[meteorite-list] NPA 05-14-1860 New Concord Meteorite, Earthquake

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Compiler
City: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Date: Monday, May 14, 1860
Page: 1 (of 8)

     Remarkable Earthquake in Ohio. - The inhabitants of the counties of 
Guernsey, Belmont and Harrison, in Eastern Ohio, were exceedingly excited 
and terrified on Tuesday week by the severe shock of an earthquake which 
lasted for thirty minutes.  At Cambridge, Barnesville and other towns, the 
citizens flocked together in the streets and fervently implored divine 
protection.  The shock was accompanied by a shower of supposed meteoric 
stones, four of which weighing from forty to sixty pounds each fell on the 
track of the Central Ohio Railroad, near Concord, imbedding themselves about 
two feet in the earth.

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Mark Note: This article refers to the New Concord meteorite.  This meteorite 
fell in Muskingum county, Ohio on May 1, 1860 at 12:45 p.m.  More then 
thirty pieces, 227 kg., of this L6 stone chondrite was recovered. 
(Reference: Meteorites A to Z: Second Edition).

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