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WUS shower. It world and wonder if the frightening that many people wish will really come true. interpreted it as a sign of the But the "shooting stars" we approaching end of the world. watch are not stars at all, In 1886 and 1867 the shower they are what men of was repeated, but on a smaller science call meteora.
If scale, The swarm originated trom a comet which had they reach the earth, the
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Many craters on the moon probably were formed in the same way that the Barringer Crater near Winslow, Arizona, made by a visitor from space. The top picture (courtesy of the Mount Wilson Observatory) shows the region of Copernicus, a large moon crater belleved to have been formed when meteorite fell. Note the lines running outward from the crater. The picture below (courtesy of the Denver Museum of Natural History) shows the Barringer Crater. From the air this looks much like a moon crater.
Chirpie and His Bird-Friends
-Some of Them Didn't Act Like Birds at All! -
By MAX TRELL
HIRPIE Sparrow came to the window sill for his morning bread crumbs, and after greeting Koarf and Hanid, the shadow. children with the turned-about
names, he said: "I flew down to the zoo yesterday to visit a bird- friend of mine that I haven't seen
a long time."
for A
"Who?" Knarf asked.
to
"Penny the Guin," repiled Chirpie, helping himself another crumb. "He's quite bird."
"You
mean Penguin?"
said Hand, who was puzzled by the nem Penny the Guin
"I flew down to the zoo yoster- day to visit a bird-friend,” said Chirple Spartow.
Paid Him a Visit
"That's the cne, Penguin, But 1 call him Penny the Guin. He calls body can see him. He thinks that himself something else. I forget what it is. Anyway, I went down because he can't see anybody, o the zoo to pay
visit, nobody can see him. It's a foolish There he was standing on the idea." edge of a large pool filled with Ice-cold water. I never saw such a bird for swimming in ice-cold water."
him
A
Much Different
Knarf and Handd both agreed; that not being able to see some- body was much different from "Oh, does he swim?" Knart somebody not being able to see asked in surprise.
you.
"Dues he swimi 1 chould say "But the strangest and mosi so. He swims as well
23 three wonderful bird of all is--humph,
fish put together, And none of I don't know what his name is.” Í your duck-goose paddling on top often see him, though. He stands of the water, elther. He swims in the window of a barber shop in under the water. Where he ever the middle of town," Icarned how to swim that way is more than I can understand.”
"Penguins come from the Scu'h Pole," said Hanid. "It's very cold down there. That's why your friend Penny the Quin likes ce rc.d water."
"I guess 90," said Chirple, "Penguins are wonderful-under- water swimmers all right," Henid continued, "Only they're not very good birds."
"What does he look like?" Hanid wanted to know.
"Like a parrot, But he doesn'% He talk. He also doesn't move. doesn't eat. He doesn't sing, or chimp, or crow, or caw, or honk, or doream. He never does any- thing but stand in the window and look oul."
"And he can't fly?" said Knart lo surprise.
"Maybe he can, but he doesn't.
"Eh? How do you mean that?" Chirpie said, looking very And he doesn't hop, or walk, or, puzzled. He almost dropped a run crumb out of his mouth.”
"Why, they can't fly, Chirpie. Everyone knows that.”
Swims Underwater Chirple nodded sadly. "That's
"He must be a stuffed bird,” sald Hanid.
That's what I think," agreed Chirpic. And suddenly Chiple #lopped eating the crumbs on the window sill. "Oh-I better not
eat any more. I don't want to be
stuffed--not met".
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the trouble," he said. "Penny the Quin can swim underwater." But And the next second he flapped he can't fy in the air, I can fly, his wings and flew off, just in the air but I can't swim under- make sure he still could fly, water core crumbs.
Chirple had a
Then
a few more
fte continued. "There are d'
few other bird-friends of mine
the
The deep hole is called Barringer Crater, after Dy D.M. Barringer, who first advanced miles of forest, flattening it to 50 the idea that it was of meteoritic the ground. Dwellings 30 origin. Nowadays origin miles away were wrecked and a
of reindeer has been definitely
which established, large herd but as late as 1923 some geolo had been feeding in the vicinity Atsta believed the crater was of the impact was completely caused by a sub-surface vol- canle explosion.
destroyed.
There are two main types of Meanwhile a smaller crate- meteorites, the iron type and the of meteoritic origin was found earthy type, but sume contain near Odessa, Texas, and then both iron and earth. The iron 13 such maters were discovered usually contains viher metals, In 1931 in Australia,
including from two to five per- cunt nickel, while the earthy Exploration of the vicinity of ones have no metal. in a few, Barringer Crater produced small and
not
valuable very about 10 tons of iron meteorites diamonds have been found. within
a radius of five miles. leaving little doubt what caused Several things enable a scien- the crater. Then astronomers, list to recognise a meteorite from studying the moon, decided that ordinary stone and minerals. the vast majority of its craters The colour is dark, which may are also of meteoritic origin, be only the outer crust and the and these moot craters look interior being light. Iron types very much like the Barringer may turn a rusty brown after of course those lying in the ground for some on the moon are miles across time. while than
Crater, exc
the Arizona hole mile in diameter
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MANY meteors, that is "shoot stars" which we see a night in the sky, are about the size of wheat grains. When they travel through space there
The shape varies greatly, with no sharp edges, showing more or less fusion, or melting to- gether. Some of the meteorites have a pitted surface or a sur- face covered with granules call- ed "chondrules." These may be microscopic to
several milli- metres in diameter.
is no air, but when they strike If you find a meteorite, or a our atmosphere they meet frie stone suspected of being tion from the air, grow hot and a meteorite, show it to some most of them, because they are mineralogist who specialises in se small, burn up before they them, such as Dr Nininger of reach the earth.
Winslow, Arizona.
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CROCODILES INVADE HOMES IN LOBITO), SOUTH- WEST AFRICA,EVERY TIME RIVERS OVERFLOW
who can do things that moet bids Rupert and the Ice-flower—16
can't do, but can't, do 'what
to
har Brittler can do
Kasrf and Hanid asked
tell Tim
mind.
most
Chirple
them what birde he had is
"Well,
there's Ost the Rich. an enöradus birth and...20 Hand Quirich?“ vaid
Teport the Rich enor mour bird. He lives is the middle of the divert and haiNES DETS faster than a köray. Bu,” added
hath
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