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                         Meteorites or Aerolites 

    Their parent meteors are probably of the same kind as those first mentioned, 

but the masses were so large that they reached the earth before the friction of the atmosphere had worn them all out, as in the case of the former, smaller meteors. They are said to be hot when they first reach the earth; but few of them are found and touched soon enough after their fall to show more than moderate warmth. There is hardly a week in the year but what the newspapers report the passage of one of those large Meteors over some one of the States or counties of our country. But while many are thus seen n the air, very few are so certainly seen to fall that the fragments or meteorites are immediately found. Of about 200 meteorite kinds which have been found in the United States during the present century barely forty have been collected when they fell. The others have been come upon accidentally by parties observant of mineral objects. Meteorites are always irregularly-shaped pieces; clearly fragments broken, in space or before they commenced their flight, from larger masses of the same rock. They usually have their angles rounded, and their surface covered all around with a crust more or less blackened, and partially melted. There are also in the greater number of cases peculiar depressions or PITTINGS- like markings made by finger-ends in stiff putty- indenting their surface.

     Meteorites are mainly of two kinds: the Stones and the Irons. 

              Stone Meteorites 

(image of a rock)

 are somewhat the more abundant. They are usually of irregular, fragmentary

shape, with flat or convex sides and rounded corners. Some or all surfaces are usually covered with shallow pittings, like finger prints. Also a