The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, June 23, 1921, Image 2
Iff WHIN A METEORITE FALLS- \\
K Ko Record of Human Belng? Harmed t
ff by Stones from Space. 11
i The fall of a meteorite on a negro 'i
farm near Pitts, Ga., give8 further ev-|i
ldence of a peculiar record of these t
pbenomnea. Several negroes were t
working near the place the different t
fragments lodged, but were uninjur- t
ed- So tar as is known no human be- 1
I ing has ever been harmed by these |
tones, though cattle have been killed I
by them. There is a record of a me- 1
teoric stone falling through the roof 1
ot a peasant's house bi Hungary into t
the toom where two children were <
asleep. The children were covered
with debris, but were uninjured.
ine ruts meteorite fell on the ,
morning of April 20 &nd was visible ,
over an area of several thousand i
square miles. S. W. McCallie, Oeor- i
gin's state geologist, give8 the follow- ]
ing account of it in the Atlanta Con- h
stitution: ,
The attendant phenomena wit- <
nessed by the observers of the Pitts 1
meteorite were similar in character '
and succeeded each other in the same <
order as that noted in meteoric falls 1
in general. Named in order of their <
occurrence, they were: A rapidly i
moving body, often referred to as a '
fire ball; a dense smoke in the wake <
of the fire ball; occasionally lumin- i
ous for several minutes; distinct
, boomings, generally compared to dis- i
charge of distant cannon, succeeded t
by a number of lesser sounds; a roaring
or whizzing noise not unlike the
sound of a falling body and its im- i
pact on the surface of the earth.
Mounds lilko Thunder.
The first sound heard was compared
to that of thunder, and to many
it was the first warning that an un-j
usual occurrence was taking place |
in the sky above. At Cordele, 15 miles i
west of Pitts, the sound resembled!
that of a heavy explosion, distinctly I
heard by several people on the street.
In the country, four miles east of i
cordele, two terrific explosions were
noted louder than thunder, which bo
terrified the farm hands that they
ran frightened to their homes. In
the immediate vicinity of Pitts the
sound was described as several loud
explosions causing the earth to tremble,
followed in quick succession by
a number of lesser explosions.
The roaring and whizzing noise and
the impact of the falling fragments
were heard only in the immediate
vicinity of the falL
An explanation of the different phe.
nomena above given as as follows:
The rapidly moving ball of fire was
the meteorite itslef made self?lumInoug
by the friction produced in
passing through the upper atmosphere.
The speed of meteorites when
they first encounter the earth's at- 1
mosphere is said to be Beven to forty
miles a second. The smoke i8 fused
particles of the meteorite brushed off
from Its surface as it moves rapidly i
through the air. The sound compared.'
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;o the booming of cannon and also the I
esser sounds are supposed to be due
o the explosion of the meteorite and,1
:he sudden beating of the surround- j
ng air. The retardation of the meteo-J
-ite by the resistance of air exerts ai
powerful dissuptive force upon it, I
lince the rear part of the meteorite
ends to travel with the planetary i
ipeed while the forward part i? being ]
:liecked. The whizzing and roaring i
loise heard some minutes after the j
oud explosion was produced by the
'ragments of the meteorite passing
through the air. This sound was followed
immediately by the impact of
the falling fragment striking the
;arth.
Fell Near a House.
The largest pieces, weighing 57
cunces, fell within less than 75 feet
}f Nancy Brinson's house, where it
was dug up a few minutes later still
warm, but not red hot as first reported.
The fragments entered the
Treshly plowed sandy soil to a depth
of about 16 inches, forming an in:onspicuous
hole less than 18 inches
In diameter and scarcely half so deep.
The fragment is irregular, rhomdotial
in shape. More than two thirds of
the surface shows the natural pitted
characteristics of an iron metoerite
seated with black iron ?k-~?-v.
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which in places are to be seen patches
of silvery white nickel iron. The
remaining parts of the surface are
rough and angular with more or less
sharp projecting points showing evidence
of rupture from other fragments.
This surface is more or less
smoked, but it has not the thick
coating of the other surface. This
fragment is made up largely of nickel-iron
throughout which, in irregular
masses, occurs the stony material.
The latter consists mainly of gray
mineral interspersed with occasional
greenish granules.
