Chapter D

Dalgaranga crater, 65
daubreelite, 124
destruction by meteorites, 11, 15, 16-19, 54-7, 68-70, 73-4, 178
diamond-bearing meteorite, 82
direction measures, 23, 24, 86-9, 110
distribution of meteorites, 66-68, 72, 140-3, 159
dog and meteorite, 73
doubters of meteorites, 154-7
“dumbbells,” 135, 136
“dust balls,” 106
dust, meteoritic, 102, 116-7, 179

E
“earth-rings,” 142
earth-trace, 92
eating a meteorite, 82
Einstein, A., 166
elements in meteorites, 118-24
elements in meteor-forming particles, 107
elevation, apparent, 88, 90
_see also_ altitude
“end-point,” 16, 86-91
Enrico Fermi Institute, 168
Ensisheim stone, 152, 154
Eta-Aquarid shower, 114
etching meteorites, 119-123
evaporation, _see_ vaporization
“explosions” of meteors and/or meteorites, 18, 23, 25, 55, 56-60,
63, 86, 92

F
fall, determining area of, 13-14, 24, 26
_see also_ oval-shaped areas of fall
falls, witnessed, 11-22, 23-34, 67, 68-72, 82, 84-95
Farrington, O. C., 178
farmers as meteorite finders, 28, 30, 75-6
Fermi (Enrico) Institute, 168
fireballs, 2, 10, 11-13, 23-5, 54, 69, 84-92, 102, 106, 149, 151
fishermen net meteorite, 78
fixes, 84-90
“flanged buttons,” 135, 136
flight-path, _see_ trajectory
Flows meteorite, 82
footwarmer, meteorite used as, 78
“fossil” meteorites, 144-6
funnels, impact and penetration, 20, 29, 32, 33, 42, 44
Furnas County stone, 29, 31, 32-4, 128, 178
_see also_ Norton County fall
fusion crust, 20, 21, 130, 132, 140, 148, 172

G
Galle, J. G., 92
gamma-ray spectroscopy, 171
Geminid shower, 114
Giacobinid shower, 103, 114, 115
Giacobini-Zinner comet, 114
glass, 138, 145
_see also_ silica-glass; tektites
Glorieta iron, 126
great-circle distributions, 140-3

H
Harvard meteor-photographs, 110-1
Haviland craters, 50, 52, 65, 66
Hayden Planetarium, 129
height, 88, 90, 105, 106
Henbury craters, 50, 65
Hey, M. H., 178
hexahedrites, 119, 120
Holbrook stone shower, 128
Howard, E., 155-7
hunting meteorites, methods of, 84-100