[meteorite-list] 1896 Newspaper Article, Spains Aerolite

From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:14 2004
Message-ID: <3D5BE880.4299ADCD_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Mark Bostick wrote:

> Paper: Progress Review
> City: La Porte City, IA
> Date: Saturday, April 25, 1896

> SPAINS AEROLITE RECENTLY FELL IN THE VICINITY OF MADRID


Hello Mark and List,

This may have been this one:

Madrid, L6, veined,
Impact melt breccia
Fell 1896, Feb 10, 09:30 hrs

After the appearance of a luminous meteor, followed by detonations,
several small stones, one of which weighed 125 g, fell near Madrid;
the total weight collected was about 400 g.


Bernd
Received on Thu 15 Aug 2002 01:44:32 PM PDT