FALL OF METEORITE
CAMPER'S CLOSE CALL TENT NARROWLY MISSED [from our own correspondent] JOHANNESBURG, Nov. '22 A camper at. Nahoon, Mrs. W. Freeman, missed death by a few feet when part of a meteorite, weighing 140z., fell 2ft. from the tent in which she was sitting and buried itself 2ft. in the ground. The meteorite, which was due up and found to be composed mostly of copper, measures 4in. in length and Sin. across the base. It is couical in shape. The curator of the Last London Museum, Miss Courtney-Latimer, states that it is one of the rarest types known and is tho only ono to have fallen in East London for ft number of years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23234, 31 December 1938, Page 11
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116FALL OF METEORITE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23234, 31 December 1938, Page 11
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