. Guide leaflet. as easierto believe that Yankee professors wouldlie than to believe that stones would fallfrom heaven. The brilliant display in November,1833, of shooting stars, later known asI^onid meteors, associated with Templescomet, brought forth a decided change in the general attitude of the public inregard to meteoric phenomena. With this change in attitude it is inter-esting to note by centuries the record ofmeteorites which were seen to fall andportions of which have been to G. P. Merrills 1929 list of482 falls, we note that for the 15th and16th Centuries there i
. Guide leaflet. as easierto believe that Yankee professors wouldlie than to believe that stones would fallfrom heaven. The brilliant display in November,1833, of shooting stars, later known asI^onid meteors, associated with Templescomet, brought forth a decided change in the general attitude of the public inregard to meteoric phenomena. With this change in attitude it is inter-esting to note by centuries the record ofmeteorites which were seen to fall andportions of which have been to G. P. Merrills 1929 list of482 falls, we note that for the 15th and16th Centuries there is one each; for the17th, three; for the 18th, nineteen; forthe 19th, three hundred forty-two; andfor the first third of the 20th, one hundredsixteen. This shows quite conclusivelythat during the centuries w^hen meteoriteswere regarded as being supernatural, fewspecimens were found, and that duringthe 19th and 20th Centuries, when theyreceived attention, many were recovered. Out of a total of 482 seen to fall, 458. A GREAT BOLIDE OR METEOR, AS SEEN THROUGH A TELESCOPE Photograph by Josef Klepesta at the Prajjiie Observatory, September 12, 1923. The white spots are stars. The bolide is the white streak of varying width, ft crossed the field of the camera as the great. spiral nebiiliF in .dromeda (center) was being photographed coMKTs, Mtrrnoiis, axd Mi/riiourriis ir> SHOOTING STAK AS SEEN A TELESCOPE Nehuhr in Cy^mis to therijz;ht. The stars show aswhite (lots. Ihoto^raphby K. E. Barnard, VerkesObservatory, Wisconsin,July is, HKM) represent stony me-teorites, 5 stony-irons, and 22 nickel-iron meteorites arethus seen to fall morefrequently than theiron meteorites, ofwhich 350 had beenfound to 1929, butonly 22 seen to number of fallsand finds known in1929 was 832. Thelist has been consid-erably increased dur-ing the following fouryears. The AmericanMuseum Collectionof meteorites (March,1933) contained 2640specimens, represent-ing 569 falls and
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