Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — The Earth a Big Magnet. [ARTICLE]

The Earth a Big Magnet.

The meteorites that fall upon the earth are composed chiefly of iron. Signor Bombicci suggests an explanation of this. The earth is a big magnet, as shown by the proceedings of a bar of steel freely supended and accurately bala ced on its center. Bombicc.’s idea is that this big terrestrial magnet, when rushing through space containing meteoric particles, exerts a selective attraction for those which are ferruginous.