* Astronomy

This meteorite fell near Ottawa, Kansas, on the evening of April 9, 1896. The only accounts of this fall we have been able to trace appeared in the Ottawa Weekly Times of April 16, 1896, and in the Ottawa Weekly Herald of the same date. The latter reads as follows:
"A meteorite, weighing 31 ounces, was on exhibition at C. L. Becker and Co.'s drug store last week which fell the evening of April 9 on the farm of J. T. Black, nine miles northwest of town. The surface of the meteorite was blackened as though it had been subjected to great heat. It is globular in form, with an uneven surface."
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