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Reliable and consistent radio sovon tons, which has just roach relay of broadcast signals up to od Aberdeen from Greenland, 300 miles is best obtained on long where it fall from the skies many wavelengths according to demon- years ago, is an exceptionally big strations by the radio engineers thing of its kind, and astronomers of station WGY, and geologists will be curious to Schenectady message, know exactly of what materials For several months past all it is composed, writes a soientific programmes of WGY, which correspondent to a London paper. operates on 37.5 meters, were The largest moteorite

also broadcast under oxporimont- actually soon to fall on the earth al licences on 41.88 motors, 109 was one that fell in Hungary meters and 1560 meters..

Observations of the transmission) sixty years ago, the weight of which was just over a quarter of on euch wavelength were nado Ja ton. Others have been found over a long period of time and the composition of which dearly under widely different conditions. experiments included suggests their meteoric origin) The much larger-one in Mexico changes in the types of antenna. The announconient of success- estimated to weigh fifty tons, and another, brought from Greenland ful relay of the 1560 meters signal by the late Conquer Poury, comes affer thorough research and which tried the seule at 363 test, and it marks the first im

portant, result obtained from the comprehensive transmitter de a the great majority ofvelopment work which is being meteorités weigh only a few carried on at the radin laboratory pounds, though, as their fall is of the General Electric Company, always proveded by Loud A great deal of work has been [explosion; those that reach the

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to short wavelengths. fragments of ik huge mass while a number of fairly success- disintegrated by the intense heatful relays were made, the, relay genencies by its encounter with channel always lacked that de- the earth's atmosphere some fiftygree of liability necessary to milles above the ground. The establish a real service. largest known have fallen in As a result of the developments this country came to earth in carried on by the engineers of Yorkshire, a few miles from the General Electric Company, Bridlington, in 1795, the weight the characteristics and possibili- | of which was it. It is among ties of various wavelengths are the meteoric collection in the gradually becoming known Natural History Museum,

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meteorities including iron, nearly turo of 212 deg, balow Centigrade always alloyed with nickel, cal-zero without destroying them, chun. eurban, magnesium,

but not one of these bacteria, so Oxygen, phosphorus, arsenic, Lenacious of life at low tempara-

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tures, survived exposure to ultra- sulphur: while, in a few, minute violet rays for six hours. It may quamities of gold silver, copper, bo that there is some unknown and the rare metal platinum are characteristic of inter-planetary also present.

space that counteructs the deadly The origin of meteorites is a effect of the ultraviolet rays, or problem yet to be solved, but it is

that life-germs embedded almost certain that they ware

jected from a volcano on one of meteors are effectively protected

from thom. the planets, But dynamical considerations make it vory improbable that any planet other than the earth could in this way propel meteorites lato space that' would ultimately fall on the eurt. The late Sir Robert Ball! mathematically investigated this

to problem, and came

bodies these conclusion that originated in terrestrial volcanic outhirsts ages ago, and that when' they now fall on the earth they are returning to their birthplace, Any such bodies ejected. with great velocity from a terrestria volanu wonild pursue elliptical orbits round the sun, but once in every revolution they would return to the point of their origin and cross the earth's orbit, and overy meteorite meeting the earth! at this critical junction would inevitably be dragged inck to the earth, whence it sturted its Career The chances of such! encounters with the earth in the NORA BLANEY lease of a meturite originating oni

any other planet are so slight that Sir Robert Ball dismissed

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