PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Vol. 4-, pp. 193-202, PLATE 19. AUGUST 21, 1905- 



NOTES ON THE BATH FURNACE AEROLITE. 



LIBRARY 



By Henry A. Wakd. ^^^ YORK 



BOTANICAL 



(Read by title before the Academy February 13, 1905.) GARDEN 



The passage of this meteor was first signalled in the early evening 

 of November 15, 1902, high above northern Tennessee and Ken- 

 tucky, and was seen as far north as Columbus, Ohio. Its course 

 was north, 81 degrees east until its final fall in Bath county, 

 eastern Kentucky, about 50 miles east of Lexington.. Prof. Arthur 

 M. Miller of the State College of Kentucky at Lexington, who 

 recorded the fall in "Science" August 21, 1903, tells us that "The 

 few residents of the region where the pieces struck seem to have 

 been much startled by the blinding light and the heavy detonations 

 accompanying the fall . They speak of the singing of the fragments, 

 as they flew through the air, and of the sound made by their strik- 

 ing the ground, or hitting the timber on the knolls." 



There were three distinct falls (noting only those of which pieces 

 were found) all doubtless occurring simultaneously, but found at 

 different times at points slightly separate. 



The piece first found fell at 6:45 p. m. in the road in front of the 

 house of Buford Staten, near old Bath Furnace, some five miles 

 south of Salt Lick, and was found by him the following morning. 

 It had cut a furrow east and west in the hard road about a foot 

 long and five inches in greatest depth. It was about 8^x6x4 inches 

 in dimensions, and weighed 12 lbs 12^2 ounces. . This piece v/as 

 bought for me through the good services of Prof. Miller; and after 

 cutting to show its inner structure, it was put in the Ward-Coonley 

 Meteorite Collection.* Mr. Staten writing me of this fall said : "It 

 sounded like a great buzz-saw ripping through a thick plank, and 

 coming at me through the air." 



The second piece was found one hundred yards west of No . i , 



*For description of this mass, see Am. Journal of Science (4th Scr.) Vol 16, pp. 316-319. 

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