The Red Cloud chief., 1889-01-11
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% Prof n. Hensoldt vho tAsd
about metsors and Who illues
I his subject vith . double ha6d-
shooting stars. With sectious Of
pame. and With parinGs from me-
I'll - that vsr0 exhibited under the
mid scope Among the sections vas
one bpm the three hundred pound
specimen found in fayesse County.
Tex. on the land Of bohemian farm
er. who thought that IL marked the
place where the fugitive General Santa
Anna buried his treasure. Only four
hundred and thirty falls OF me,eors are
recorded. though on some OF these oc-
casions hundreds. perhaps thousands.
Of pieces fell. The earth gains in
weight thousands Of tons every year
through this meteoric ~accre,ion. bu,
most Of the meteors plvnge into the
e and are lost. !, is indeed possible,
said Prof. HensOldt. that the earth IL
sell is merely An aggregation OF
meteors. gathered upon a nucleus
OF cOsmic dust and smassed in
countless ages as the planet swept
around the sun and moved forward
with that luminary through cold and
painless oceans OF space toward some
goal that we can not know. Certain
il il that the center OF the earth is
formed Of heavier materials than the
crust. the specific gravity Of minerals
.nd rocks that we are acquainted with
being insufficient to accoun, FOR the
weight Of the whole earth. aud tina,
this core or bulk is metallic Is in
dictated in the fact that erupiiye rocks
thrown up contain metal. the basal, OF
DiskO. Of the coast Of Greenland.
Astounding in masses OF pure iron. The
oldest known meteor is one that was
found on a prehistoric altar erected 10y
Indians in the Little Miami valley.
The weight and size Of the masses
range from that of n sand grain 10
blocks Of metal 800 pounds in weight.
One that fell in Africa tore up the soil
for a mile. Stone is seldom found in
| meteOrites. and GU; OF all hat have
been discovered not more than twenty
| contain no iron. The fall through an in
creasingly dense atmosphere. h a may
| extend anywhere from four To four hun
dred miles around the earth. develops
Q friction that heats the surface OF the
meteor red hot. but this hea; Is devel-
| Oped So quickly that the interior is not
. affected. Some that were broken open
directly after alighiing we're too no, Ia
touch externally. while at the center
they were ice cold with the external
night and chill Of space. In n speci-
men found in Germany there are in
closures OF quartz containing cells
partly filed with liquified carbon:c acid.
with bubbles in them that ceasclessly
dart from side TO side under the inf!u-
ence Of varying temperature. Meieors
have been ascribed 10 volcanic erup-
| held that they were tossed put OF vol.
canoes but space Is too rich IN them
TO make this probable. and il Is mor
likely that they are fragments Of a
broken planet. or were elected in vio-
! lent ruptures that hurled them beyond
the reach OF gravitatiOn. An Austrian
scientist gained temporary fame by
pretending 10 discover fossil remains
In a meteOrite. but. though his discOv-
cries came 10 nothing. IL is barely pos
sible that such remains. nay. that living
bacteria. may yet by found in them.
Indeed. il Is not wholly Impossible
that the earth may have received its
first SEED Of life from a metcor.-N. Y.
| Times.