Showing posts with label meteors and meteorites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meteors and meteorites. Show all posts

8.5.10

What if? . . . When Meteorites Crash

from Amazing Stories,
June 1940

Every day thousands of meteorites bombard the earth. Most of them are tiny and harmless, but some have been huge. Meteor Crater, in Arizona, was caused by one of these. Another devestated an enormous region in Siberia. The Carolina craters are the remains of an ancient meteorite fall. What if such a meteorite, or meteorite swarm, was to fall in the vicinity of a large city? What if one fell into the ocean off New York? The catastrophe that would result would be one of the most terrible in history . . .

16.7.09

Dangers in Space


Willy Ley and his daughter Xenia in front of the 15 1/2-ton Wiliamette meteorite. The photograph was taken at the Hayden Planetarium by Mrs. Ley.

from Adventures in Space: Space Pilots by Willy Ley, 1957

2.5.09

Meteor Storm


Legal space-disputes might very well lead to war if man shows no better sense in the future than now. Laws must be made both to prevent and cover such wars.

"
Meteor Storm" by Tom O'Reilly
from
The Complete Book of Outer Space (1953)
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