near the town of Jackson: less day. At 5 o'clock in tlmaTer- in full sun shine, this meteorite through the air, exploded and fell Viii the town of Krteville, Emmet county, W lowa, about ten or twelve miles below ® the southern boundary of Jackson county, Ic essentially in gi\ lug the with its explosion and sc accompanying its flight rumbling, cracking, crash hat produced by a. train of long bridge; then came a rt, immediately followed reports in quick sueces tso explosive or loud as •uck the ground 111 separ. ,ether with smaller i'rag [over an area of three or , 0 large pieces fell about , in a direct northwest angle of nearly eighty de pression of those who saw ic air just at the time of the that still another large ir distant. This has been e recent finding of a piece mid red and fifty pounds lied Robert Piet/.. mass, weighing four lmn y pounds, now at Keokuk, cd a hard blue clay soil ater to the depth of twelve s weighing one hundred ounds, now at the State on a dry grassy knoll and the depth of five and a w rods from the largest d a fragment weighing I stdiopl-boy picked up a ing three pounds a little from the largest. Those reat body of the meteorite no appreciable difference II the explosion and the earth. The form of all ;e that of rudely detached luarry, or ejected from the ilcano. The mass in the university has an irreg outline, about 15 or 18 11 first obtained was cov meteorites, with a black crust. The largest mass and bristles with points s iron. Professor Ileiu <va State University pro lore valuable of the two ut full a liaises will prob lem to be one and the nickeliferous iron seemed in the largest, the crystal re far more numerous in rvcjjs saw the large mas uck the ground, and state >od and gravel and dirt t near, and for a moment flying stones aud largest struck ouse, the siihrfk'f within rods of a f the inmates. The lan. d old lady sitting by the time in a measure des cht: "My soul! 1 thought I lorkl had come, and I fell I waited." The concussion I passage through the air I uit glass was broken in I and in many instances I working in the field their mpictely stunned with "I should judge its height to have been, before the reports were heard, from thirty to forty miles. As the time of the ex plosion it must have been very much less. From a partial and yet unfinished compu tation it 3s thought its velocity was be tween two ami and four miles per second." —AY. Paul Minnisotiy Pit ma r Press. HWIIWWI'I II III! 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