HUGE METEORITE
FALLS IN FULL VIEW AT QUETTA
WITH DEAFENING THUNDERCLAP.
(AUSTRALIAN - NETT ZZAUNB CABi,» ASSOCIATION.) (Received 27th February, 10 a.m.) ! DELHI, 26th February^ A tremendous meteorite has fallen at Quetta, weighing six tons, with a total volume of 500 cubic feet. It hit a baled straw-stack, penetrating 23 tightly packed layers at an angle of 45 degrees. Its arrival was observed in broad daylight. Its head is of slate-grey igneoas rock, heavy and marked with spots and veins of turquoise blue; then a quantity of jet black, highly glazed slag, resembling black volcanic lava, and finally a quantity of material resembling grey coke. Curiously, there are no traces of pure iron, which is a common feature of small meteorites. The meteorite appeared as a broad, straight ribbon of light, terminating in a deafening thunderclap.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 49, 27 February 1923, Page 7
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135HUGE METEORITE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 49, 27 February 1923, Page 7
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