Word: knyahinya
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...news to me that another bunch at Oxford had scrapped Causality, I stretched out with an icebag on my head. Then it was all random. Certainty was a gone goose, and the soul with it. The soul was a clinker, cold as the meteorites that fell on Toulouse, Knyahinya and, if memory served, Pultusk and Mocs. Man has no purpose...
Meteorites are the material residue of meteors, which reaches the earth. The largest meteorite actually seen to fall, landed its 547 pounds at Knyahinya, Hungary, in 1866. However, masses have been found weighing up to 50 tons, which have the characteristics of meteorites. A fused crust indicating intense heating in the drop through the air is noticeable on all meteorites. About one-third of the earth's elements have been found in meteorites; most of them resemble stones; a few contain a large percentage of iron ore. Perhaps the most famed meteorite of history was the black, cone-shaped...
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