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Re: (meteorobs) Chicago fire??


I think that this all stems from Ignatius Donnelly's 1882 book 
"Atlantis," which makes the suggestion that fragments of Biela's Comet 
caused the Chicago and midwest fires.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/rag/rag32.htm

Late last month there was a major conference sponsored by the Aerospace 
Corporation on the possibility of mitigating impacts from asteroids, 
comets, and NEOs, and one of the speakers, Dr Robert Wood, gave a paper 
on the Biela's Comet/Chigago Fire theory. (Other attendees included 
folks like US Air Force Gen Simon Worden, who directed the Clementine 
deep-space probe project).

Joel Carpenter

> Well this one is a puzzle.
>
> There is an article available on the net about a 22 year veteran fire
> fighter researching the three midwest fires of 8 October 1871, all 
> being
> attributed to a meteorite or meteor fragments. see
> http://www.speak4you.com/mica_calfee/lectures.html
>
> And the following website
> http://www2.state.id.us/bdsmitigation/asteroids.html
> from the Idaho Bureau of  Disaster Services has a list of "meteor (sic)
> impacts" in modern ( recorded history) times.
>
> Also there is a listing of a meteorite fragment being found on the 
> shore
> of Lake Huron.   see http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/gfmeteor/evidence.htm
>
> Until some graduate student or a dedicated researcher collects all the
> information it is an interesting story.
>
> So the question  -- is the cow a comet?
>
> George John Drobnock
>
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