P Pallas, P. S., 155 pallasites, 122, 155 Pantar stone shower, 74 parallax and parallactic displacement, 105, 106 Paris, Museum of Natural History at, 38, 158 paths of meteors, 84-94, 116 _see also_ earth-trace; orbits; speeds; trajectory; velocity patterns, structural, 120, 121, 172 Pawnee Indians, 41 Peary, R. E., 36, 37, 128 Perry, S. H., 179 Perseid shower, 114, 115 person struck by meteorite, 70-2, 178, 179 piezoglyphs, 131, 132 Pittsburgh iron, 78, 80 plessite, 124 plotting meteor paths, 116 Plymouth meteorite, 75 Podkamennaya Tunguska fall, 50, 54-60, 65, 102 polishing meteorites, 5, 118, 120, 123 Port Orford stony-iron, 40 Prague Observatory, 2 Prior, G. T., 178 Proctor, R. A., 164 Pultusk fireball, 92 Purdue University, 170 pure science, 166 “purloined” meteorite, 36, 39 Q Quadrantid shower, 114 R radiant of meteor shower, 112, 113 radioactivities, 5, 60, 133, 138, 168, 170-1 Rafrüti iron, 78 rainfall, connected with meteor showers, 117 random distribution, 62 ray-craters, 60-4 recoveries of meteorites, 14-22, 24, 26-8, 31, 33, 35, 75-82, 84-100 Red River iron, 41 re-entry, 172, 173 reports, eyewitness, 23, 24, 84, 86, 90, 92, 94-5 reversed matter, 56, 58-60 Richland iron, 75 Rigel, 92 rocketry, 110, 174-6 Rojansky, V., 58 S sacred meteorites, 147-50 _see also_ superstitions San Emigdio stone, 80 satellites, man-made, 172 Saturn’s rings, 142 sawing meteorites, 81, 167-9 Schiaparelli, G. V., 177 Schmidt, J. F. J., 149 schreibersite, 124 Scottsville iron, 76 Seeläsgen iron, 75 Shakespeare, meteors mentioned by, 152 shale balls, 48, 133 shapes of meteorites, 18, 32, 126-8, 134-7, 140, 172 Shirihagi iron, 150 “shooting stars,” 104 showers, meteor, 103, 111, 112-116, 117, 152, 153 showers, meteorite, 73, 74, 128, 157, 158, 159 Siena fall, 156 Sikhote-Alin fall, see Ussuri silica-glass, 50, 54, 143 _see also_ glass; tektites silicate-siderites, 122, 123 Sirius, 92 “skymarks,” 92 smallest meteorites, 48, 128 _see also_ dust, meteoritic Solar System, 5, 111, 164, 175-6 sounds made by falling meteorites, 11, 12, 24, 25,26, 94-5, 148, 159 space exploration and ships, 5, 168, 170-6 space-probes, 170-1 space mining, 162, 174-6 spectra and spectrograms, meteor, 107 spectroscopy, gamma-ray, 171 speeds, 21, 32, 107, 108, 109, 110-12, 126, 172 Spencer, L. J., 179 stainless steel, 120, 122, 167 stones, meteoritic, 28-34, 35, 70, 71-2, 73-4, 78, 80, 82, 118, 120-4, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 148, 156-7, 163 stony-irons, 40-1, 118, 122, 124, 163 strata, effect of impact on, 43, 44-5, 48-51 superstitions about meteors and meteorites, 25, 56, 82, 134, 136, 147-52, 154