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Excerpt from A Chapter in the History of Meteorites
This is the first meteoric fall recorded to have taken place in Sweden. The sky was cloudy, and, though apparently unobserved at Hessle, a luminous meteor was noticed by observers at a distance. The noise accompanying the fall resembled heavy peals of thunder, followed by a rattling noise as of waggons at a gallop, and ending at first with a note like an organ tone, and then a hissing sound. The stones were strewn over a line of country lying 30� E. Of S. Towards 30� W. Of N. Some of them fell within a few yards of a number of peasants who were coming out of church; one struck the ice close to a man who was fishing on the Malar l�irsta-viken, and after digging a hole three or four inches deep, rebounded; when picked up, it was still warm.
The stones differ greatly in weight, from 21bs. To gramme (about 25 grains). The smallest have the same structure and thick ness of crust as the largest, and are in fact small complete meteorites. Such diminutive stones have not hitherto been noticed, and should be sought for at future aerolitic falls.
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