Before proceeding to state the information gathered concerning this meteorite, Captain Tyler gave some interesting data with regard to meteorites in general. He observed that meteorites travel in space at speeds incomparable with the speed of any body known to the earth, The projectile of a modern gun has an initial velocity approach: ing half a mile a second, but meteo rites have a velocity of from seven teen to eighty miles a second. With this immense speed against the resistance of the atmosphere, the meteorite becomes incandescent, and if its size be not too great, is completely consumed by the immense heat generated. In the great showers of meteorites which occur every thirty-three years, when the earth passes through the great cluster of meteo: rites known as the Leonides, tens of tens of thousands if not millions enter our atmosphere, but not more than one or two have been known to reach the surface of the earth. Small fragments have been observed to fall, but there is clear evid-
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