 Horse-shoe shape, greatly elongated. The outer edge very bright, then a narrow dark space, with a core of intense brilliancy, so vivid as to blind the eyes for a moment. It had not a comet-like train, but a sort of flowing jacket of flame. Detonations...  Bulletin - Seite 781916Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1875 - 1140 Seiten
...a moment. It had not a comet-like train, but a sort of flowing jacket of flame. Detonations heard, so violent as to shake the earth, and to jar the windows like the shock of an earthquake." At Iowa Agricultural College, Prof. Macomber writes : " In form it was like an immense rocket with... | |
 | 1877 - 800 Seiten
...moment. It had not a cometlike train, but a sort of flowing jacket of flame. Detonations were heard, so violent as to shake the earth, and to jar the windows like the shock of an earthquake." The products of the meteor's explosion were scattered over a tract about seven miles long and from... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1884 - 350 Seiten
...a moment. It had not a comet-like train, but a sort of flowing jacket of flame. Detonations heard, so violent as to shake the earth, and to jar the windows like the shock of an earthquake." At Iowa Agricultural College, Prof. Macomber writes : " In form it was like an immense rocket with... | |
 | Robert Thorne - 1889 - 538 Seiten
...described a« " without a tail, but having a sort of flowing jacket of Hume. Detonations were heard, so violent as to shake the earth and to jar the windows like the shock of an earthquake," as it fell, at about 10:30 o'clock PM, a few miles east of Marengo, Iowa. The ground for the space... | |
 | Robert Thorne - 1889 - 502 Seiten
...tail, but liaving a sort of flowing jacket of flame. Detonations were heard, so violent as to shake tue earth and to jar the windows like the shock of an earthquake," as it fell, at about 10:30 o'clock PM, a few miles east of Marengo, Iowa. The ground for the space... | |
 | Robert Thorne (M.A.) - 1890 - 646 Seiten
...described as " without a tail, but having a sort of flowing jacket of flame. Detonations were heard, so violent as to shake the earth and to jar the windows like the shock of an earthquake," as it fell, at about 10:30 o'clock I'M. , a few miles east of Marengo, Iowa. Tbe ground for the space... | |
 | United States National Museum, George Perkins Merrill - 1916 - 628 Seiten
...IOWA COTOTY, IOWA. Hoi. 11, SI, 483. Stone, Cgb. Complete individual with dull black, somewhat bby crust, weighing 322 grams; fragments, weighing 79...by JL Smith is as follows : Per cent Stony matter ------- '. --------------------------------- 81.64 Troilite _____________________________________________... | |
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