[meteorite-list] NPA 12-1909 Iowa Meteor, Dinosaur Bone Barn Foundation
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:04 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV21QDkDcJE0900009146_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_002F_01C3CC15.AD590DE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paper: Iowa Recorder =20 City: Greene, Iowa =20 Date: Wednesday, December 22, 1909 Section "The State of Iowa Occurrences of the Past Week" The meteor observed speeding across the sky at Dubuque late Sunday aftern= oon developed a split west of there, one section, a foot in diameter, fal= ling in a field near Dyersville and the other, weighing more than a ton, = embedding itself in the earth near Manchester. As the larger piece struck= the earth many houses were shaken. Mark note: After this news note was another interesting article which fol= lows. Several wagon loads of fossil bones of the saurian or sea serpent (Plesio= sourus hoskinsi), which were found on the Talbot farm north of Sioux City= , will be lost to the museum of the Sioux City Academy of Science and Let= ters unless Curator H.C. Powers succeeds in finding a certain farmer who = intends to mix them in concrete for a foundation for his farm. The bones = are the vertebrae of an animal thirty-eight feet long that once inhabited= Iowa. Mark note 2: Meteorites A to Z does not show a meteorite having fallen an= d recovered at this time. Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor= and meteorite articles. ------=_NextPart_001_002F_01C3CC15.AD590DE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><B><FONT size=3D= 2> <P>Paper: Iowa Recorder </P> <P>City: Greene, Iowa </P> <P>Date: Wedne= sday, December 22, 1909</P></B> <P> </P> <P>Section "The State of Io= wa Occurrences of the Past Week"</P> <P> </P> <P>The meteor observed= speeding across the sky at Dubuque late Sunday afternoon developed a spl= it west of there, one section, a foot in diameter, falling in a field nea= r Dyersville and the other, weighing more than a ton, embedding itself in= the earth near Manchester. As the larger piece struck the earth many hou= ses were shaken.</P> <P> </P> <P>Mark note: After this news note was= another interesting article which follows.</P> <P> </P> <P>Several = wagon loads of fossil bones of the saurian or sea serpent (Plesiosourus h= oskinsi), which were found on the Talbot farm north of Sioux City, will b= e lost to the museum of the Sioux City Academy of Science and Letters unl= ess Curator H.C. Powers succeeds in finding a certain farmer who intends = to mix them in concrete for a foundation for his farm. The bones are the = vertebrae of an animal thirty-eight feet long that once inhabited Iowa.</= P> <P> </P> <P>Mark note 2: Meteorites A to Z does not show a meteor= ite having fallen and recovered at this time.</P></FONT><BR><BR>Please vi= sit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and mete= orite articles.</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_002F_01C3CC15.AD590DE0-- Received on Sat 27 Dec 2003 02:06:37 AM PST |
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