[meteorite-list] NPA 04-12-1900 Allegan Meteorite at National Museum (Smithsonian)

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Daily Herald
City: Delphos, Ohio
Date: Thursday Evening, April 12, 1900
Page: 2 (of 4)

     The National Museum in Washington has come into possession of a 
meteorite which fell on Thomas hill, in Allegan, Michigan, on July 10, 1899. 
  The fall occurred about 8 o'clock in the morning.  Observers noticed a 
slight bluish tinge and a hazy appearance in the track of the descending 
stone.  Some report that they heard a rumbling and rushing noise.  The 
meteorite probably weighed originally seventy pounds, but it was shattered 
by its fall, the largest piece weighing sixty-two and a half pounds.  It 
buried itself eighteen inches in the ground, and was picked up while yet 
warm.  It was friable, and contains finely disseminated metallic iron, 
olivine in the form of black glass, and some undetermined sulphides.

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