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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 23, 22 March 1918, Page 8

“Spend all your surplus wealth: save all your surplus products, thus you doubly serve your fellows,” Man's knowledge of shooting-stars extends into the oldest history of humanity. Yet to-day (says “Popular Science”) no one knows exactly what a shooting-star is, or from where it comes. An hypothesis proposed in 1875 and generally accepted to-day, is that meteorites are fragments broken from Small planetary masses by volcanic explosions, brought about by a sudden expansion of gases,' steam, and probably hydrogen. The broken bits, after their separation, arc believed to arrange themselves in swarms, which cross the orbit of the earth, in accordance with a definite law. Shooting-stars, then, come from within the solar system, and are broken bits of a world body destroyed by volcanic events.