General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . tons, the largest meteorite in any mu-seum, to thousands of small specimens likegravel comprising the study collection. .Meteorites are those extra-terrestrialbodies which fall to the earth from outerspace. They consist of stone or metal, or acombination of these materials, and vary insize from dust particles to immense massesweighing tons. When passing through theearths atmosphere these celestial objects areusually accompanied by manifestations oflight and sound, and are known as shootingstars, meteors or fireba
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . tons, the largest meteorite in any mu-seum, to thousands of small specimens likegravel comprising the study collection. .Meteorites are those extra-terrestrialbodies which fall to the earth from outerspace. They consist of stone or metal, or acombination of these materials, and vary insize from dust particles to immense massesweighing tons. When passing through theearths atmosphere these celestial objects areusually accompanied by manifestations oflight and sound, and are known as shootingstars, meteors or fireballs. The term meteoriteis applied only after they reach the groundand form a part of the earth. Also in the first floor corridor is a remark-able collection of sun-dials, compasses, andastronomical instruments. This fine loan col-lection covers almost the entire range fromancient Chinese instruments through the finemetal instruments made in the middle-cen-turies in France and Germany, down to thevery accurate compasses which play such animportant part in modern navigation. C3. ? = >^>
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