We never see meteors unless they come in to contact with the gases of the earth’s atmosphere and are set on fire by friction. Most of them burn themselves out in the air, but they may fall to the earth as meteorites. It is supposed that some meteors are the pieces of broken-up comets, and the stones are strung out on the comet’s old orbits
The largest meteorites consist mostly of iron
One of the largest meteorites known, weighing more than 20 tons, is an iron one at Bacubirito, Mexico. Another large one was brought from Greenland by Commander Peary, the discoverer of the North Pole. It weighs more than 36 tons. It is in New York. The very largest meteorite ever found weighs about 60 tons and is in South-West Africa. All these very large meteorites are of iron; the largest stone meteorite to fall weighed only about 1,000 pounds.
We never see meteors unless they come in to contact with the gases of the earth’s atmosphere and are set on fire by friction. Most of them burn themselves out in the air, but they may fall to the earth as meteorites. It is supposed that some meteors are the pieces of broken-up comets, and the stones are strung out on the comet’s old orbitsThe largest meteorites consist mostly of iron One of the largest meteorites known, weighing more than 20 tons, is an iron one at Bacubirito, Mexico. Another large one was brought from Greenland by Commander Peary, the discoverer of the North Pole. It weighs more than 36 tons. It is in New York. The very largest meteorite ever found weighs about 60 tons and is in South-West Africa. All these very large meteorites are of iron; the largest stone meteorite to fall weighed only about 1,000 pounds.
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