01) The [Binningup] meteorite was recovered within a few minutes of the fall and was reported to have been warm to the touch.
02) Cabin Creek: Three hours after the fall, Mr. and Mrs. Shandy were able to find the hole and excavate the mass, reportedly still uncomfortably warm.
03) Glatton: was warm, not hot, when first picked up.
04) Gurram Konda: ... but near the tent some small warm stones, which the sentry has seen falling down.
05) Juromenha: ... The mass was said to have been incandescent when discovered and still warm when recovered next morning ...
06) L'Aigle: Affrighted persons who picked them up found the stones to be very warm and smelling of sulfur.
07) Limerick: It was immediately dug up, and I have been informed by those that were present, and on whom I could rely, that it was then warm and had a sulphurous smell.
08) Middlesbrough: The stone was "new-milk warm" when found, ...
09) Noblesville: The meteorite was not glowing as it passed the boys and was "slightly warm" when Spaulding picked it up a few seconds after it fell.
10) Pettiswood: The affrighted horse fell to the Earth, and two boys rushed to him in terror carrying fragments that Bingley found to be warm as milk just from the cow.
11) Pontlyfni: When I picked up the fragment of metal, or whatever it is, it was warm in my hand.
12) Rowton: It is, moreover, stated that when Mr. Brooks found the mass "it was quite warm."
13) Tsukuba: Seconds later student Ryutaro Araki stopped to retrieve a still-warm stone that had fallen in front of his car near Tsukuba
14) Wold Cottage: Rushing to the spot he found a large stone, warm and smoking and smelling of sulfur.
15) Crumlin: When dug out the object, which had embedded itself in a straightdownward course for 13 inches, was found to be quite hot, continuing so for about an hour.
16) Eichstädt: The man rushed to the spot but found the black stone too hot to pick up until it cooled in the snow.
17) Hanau: A hot stone the size of a pea was picked up, weight 0.37g.
18) Harrogate: A hot stone, like basalt, fell accompanied by whistling in the air and lightning and thunder ...
19) Holbrook: One piece larger than an orange fell into a tree in a yard at Aztec cutting the limb off slick and clean and falling to the ground, and when picked up was almost red-hot.
Von Achen, who saw them fall, reported that they were too hot to pick up. Two accounts state that they became lighter in color after cooling.
20) Lucé: ... several harvesters, startled by sudden thunderclaps and a loud hissing noise, looked up and saw the stone plunge into a field where they found it half-buried and too hot to pick up.
21) Magombedze: A 10-cm stone weighing approximately 600 g survived the impact intact and was hot to touch.
22) Menziswyl: The farmers say that the stone fell with the lightning and shattered when it hit the ground; it was hot when they picked it up.
23) Lixna: Two other workers who were harrowing a nearby field near the village of Lasdany saw another object covered in earth, which had impacted the ground only 20 steps away. One of the men touched the stone and burned his hand. The burn was later confirmed in a letter by the Count Plater Sieber as he described it as a reddened swollen area on the man's finger...
24) Sena: The fall at Sena took place around noon on November 17, 1773... a man named Miguel Calvo discovered a mysterious stone on the property of his neighbor, Francisco Gonzalez. He first moved it with his hoe and then by hand, but withdrew immediately because the stone was "very hot..."
25) Kilbourn: Mr. Gaffney picked up the stone, but found it so warm he could hold it only for a second or so. It remained warm nearly three hours. When first picked up it had a straw color on its surface, but gradually assumed a black color.
26) Park Forest: Colby Navarro: "Plaster blew all over me and all over the upstairs; then I found the rock," then she added that it was warm to the touch and smelled like the sulfur from fireworks.
27) In the Natural History Museum in Vienna, there is a slice of Dhurmsala on display. The label reads: "Dhurmsala. Gefallen 14.Juli 1869. Kam so kalt zur Erde, dass er nicht in der Hand gehalten werden konnte. Einziger derartiger Fall".
28) Colby (Wisconsin): … the man who extracted it from the earth informed me that it was so cold that frost immediately formed on its surface when exposed to the air.
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