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DURING the early part of the year 1901, when I was on the staff of the Elswick Works, it occurred to me that it would be useful and interesting if a connection could be made between the conditions of the flight of artillery shells and of meteorites. Later in the same year I made a preliminary mathematical investigation into the matter, and as a result a paper on the temperature of meteorites was sent in as an essay to compete for the Smith prizes at Cambridge. It was distinguished from other essays sent up in not receiving a prize.
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WIMPERIS, H. The Temperature of Meteorites. Nature 71, 81–82 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071081a0
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