[meteorite-list] NPA 01-03-1821 Possible Lixna Meteorite Fall article

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Republican Compiler
City: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Date: Wednesday, January 3, 1821
Page 4 (of 4)

St. Petersburg Sept. 18.

     A meteoric stone weighing 40lbs. fell from the air during a violent 
thunder storm, at six o'clock in the evening, on the 12th of July, in the 
Village of Listen, in the circle of Dunaburg, and the government of Witebsk. 
  It penetrated a foot and an half in the ground, whence it was dug by the 
peasants, and has been chemically analyzed by Dr. Eichler.  A magnetic 
needle was pretty quickly attracted, as well in an horizontal as in a 
vertical direction, by all points of its surface, but it did not at all 
attract iron filings.

(end)

The article may refer to the Lixna meteorite, although the weight of Lixna 
(in the Catalogue of Meteorites and A to Z: Second Edition) appears to be 
different.

A to Z: Second Edition has:

Lizna H4 vnd; Dvinsk, Latvia; 1820 July 12 1730hrs;* 1 @ 5.213kg.

(Anyone has a solid and outlined typed keys, please e-mail them to me. I 
could also use other keys like the short +/-, and other related meteorite 
related keys.  Keys is likely the wrong word to use, but I can't think of 
the correct or better).

Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
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PDF copy of this article, and most I post (and about 1/2 of those on my 
website), is available upon e-mail request.

The NPA in the subject line, stands for Newspaper Article. The old list 
server allowed us a search feature the current does not, so I guess this is 
more for quick reference and shortening the subject line now.