Thank you to Mark Bostick for posting those old news reports of various falls. It's very interesting to hear about what was seen and found at that time, rather like a time capsule. Just to throw my 2g worth in, here is a report that another list member sent me some time ago; I'm not sure it made it to the list, but it's an eyewitness account of the Honolulu fall of 1825. The author, Hiram Bingham, was a local missionary and merchant of some account, so I'd give it fair credence.
Tracy Latimer p.s. thank you also to ERic Hutton for the original info! ~~snip~~paste~~ A short while ago someone was asking about meteorite falls in Hawaii. I have just come across this eye witness report of the 1825 fall. Taken from the American Journal of Science and Arts. Vol. 49, Oct 1845. Particulars of the fall of Meteorites in the Sandwich Islands; communicated by request, by the Rev. Hiram Bingham, missionary in those Islands, in a letter dated Boston, May 1, 1845. To Prof. Silliman--On the 27th of September, 1825, a shower of meteoric stones fell, partley in the channel between Molokai and Lanai, and partly between those islands and Oahu, and partly at Honolulu, where I then resided. One explosion was heard at Lahaina, and several in quick succession at Honolulu, eighty miles to the northwest, between the hours of 10 and 11, A. M. The fragment that was seen to pass Lahaina towards Oahu fell in the Molokai Channel, and threw a mass of water into the air, and was said to be followed by a rumbling sound. The Rev. Mr. Richards of Lahaina mistook the report of the explosion for that of cannon on board of some ship. The explosions which I heard at Honolulu led me at first to suppose they were cannon on board of ships not far distant. But soon after I was satisfied that they were meteoric. Very soon the servants of Kalanimoku, secretary of state, brought me the fragment which they affirmed had just fallen from the sky in our village. This fragment I carefully preserved and brought over, and had the pleasure of presenting to you. A different pleasure from that with which Mr. Richards and myself picked up and forwarded to the Missionary Museum in Pemberton Square, Boston, a cannon ball--one of several which had been fired at our heads. -- Eric Hutton _______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
