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The meteoric stone seen to fall near Crumlin, Co. Antrim, on September 13, 19021

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Lazarus Fletcher
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On Saturday, September 18, 1902, at 10.30 a.m. (Irish time), a stone coming from the sky struck the earth (let. 54° 88' 20" N., long. 6° 12' 10" W. of Greenwich) at a farm, belonging to Mr. Andrew Walker, situated in the district termed Crossbill, a mile to the north of the village of Crumlin, in which there is a station of the same name on the line of railway between Lisburn and Antrim. The place of fall is 3½ miles east of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles, and I2 miles almost due west of Belfast, in which city nearly two thousand members of the British Association were then assembled for the annual meeting (September 10-17).

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 19 , Issue 93 , June 1921 , pp. 149 - 162
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1921

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Footnotes

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[The author had left the MS. of this paper in a finished state, as here printed up to the end of the paragraph headed 'specific gravity'.]

With Chemical Analysis by G. T. Prior, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.

References

page 150 note 1 [ Fletcher, L., Fall of a meteoric stone near Crumlin (Co. Antrim) September 18. 'Nature', London, 1902, vol. 66, pp. 577-579, 2 figsCrossRefGoogle Scholar. Another short account written by Sir L. Fletcher appeared in the 'Globe' newspaper, and was reprinted in Geol. Meg., 1902, pp. 521-522.]

[A note of the fall was also given by W. E. Besley, 'The Crumlin Meteorite ', Mere. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 1908, voL 12, pp. 29-81, being included in the Eleventh Report of the Section for the Observation of Meteors. In this account, which varies slightly in some of the details, the conclusion drawn is : ' A consideration of the mapped places whence the detonation was ]~ai'd indicates that; as Mr. Milligan remarks, "It would appear that the a~rolite entered the denser strata of the atmosphere apparently at a high angle over the centre of Co. Down" '.]

page 157 note 1 [Since this was written there have been two more falls : a stone of 38 lb. at Appley Bridge, Wigan, Lancashire, on October 18, 1914 ; and three stones of 22¼, 2½, and 2¼ lb. at Strathmore, Perthshire, on December 3, 1917.]