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(meteorobs) re: Chicago fire??
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To: "meteorobs@atmob.org" <meteorobs@atmob.org>, George Drobnock <drobnock@penn.com>
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Subject: (meteorobs) re: Chicago fire??
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From: drobnock <drobnock@penn.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:40:01 -0500
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Delivered-To: meteorobs-mhonarc2@galaxy.atmob.org
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Thank you Joel.
Your information is the timely. What is the original source of the
Chicago fire - a legend or myth.? Or an accident of a cow?
(Please before it goes further, I understand that some myths and
legends do have their bases in a fragmeted fact.)
Fini.
George John Drobnock
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
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