Guide leaflet (1901) (14764903551)

Meteor Crater, Arizona.
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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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m Photograph by Clyde FisherMETEOR CRATER, ARIZONA, FROM THE REMLooking across the crater pit, 570 feet deep and4150 feet in diameter philosopher,foretold that
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Anaxagoras Clazomenius,with the appearance of acomet a stone should fallfrom the sun. Such astone did fall at Abydosand was held in greatreverence. Records alsoshow that at 11:30 P.M.;on November 7, 1492, ameteorite fell at Ensis-heim in Ober-Elsass, Ger-many. This stone wasregarded as a miracle ofGod and by order of KingMaximilian the mainmass, weighing 260pounds, was placed inthe church at Ensisheim.This meteorite is of inter-est in that it constitutes AIRPLANE VIEW OFMETEOR CRATER, ARIZONATaken bv Clyde Fisher,January 12, 1933. with snowon the ground. CanyonDiablo and the San FranciscoMountains in the background 14 NATURAL HISTORY the okiest known fall of which samples ofthe specimen have been preserved. As noted by Dr. O. C. Farrington,1915, the first stony meteorite observedto fall in America, and which wasdescribed, was that of Weston, which fell6:30 A.M., December 14, 1807, in Fair-field County, Connecticut. In comment-ing upon this fall Thomas Jefferson,President of the United