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...meteor had wrecked the plane and killed the occupants, it would have been the first incontrovertible instance of such hail from outer space causing loss of human life. No one knows whether the mountainous mass that shook North Central Siberia in 1908, or the prehistoric fall that dug Meteor Crater 4,000 ft. wide in Arizona, killed anyone or not. But several close shaves are well known to connoisseurs of meteoritics. In 1827 a man was injured by a fall at Mhow, India. In 1836 cattle were reported killed by a meteoric shower in Brazil. In 1847 two iron meteorites...
...preliminary report from the Harvard Observatory on the meteor which flashed across eastern New England skies early Wednesday afternoon, September 26. indicates that the fireball exploded over the Atlantic Ocean about 180 miles due east from Boston...
According to the Observatory's figures the angle of the meteor's descent to earth was about 30 degrees. The actual size of the disturbance was probably about 500 feet across. A more exact description of the position of the flight follows: the position at the start was approximately 67 degrees 40' West, 63 degrees 21' North; when it exploded, the position was approximately 67 degrees 15' West, 42 degrees 28' North...
...computations are made difficult by a wide divergence of opinion amongst the observers as to the actual appearance and flight of the blinding particle. Although the Observatory's Correspondents generally agreed that the flight was from north to south, a few believed that the meteor took other directions, notably northeast, and a "zig zag course". Estimates of the time the fireball was in the air yary from "not more than a second" to half a minute...
Where the spectators disagree most violently, however, is in the matter of the distance of the spectacle from their individual points of vantage. If all the reports were to be credited, the meteor, or parts of it would be found in Sebago Lake, Maine; in Pine Hills, Plymouth; in the mouth of Boston Harbor; two hundred yards from the shore at Scituate; and among other places, in the back yard of a gentleman on the south shore...