FALL OF METEORITE
FLASH DURING STORM R AIN 0 E WIIIT E -IIOT META I a Associated with the electrical storm which broke over Palmerston North on Wednesday morning was what is thought to have been a meteorite. A resident related how he had been numbed by the shock of what appeared to be a shellburst while he was standing on the footpath in the square between Rangitikei street and Coleman place, where the visitation seemed to be concentrated. Following a blinding flash pieces of a white-hot substance rained on the roadway and burst into smaller pieces, several of which he subsequently nicked up. One of the pieces was laiter examined by a geologist who, without having the necessary equipment on hand to be able to give a fully accurate report, slated that the substance was metallic, having Hic hardness of quartz and the colour of copper. When scraped it was of a silvery colour. The material was probably part of a meteorite.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 14
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163FALL OF METEORITE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 14
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