A second fragment fell by the road-,
side within a hundred feet of Jim I
Harden's house, which is 700 feet
southeast of the Brinson house, and
within three feet of a negro boy who
way walking along the road.
No "Foreign" Elements.
It might be interesting to the reader
to know that up to the present no
elements have been found in meteorites
that have not been found on the
earth. This would seem to indicate
that likely all celestial bodios are
made UP of the same material as the
earth and that all have a common
origiii.
Prior to thn 1 B?K ???< .1-- -
?MV AOiU CCIilUI J I lit? tan I
of meteorites was not accredited by
scientists, although numerous instances
were recorded. Plutarch tells of
the fall of a stone in Thrace in 470
B. C.
The most generally accepted theory
is the meteorites are dispersed matter
from shattered planets, or satellites,
although more study is needed
before a satisfactory decision as to
their origin can be reached.
May and June seem to be the
monthfe in which the greatest number
of meteorites fall. Fifteen to twenty
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comparatively few are of sufficient >
size to be seen by the naked eye. <3
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SNOWSTKOM IN AN 1
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Unquestionably a snowstorm may 1
cause an airplane to crash. But the 1
news that a flying machine may come 6
to grief from a snowstorm of which ?
It is itself the cause seems startling. ^
Recent experiments at the United
States Bureau of Standards have ^
proved that such a thing may easily
happen. The kind of snowstorm referred
to. however, is one that
takes place inside the engine.
To form snow there must be moisture
and low temperature, both by
vaporation of fuel in the inlet system.
A decrease in temperature lessens
the quantity of water vapor that a
given volume of air is able to hold,
and the surplus condenses. Hence
the temperature drop produced by
vaporization of the fuel may produce
a condor sat ion of moisture and
turn it into snow.
This was definitely proved by laboratory
experiments with airplane
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?n ??. ?uc luiuiHiiun or snow made
quick trouble. But a ready cure was *
to supply sufficient external heating ?
to orevent the temperature drop. 1
The chief danger from a snow- *
storm in the engine is not that It
causes a decrease in power, but ft,s
produces violent fluctuations of(l
power which can neither he predicted *
nor controlled by the pilot. These J?
fluctuations come when fragments 1
of the snow are dislodged, and result
in changes of speed similar to those (
produced by suddenly opening the,
throttle.
If such trouble brings disaster to
the plane, the snow will all melt before
the engine can be taken apart
for examination- There is then left,
nothing to substitute the pilot's'
report of engine trouble. It is be-1
lieved that this newly acquired Information
will explain many disasters
for which pilots have been unjustly
blamed.
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A FROCi SOIiO.
The account of a frog concert that
we printed in The Companion last "
December has led a reader to send
us in interesting: description of a
frog solo during which the soloist
was in plain sight all the timeIn
the spring of 1876, writes our 1
contributor. I was atteending high
school in Madison. Wisconsin, and
one afternoon took a walk with my i
little sister to a small stream nea.*
by. i
There we saw our soloist, a frog i
that sat on <a stone and sang and ;
trilled as if he were the whole orchestra.
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We drew near and stopped to look(i
at him. He finished his strain and l
rested. Finding that we were friends,
he renewed hin ai"i -? -
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RUSHED WITH ORDERS. ?
That business with the cotton
nills of South Carolina ha8 improved
0 the extent of the manufacturers
lardly being able to keep progress
vith the orders, is the statement of
he department of agriculture, comnerce
and industries, in a statement
ssued to the press. Business has seen
1 great increase In recent weeks, it
kays. Of a total of 185 cotton mills,
mly 15 were closed down on June 1,
ind.a majority of these have resumed
operations since June 1. It is now
lecessary for many of the mills to
ill orders from reserve stocks in'
itorage, says the statement.
"A superintendent told an lnspec-,
or for the department," says the
itatement, "that his mill does not ex>ect
to reduce wages as present coniitions
are satisfactory."
The statement also refers to the
sanitary conditions and conditions^
>ertaining to thF employment of chil-j
iren and also pertaining to the,
imusement and conveniences fur-(
lished to the mill employes, and says
hat these were never so good as now.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.
State of South Carolina,
County of Dillon.
Whereas, there have been presented
to us petitions signed by more
than one third of the qualified voters
and a like proportion of resident
freeholders of the age of twenty-one
years of Lake View school district
No. 14. asking that an election be
granted in said district on the question
of issuing bonds in an amount
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