[meteorite-list] NP Article, 10-1939 Searching Odessa Crater

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:46 2004
Message-ID: <OE40NYbDwMWbNsCBifv00000a8c_at_hotmail.com>

Title: Zanesville Signal
City: Zanesville, Ohio
Date: Thursday, October 12, 1939

WPA Laborers Search For Meteor in Texas

     ODESSA, TEXAS - (UP) - A crew of twenty WPA laborers are digging eight
miles southeast of here in search of a meteor that struck the earth many
years ago and left a crater 500 feet in diameter.
     Dr. E. H. Sellards, University of Texas geologist, said that the only
known crater of larger size is the mile-wide Canyon Diablo pit in Arizona.
Dr. Sellards discovered the Ector county cater in 1927 and determined that
it was caused by an "iron" meteorite that struck the earth "thousands of
years ago."
     The geologist did not predict how large a meteor may be found buried at
the bottom of the crater.
     "It may easily have exploded at the impact." Dr. Sellards said. "We
have already found several fragments."
     The excavation is expected to furnish considerable information about
the effect of a meteor falling to earth. A two-mile branch road has been
built to the project, which is expected to be finished within a year.
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