[meteorite-list] NPA 05-26-1881 Comets and Things, Kansas Meteor Wrong

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Ohio Democrat
City: New Philadelphia, Ohio
Date: Thursday, May 26, 1881
Page: 2 (of 4)

Comets and Things.

     Some time ago it was stated that, in the opinion of Professor Proctor, 
the appearance of another comet this year would justify apprehensions of a 
final mundane smash. Dr. Lewis Swift, of the Warner observatory, Rochester, 
must have heard this prophecy. Yea, what does he do on the 1st inst., at 2 
o'clock in the morning, but discover an entirely new comet, very bright and 
of fair size. A stranger it was evidently. Who knows with what designs upon 
the residence of mankind? There are those who, in spite of the exasperations 
and mental depressions of moving day, are still attached to this old 
familiar orb, and who will bear of he conduct of Dr. Swift with feelings of 
indignation. Why could he not go to bed like a sensible man and let the poor 
world have a chance?  If anything, disastrous comes of it, Dr. Swift will be 
held responsible, or would be only nobody will be left to hold him. Unless 
he can find out some way to persuading his comet to turn about and go the 
other way, we are not sure that the doctor is not liable to indictment at 
common law for malicious mischief. To add to our apprehensions, a tremendous 
aerolite fell the other night near Hunnewell, Kansas. It was large enough to 
cover a piece of ground twenty-five feet long and ten feet wide, and so hot 
that it scared the sod under it. What between comets and red hot aerolites 
of large size, the out look is rather lurid. Yet nobody will be much 
alarmed. If there is anything which every man believes in, it is that the 
world will last his time. - New York Tribune.

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Conradulation Cassini teams!

Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
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