D Dalgaranga crater, 65 daubreelite, 124 destruction by meteorites, 11, 15, 16-19, 54-7, 68-70, 73-4, 178 diamond-bearing meteorite, 82 direction measures, 23, 24, 86-9, 110 distribution of meteorites, 66-68, 72, 140-3, 159 dog and meteorite, 73 doubters of meteorites, 154-7 “dumbbells,” 135, 136 “dust balls,” 106 dust, meteoritic, 102, 116-7, 179 E “earth-rings,” 142 earth-trace, 92 eating a meteorite, 82 Einstein, A., 166 elements in meteorites, 118-24 elements in meteor-forming particles, 107 elevation, apparent, 88, 90 _see also_ altitude “end-point,” 16, 86-91 Enrico Fermi Institute, 168 Ensisheim stone, 152, 154 Eta-Aquarid shower, 114 etching meteorites, 119-123 evaporation, _see_ vaporization “explosions” of meteors and/or meteorites, 18, 23, 25, 55, 56-60, 63, 86, 92 F fall, determining area of, 13-14, 24, 26 _see also_ oval-shaped areas of fall falls, witnessed, 11-22, 23-34, 67, 68-72, 82, 84-95 Farrington, O. C., 178 farmers as meteorite finders, 28, 30, 75-6 Fermi (Enrico) Institute, 168 fireballs, 2, 10, 11-13, 23-5, 54, 69, 84-92, 102, 106, 149, 151 fishermen net meteorite, 78 fixes, 84-90 “flanged buttons,” 135, 136 flight-path, _see_ trajectory Flows meteorite, 82 footwarmer, meteorite used as, 78 “fossil” meteorites, 144-6 funnels, impact and penetration, 20, 29, 32, 33, 42, 44 Furnas County stone, 29, 31, 32-4, 128, 178 _see also_ Norton County fall fusion crust, 20, 21, 130, 132, 140, 148, 172 G Galle, J. G., 92 gamma-ray spectroscopy, 171 Geminid shower, 114 Giacobinid shower, 103, 114, 115 Giacobini-Zinner comet, 114 glass, 138, 145 _see also_ silica-glass; tektites Glorieta iron, 126 great-circle distributions, 140-3 H Harvard meteor-photographs, 110-1 Haviland craters, 50, 52, 65, 66 Hayden Planetarium, 129 height, 88, 90, 105, 106 Henbury craters, 50, 65 Hey, M. H., 178 hexahedrites, 119, 120 Holbrook stone shower, 128 Howard, E., 155-7 hunting meteorites, methods of, 84-100 I “ices,” 106 Illinois Gulch iron, 76 impactites, 143-5 India, Museum of the Geological Survey of, 41 Indians, 41, 76, 150 Institute for Nuclear Studies, 168 Institute of Meteoritics, 5, 24, 26-32, 80, 84, 96, 168, 169, 171 intersecting lines of sight, 84-90 interstellar space, 92, 171 irons, 19, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 48, 73, 75, 76, 78, 82, 99, 116, 118, 120, 121, 128, 129, 133, 143, 150, 155, 163, 167, 174-5, 179 J Jones, W. B., 179 Jupiter, 102, 142, 160, 161, 164