Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Meteorite from Grashina

At six o'clock in the east appeared a brilliant meteor, and with a terrible noise burst, heard the hiss and rumble, the earth dropped two stone blocks, and the sky was gray band is visible, like a pillar of smoke, she notes the following meteorite. Most of the fallen boulders fell on the field just before the plow, and crashed into the ground to "three cubits", both the meteorite was sent to Vienna, the smaller of them disappeared without trace, and the larger stores and on our time in the famous collection of meteorites Imperial mineralogical study in Vienna. Meteor Crash in Grashina for many reasons is one of the most interesting: it is the first phenomenon is one of those about which we have quite accurate and credible news of his contemporaries, in addition, he survived a meteorite, and finally it was first observed in almost all meteorites vidmanshmemovy figures.

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