440 W. M. Foote — Shower of Meteoric Stones, Arizona. 



path was indicated to many by a train of thin smoky vapor 

 which spread out after the meteor passed. One observer esti- 

 mated that the explosion occurred one or two miles above the 

 earth. The weather at the time was slightly cloudy. 



The stones were scattered over an ellipsoidal area roughly 

 estimated by two finders to be abont one-half mile wide and 

 three! miles long. As frequently recorded in meteoric falls, 

 the longest diameter of this ellipsoid was in line with the tra- 

 jectory of the meteor, being east and west. Most of the 



Fjg. 3. 



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Fig. 3. Characteristic pyramidal brustseite, with two rear corners broken 

 and later fused, x 1" diameters. 



smaller fragments lay on the top of the loose sandy soil; the 

 larger pieces were about half buried, some to a depth of six 

 inches, apparently having fallen slantingly from the west. The 

 large and small stones, according to all answers received, were 

 said to be indiscriminately spread over the ground, without 

 regard to size.* In previous stone showers the small stones 

 have been found first in the line of flight, then the medium, 

 and finally the largest. The violent disruptions near Hol- 

 brook might account for the lack of such separation of the 

 sizes, provided an explosion occurred near the end of the 

 flight. Just such a late disruption was evidenced by the nearly 

 *See further, note on p. 456. 



