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A SUPPOSED METEORITE AT QUETTA.—The Pioneer Mail for February 23 reports the fall of a supposed meteorite at Quetta on January 25, which, if confirmed, will for the first time establish the power of a meteorite to cause a conflagration. The fragments of the meteorite collected are said to weigh 6 tons, with a volume of 500 cubic feet ! Hence the material must be abnormally light for a meteorite. It struck a large stack of closely packed straw 30 feet high, and penetrated it nearly to the ground. The “meteorite” is said to consist of materials like slate-grey igneous rock, volcanic glass, and coke. Possibly the stack was struck by lightning and the fused residue of the straw has been mistaken for a meteorite. The Geological Survey of India will doubtless settle the nature of this phenomenon.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 111, 510 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111510a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111510a0