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Word: meteors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon a metallic mass swooped in a long arc over Maine and Massachusetts. Groundlings saw its orange-red path, heard a mighty rumbling and hissing. Somewhere above the Massachusetts coastline the meteor exploded. At Salisbury Beach a crowd of Emergency Relief workers saw a fireball drop into the sea, cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteors | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...pilot was in the passengers' cabin. Suddenly Anderson saw a great dazzling ball in his path which he afterward said was as "big as a house." Instinctively he whipped his plane into a bank. The passengers snapped awake and the pilot rushed forward in time to see the meteor shatter like a mammoth bomb. Glowing fragments streamed past, plunged earthward. The plane was unharmed. But on the ground a truck driver who saw the meteor telephoned police that a burning airplane was falling. California astronomers thought it likely that the phenomenon was, in reality, miles away from the airliner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteors | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteors | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Observatory Makes Report On Large Meteor Seen In New England | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Observatory Makes Report On Large Meteor Seen In New England | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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