Hello all Yes is Alfianello.....Brescia no Bresia.... Regards
Matteo --- MARK BOSTICK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Title: The Stevens Point Journal > City: Stevens Point, Wi > Date: Saturday, May 26, 1883 > Page: 2 > > An Aerolite > The Rome correspondent of the St. James Gazette > says that on the 16th > of February some peasants working in a field near > Breseia were startled by > hearing a loud report like thunder. Looking up they > saw the clouds torn > open, and a large body followed by a train of bluish > smoke hurtling through > the air over their heads with the noise of an > express train. The aerolite > buried itself in an adjoining field, the fall > causing a shock like that of > earthquake. It was felt ten kilometres away, while > the report was heard at > Verona and Piacenze, many miles distant. When they > had recovered from their > fright the peasants hurried to the spot, and found a > clean hole about three > feet deep running in an oblique direction from > north-northeast; and on > digging down they came to a solid block, in the form > of a truncated cone, > weighing from four to five hundred pounds. The > surface, which was still > hot, and emitted a sulphurous smell, was covered > with a greenish black > crust, full of small holes, such as would be made by > finger-tips in a soft > paste, which may have given rise to the report that > one of the fragments > bore the impress of a hand. The proprieter of the > clover-field in which the > aerolite fell flew into a rage at his crops being > trampled down by people > coming to see it, and broke it up, when it was > carried away piece meal. So > he gained nothing but damage to his fields, while > those who picked up the > pieces found a ready sale for them, one man getting > as much a seven thousand > franes for a lump that weighed twenty-five pounds. > On a subsequent search by > Prof. Bombicci, of Bologha, several pieces of > scorize, apparently detached > from the aerolite in its flight, were found in the > neighborhood. > > (Mark note: Possibly the Alfianello meteorite fall, > an L6 that fell February > 16th, 1883 at 1500hrs. 228kg total weight found) > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ===== M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.com Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info International Meteorite Collectors Association #2140 MSN Messanger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EBAY.COM:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
