[meteorite-list] 1937 Newspaper Article, Canada Meteorite + Moon Craters

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:21 2004
Message-ID: <F26Zi71mrvoGdKO8FNp000000ac_at_hotmail.com>

Paper: La Porte City Progress
Location: La Porte City, IA
Date: Thursday, August 26 1937
Page: 4?

(Meteorite on Ice story also ran in the Lime Spring Herald (Lime Springs,
IA) the same day.)

Meteorite on Ice Served to Smithsonian Institution

     Washington. - A stone from the sky, found on the ice near Great Bear
Lake in northern Canada, has been added to the Smithsonian institution
collection of meteorites. An Indian picked it up, wondering at its
perculiar form and the fact that it was lying there on top of the ice, and
brought it to the nearest mission.
     The meteorite is about the size of a walnut, and aside from the
pecullar circumstances of its discovery is not remarkable. It is thought to
be a fragment of a much larger celestial projectile now probably at the
bottom of the water. Search for the parent body will be made next summer.
     A second meteorite recently received by the Smithsonian institution is
the only one of its kind known to exist. It consists of the mineral known
as Chiadnite, in a form different from that recorded for any previously
known meteorite.



Also on same page of article:

     Craters on the moon, an astronomical and geological puzzle for many
years, are due to violent explosions of meteorites that plunged into the
airless surface of the earth's satellite with great energy. This theory of
the lunar pockmarks was presented to the Society for Research on Meteorites
by Dr. L. J. Spencer of London.
     Only the hundred-mile blanket of air around the earth protects it from
undue damage by meteorites that still bombard it. But Dr. Spencer believes
that there must have been an earlier period during which these stray masses
of the solar system were much more numerous.

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