[meteorite-list] NPA 12-1952 La Paz, Utah Meteor Crater Wrongs
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:57 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV51gZ90yzrGq0003bbc5_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_002E_01C3D221.A97310B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paper: Independent Record =20 City: Helena, Montana =20 Date: Friday, December 10, 1952 Page: 3 Southern Utah's Craters Not Made by Meteors Alburquerque, N.M. - (AP) - Dr. Lincoln La Paz, head of New Mexico univer= sity Institute of Meteoritics, said Thursday that four small craters in s= outhern Utah weren't from meteorites. He called an apprasial by a colleague that they were from a meteorite fal= l "one of the most embarrassing scientific blunders of recent years." The craters were caysed by dynamite blasts, Dr. La Paz said. He took issue with published remarks of Dr. Richard N. Thomas of Utah uni= versity and the Harvard observatory about the craters near Antimony, Utah= Thomas wrote that members of a party he led to the craters agreed they we= re produced by a recent meteorite fall. His views were in the October iss= ue of Harvard's journal of astromony, "Sky and Telescope." La Paz made public a statement by Van A. Wiley of Antimony that the crate= rs came from detonation of dynamite left over from a ditch blasting proje= ct. Wiley said he supervised the detonation of the old dynamite. Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor= and meteorite articles. ------=_NextPart_001_002E_01C3D221.A97310B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><B><FONT size=3D= 2> <P>Paper: Independent Record </P> <P>City: Helena, Montana </P> <P>Dat= e: Friday, December 10, 1952</P> <P>Page: 3</P></B> <P> </P></FONT><= FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D2> <P>Southern Utah's Craters Not Ma= de by Meteors</P> <P> </P> <P>Alburquerque, N.M. - (AP) - Dr. Lincol= n La Paz, head of New Mexico university Institute of Meteoritics, said Th= ursday that four small craters in southern Utah weren't from meteorites.<= /P> <P>He called an apprasial by a colleague that they were from a meteor= ite fall "one of the most embarrassing scientific blunders of recent year= s."</P> <P>The craters were caysed by dynamite blasts, Dr. La Paz said.</= P> <P>He took issue with published remarks of Dr. Richard N. Thomas of Ut= ah university and the Harvard observatory about the craters near Antimony= , Utah.</P> <P>Thomas wrote that members of a party he led to the craters= agreed they were produced by a recent meteorite fall. His views were in = the October issue of Harvard's journal of astromony, "Sky and Telescope."= </P> <P>La Paz made public a statement by Van A. Wiley of Antimony that t= he craters came from detonation of dynamite left over from a ditch blasti= ng project. Wiley said he supervised the detonation of the old dynamite.<= /P></FONT><BR><BR>Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line= archive of meteor and meteorite articles.</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_002E_01C3D221.A97310B0-- Received on Sat 03 Jan 2004 06:47:31 PM PST |
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