[meteorite-list] NP Article, 08-1948 Scientists Get Evidence of Sikhote Meteorite
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:59 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV108VuBLB6fo00002f6a_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0032_01C38398.54E6B7E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Title: Portland Press Herald =20 City: Portland, Maine =20 Date: Monday, August 09, 1948 Page: 20 Soviet Scientists Get Evidence of Meteorite London, Aug. 8. (AP) - An expedition of the Soviet Academy of Science= s is back in Moscow with a collection of eyewitness stories of a giant me= teorite that fell in Siberia. A Soviet News Agency (Tass) report distrubuted by the Soviet monitor = said the expedition interviewed nearly 300 persons in 50 villages who saw= the "shooting star" before it landed Feb. 12, 1947, on a ridge north of = Vladivostok. "They all unanimously declared that the trail of the meteorite, the f= light of which was visible for four or five seconds, was brighter than th= e sunlight in clear weather in a cloudless sky on that day,' said the rep= ort. The body was said to have traveled 12 miles a second with a roar hear= d 125 miles away. Its weigh was estimated at 1,000 tons. The 30-square = mile area where the meteorite fell has been proclaimed a national reserve= . Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor= and meteorite articles. ------=_NextPart_001_0032_01C38398.54E6B7E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV> <DIV align=3D= left><B><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helveti= ca, Arial Narrow">Title: Portland Press Herald </FONT></B></DIV> <DIV ali= gn=3Dleft><B><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica, adobe-he= lvetica, Arial Narrow">City: Portland, Maine </FONT></B></DIV> <DIV align= =3Dleft><B><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helv= etica, Arial Narrow">Date: Monday, August 09, 1948</FONT></B></DIV> <DIV = align=3Dleft><B><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica, adobe= -helvetica, Arial Narrow">Page: 20</FONT></B></DIV> <DIV align=3Dleft><FO= NT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helvetica, Arial N= arrow"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=3Dleft><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face= =3D"Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow">Soviet Scientists Ge= t Evidence of Meteorite</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=3Dleft><FONT class=3DHelv= etica10 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow"><BR></FO= NT></DIV> <DIV align=3Dleft><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Arial, Helv= etica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow"> London, Aug. 8. (AP) = - An expedition of the Soviet Academy of Sciences is back in Moscow with = a collection of eyewitness stories of a giant meteorite that fell in Sibe= ria.</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=3Dleft><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Ari= al, Helvetica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow"> A Soviet News= Agency (Tass) report distrubuted by the Soviet monitor said the expediti= on interviewed nearly 300 persons in 50 villages who saw the "shooting st= ar" before it landed Feb. 12, 1947, on a ridge north of Vladivostok.</FON= T></DIV> <DIV align=3Dleft><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Arial, Helve= tica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow"> "They all unanimously = declared that the trail of the meteorite, the flight of which was visible= for four or five seconds, was brighter than the sunlight in clear weathe= r in a cloudless sky on that day,' said the report.</FONT></DIV> <DIV ali= gn=3Dleft><FONT class=3DHelvetica10 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helve= tica, Arial Narrow"> The body was said to have traveled 12 m= iles a second with a roar heard 125 miles away. Its weigh was estim= ated at 1,000 tons. The 30-square mile area where the meteorite fel= l has been proclaimed a national reserve.</FONT><BR><BR>Please visit, www= .MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite ar= ticles.</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0032_01C38398.54E6B7E0-- Received on Thu 25 Sep 2003 08:07:57 PM PDT |
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