[meteorite-list] NPA 06-16-1902 Henry Ward Finds Huge Mexican Meteorite

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Newark Advocate
City: Newark, Ohio
Date: Monday, June 16, 1902
Page: 7 (of 8)

HUGE METEOR IN MEXICO

Professor Henry Ward Estimates His Find to Weigh Fifty Tons.

     One of the largest meteorites known to science has been unearthed in 
western Mexico by Professor Henry A. Ward, formerly of Rochester, N. Y., now 
of Chicago, says the Philadelphia Press.  The first public announcement of 
his great find was made a few nights ago before the Rochester Historical 
society.  Professor Ward is well known as the founder of the Ward Natural 
Science establishment of Rochester.  His collection of meteorites is fourth 
in point of size in the world and contains many stones of great rarity and 
value.
     The discovery of this great meteorites is considered an important 
addition to the knowledge of these mysterious visitors.  The stone weighs 
over fifty tons, is over fifteen feet in length and lays buried by the 
terrific force of its own momentum nearly twenty feet in the earth.  It 
plowed into it like a steel shell from a thirteen inch gun.
     Professor Ward broke off small portions of the great mass as specimens 
for his collection, but left the remaining intact practically as he found 
it.  He said that the cost of transporting it to the seacoast, seventy-one 
miles away, would have been more than $50,000.  He succeeded in securing 
several fine photographs fo the stone which show it in all its huge, 
ungainly shape.

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