Patients in the General Hospital at Kansas City, Mo., were disturbed shortly before midnight, one night last week, by a loud explosion and a sudden flash of light. Then the night resumed its quietude and its blackness. Next day, investigators found a burned patch of grass on the hospital grounds and a few small holes, less than two inches in diameter, in the earth. A fireball (meteor) had hit Kansas City.
Meteors, literally "things in the air," refer specifically to luminous bodies known as shooting stars, falling stars, fireballs, bolides. Traveling rapidly through the...
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