Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Blazes Over England

[Alan Pickup]

Ron Baalke forwards...


METEORITE HAS MAN SEEING STARS
By Michael Alexander
The Courier (United Kingdom)
January 31, 2003

AN EAST NEUK man was still rubbing his eyes in bewilderment
yesterday after seeing what he reckons was a meteorite
blazing across the early morning sky.

The man was walking his dog near Kingsbarns around 7am on
Tuesday when a bright object arced across the sky at great
speed, creating enough light, he said, to illuminate his dog
in the dawn gloom.

The man told The Courier, It seemed to come from miles up.
It came across the sky and I could see my dog with the
light. I took a sighting through the trees to give me a
rough line of where I might search. I just wondered if
anyone else had reported anything?

...

In fact, the East Neuk is an area of eastern Fife, Scotland (not 
England), across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. Kingsbarns is a 
village about 10 km ESE of St Andrews, the Home of Golf. The Courier is 
a newspaper published a little further north in Dundee, across the Firth 
of Tay.

Alan
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Re: [meteorite-list] A curious reference

[Alan Pickup]

Francis Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Now here's a curious reference:

English Mechanic Killed by a Meteor 1880 06 04

Alas. My library does not have this. I could do an
interlibrary request, but if this has your curiosity
aroused too, and your library has back issues of the
English Mechanic, it will save time if you share a
synopsis.

Francis ( list),

I have unearthed the copy of the English Mechanic and World of Science 
No 793 for June 4, 1880, in the library of the Royal Observatory, 
Edinburgh. There is a one paragraph note (p316 of the volume) that 
reads:
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Killed by a Meteor -- The South Australian register for April 3 quotes 
the Littleton Times as stating that as David Meisenthaler, a 
well-known stockman of Whitestone township, was driving his cows to the 
barn about daylight a short time ago, he was struck by an aerolite and 
instantly killed. It appears as if the meteor had come from a direction 
a little west of south, and fell from an angle of about 60 degrees, for 
it first passed through a tall maple, cutting the limbs as clean as if 
it had been a cannon-ball, and then struck him apparently on or under 
the shoulder, passing clean through him obliquely from below the right 
shoulder to above the left hip, and buried itself about two feet in the 
soft black ground. The poor man's head and legs were injured, but the 
greater part of his body seems to have been crushed into the earth 
beneath the terrific aerolite, which was about the size of a common 
patent bucket, and apparently of a rough, round shape. It appeared to be 
formed of what is called iron pyrites.
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Alan
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