[meteorite-list] Rochester Meteorite - 12-28-1876 - Elyria, Ohio

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Elyria Constitution
City: Elyria, Ohio
Date: Thursday, December 28, 1876
Page: 3 (of 4)

Under "TOWN AND COUNTY." and "DAILY CHRONICLE."

     Friday. - Last night a little after 9 o'clock a shower of brilliant 
meteors passed over this place in an easterly direction.  There were 
thirty-four large ones and four smaller ones.  They were about four minutes 
in passing the horizon and when they had disappeared a distinct explosion, 
something like distant thunder was heard in the west, which was evidently 
caused by the meteor as it exploded, and what was seen at this point were 
the fragments produced by the explosion.  Those who saw it all agree that it 
was one of the grandest sights they ever witnessed.

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Mark Bostick
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