* Astronomy

Luther Hawthorne's story

On Jan. 18, 1955, Hawthorne reported that after the meteorite strike, his house filled with smoke and a "peculiar, metal-like gas." One of the fragments smashed the clock on his observatory wall, he told the reporter, then it landed in one of his many volumes on astronomy, setting them on fire. Hawthorne called the Fire Department but put the fire out himself before the chief of Kirkland's volunteer department arrived.
The chief did note that the two fragments, the larger one about the size of a medium-sized oyster, were still warm when he arrived. Hawthorne allowed the meteor fragments to be examined by photographers and later experts at the University of Washington. And that's where the story would have ended.
Except, it wasn't true.
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