BIRTHPLACES OF METEORITES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 8, 25 August 1911, Page 7

BIRTHPLACES OF METEORITES.

From time to time there is more or ■ ess speculation as to the origin of ho meteoric stones and irons that iccasipnally fall from the sky. The leunity of these bodies and the great ir.e of them are Held to constitute arguments in favour of the view that ,I• oy must have been ejected from ;ome massive body in space, such as die sun, or a star. With reference ,o the peculiar meteorites that fell some years ago at Bronham, Kansas, it may be inferred from their composition, one authority has suggested, irorn what part, of the heavenly body .hat ejected them they came, . The uvavy metallic meteorites called sid•rites may plausibly be supposed to have come from 'the deeper parts of ■ star; the light, stony ones called erolites, from the superficial layers; .ad the rare “pallasites,” like the Ironham meteorites, which are intevnodiate in composition, from the tran.iiional /.one between the outer crust and the dense interior nucleus.