[meteorite-list] iron streams? Ed

[Michael Murray]

Hi Ed, and List
Just writing to let you know a couple things about your last email  
"iron streams".  I had that message come into my inbox, but it  
doesn't show on the met-list archives, at least not yet.  Likewise, I  
see messages on the archives from quite recent that never showed up  
in my inbox.  I'm sure there is a logical explanation for all this.   
I guess I was just wanting to point it out as a possible reason for  
you not getting a response (on list) to your questions.  If you did,  
they were off-list.  About the only way I have found to keep up with  
some of the current List threads is to refer to the archives every so  
often and compare those messages with what I get in the inbox.  Which  
is no problem.

On your topic of "iron streams", I can't offer anything worthwhile on  
the relationship between any of those falls, but here is something I  
saw in an old book titled: "An Encylopædia of Practical Inforfmation  
and Univeral Formulary for Every Occupation, Trade and Profession" by  
Robert Bradbury, M.D.   Print date of 1889.    I just thought this  
part was interesting and that you might like to see it.

"Aerolites, meteors, and falling stars all seem to have a common  
origin.  They are produced by small bodies--planets in miniature-- 
which are revolving, like our earth, about the sun.  Their orbit  
intersects the orbit of the earth, and if at any time they reach the  
point of crossing exactly with the earth, there is a collision.   
Their mass is so small, that the earth is not jarred any more than is  
a railway train by a pebble thrown against it.  These small bodies  
may come near the earth and drawn to its surface by the power of  
attraction, or they may simply sweep through the higher regions of  
the atmosphere, and there escape its grasp; or, finally, they may,  
under certain conditions, be compelled to revolve many times around  
the earth as satellites.  Indeed, a French astronomer estimates that  
there is one now circling about the earth at a distance of 5,000  
miles,  This companion of our moon has a period of three hours and  
twenty minutes.  The average velocity of these meteoric bodies or  
bolides, as they are frequently called, is thirty-six miles per  
second--much greater than that of Mercury itself."

Best regards,
Michael Murray
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