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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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METEOR CRATER,ARIZONA By CLYDE FISHER Honorar) Curator, Depurtvient of Aslronoutyand the Haydei? PlanetariuKi Repvinted with some fiiodiflcat/oiis fromThe Barnivell Addresses, Philadelphia, 1934 Science Guide No. 92 THIRD PRINTING THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY New York, New York1946
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The Meteor Shower of 1833. An old wood-cut from Grondals Mnsic of the Spheres illustrating the Leonid shower of November 13, 1833, the greatest phenomenon of the kind on record. Compared to a fall of snowflakes. (See cut at top of page 13.) Meteor Crater, Arizona W/.Hie ci /j//ge, dense nuss of no)! Duteorites struck the edrth, pvobahl) )(),()()()years di^o, the inipiict of which crushed and dislodged some 300,()()(),()()() tons of rock By Clvdi: FiSHi-R. Honotjyy Curjtor, Department of Astro>2oniyand tloe Haycien Planetarium A METEOR shower is one of the mostimpressive phenomena in the wholerealm of nature. Its sudden appear-ance, together with the suggestion of faUing orshooting stars, excites wonder and fear, espe-cially in untutored and primitive minds. Vari-ous tribes of American Indians used theNovember shower of 1833, the greatest meteorshower on record—the rain of stars,—as amilestone in their calendars. While showers or swarms of meteors arecomparatively infrequent, th

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