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On the structure and composition of the Strathmore meteorite1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. F. P. McLintock
Affiliation:
Museum of Practical Geology, London
F. R. Ennos
Affiliation:
Government Laboratory

Extract

The fall of this meteorite, which took place at 1.15 p.m. on December 8, 1917, was witnessed by many people over a large area. The circumstances were investigated immediately by Mr. Henry Coates who has given in a paper already published full and accurate details of the appearance of the meteorite as it described its path, the direction in which it travelled, and the noise caused by its explosion. Fragments were recovered at four different localities lying on a line running from South Corston in Forfarshire north-westwards for about six miles to Easter Essendy in Perthshire, and the following table gives the particulars of the weights and localities of the various pieces.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1922

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Footnotes

1

Published by permission of the Director, H.M. Geological Survey, and of the Government Chemist.

References

page 323 note 2 Henry Coates, History of the Strathmore meteorie fall of 3rd December, 1917. Trans. Perth. Soc. Nat. Sci., 1920, vol. 7, pp. 80-89, 11 pls. [Min. Abstr., vol. 1, p. 400].

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page 325 note 3 Wherry, E. T., Amer. Min., 1917, vol. 2, p. 119 Google Scholar [Min. Abstr., vol. 1, p. 41].

page 325 note 4 G. T. Prior, Min. Mag., 1916, vol. 18, pp. 5 and 9.

page 326 note 1 G. T. Prior, Min. Mag., vol. 18, et seq.

page 329 note 1 G. T. Prior, Min. Mag., 1916, vol. 187 p. 80; 1920, vol. 19, p. 61.