CHARLES FORT was a 19th century gentleman who published books cataloging all kinds of unusual phenomena. . . . X-Files kind of stuff, including strange things falling from the sky.
Like big balls of ice that clearly aren’t hailstones because they don’t come from storms and clearly aren’t ejecta from airplane toilets because . . . well, just because. Okay? (We don’t need to go into the details.)
LIKE THIS ONE THAT RECENTLY FELL IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Turns out these things have (recently acquired) a name and are established enough scientifically now that Charles Fort ought to be pleased.
They’re called
MEGACRYOMETEORITES.
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Ties in w/the Iowa State astronomer who believes that we are constantly being hit with small ‘snowballs’ from space – mini-comets? Considering how many pieces Schwassman/Wachtman just broke into, who knows.
Any more on the multi-kiloton strike in Norway a few weeks ago roughly when the half mile asteroid passed just outside the lunar orbit? Asteroids often have moons. . .
I hate to admit this, but I am actually old enough to remember when this sort of thing used to be reported in the news as a “Fortean Phenomenon”….
One would hope the ice balls wouldn’t be taken for airplane toilet ejecta if Fort was describing them in the 19th century.:-)