[meteorite-list] NP Article, 05-1948 Henbury Craters
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:45 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV296qK0Nuzud00007e0f_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C40145.6B971090 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paper: Holland Evening Sentinel City: Holland, Michigan Date: Thursday, May 06, 1948 Page: 5 Huge Meteorite Crater Found Sydney, Australia (UP) - What is believed to be one of the World's larges= t meteorite craters has been found in Western Australia, reports from an = oil exploration party indicate. The crater is 150 feet deep and more than half a mile in diameter. It is = on the edge of a desert basin, 400 miles from the town of Broome, and 61 = miles south of Hall's creek, the nearest largest airport. It was first noted June 21, 1947 during an air reconnissance flight by Fr= ank Reeves, geologist, and N. B. Sauvo, a geophysicist. On Aug. 27, 1947,= Reeves and another companion, Dudley Evans, traveled by jeep to the crat= er. They decided after two hours' inspection that it was of volcanic origin. Later, however, Reeves and Evans were shown pictures of the famed meteori= te crater in Arizona, as depicted in the June, 1926, issue of a geographi= c magazine. With Dr. H. G. Raggatt, director of the commonwealth bureau o= f mineral resources, they decided that the Australian crater actually was= of meteoric origin. Hello All, Never heard the part of the National Geographic magazine in discovering H= enbury Crater's origin before. =20 Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor= and meteorite articles. ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C40145.6B971090 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><FONT size=3D2> <P>= Paper: Holland Evening Sentinel</P> <P>City: Holland, Michigan</P> <P>Dat= e: Thursday, May 06, 1948</P> <P>Page: 5</P> <P> </P> <P>Huge Meteor= ite Crater Found</P> <P>Sydney, Australia (UP) - What is believed to be o= ne of the World's largest meteorite craters has been found in Western Aus= tralia, reports from an oil exploration party indicate.</P> <P>The crater= is 150 feet deep and more than half a mile in diameter. It is on the edg= e of a desert basin, 400 miles from the town of Broome, and 61 miles sout= h of Hall's creek, the nearest largest airport.</P> <P>It was first noted= June 21, 1947 during an air reconnissance flight by Frank Reeves, geolog= ist, and N. B. Sauvo, a geophysicist. On Aug. 27, 1947, Reeves and anothe= r companion, Dudley Evans, traveled by jeep to the crater.</P> <P>They de= cided after two hours' inspection that it was of volcanic origin.</P> <P>= Later, however, Reeves and Evans were shown pictures of the famed meteori= te crater in Arizona, as depicted in the June, 1926, issue of a geographi= c magazine. With Dr. H. G. Raggatt, director of the commonwealth bureau o= f mineral resources, they decided that the Australian crater actually was= of meteoric origin.</P></FONT> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV>Hello All,</DI= V> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Never heard the part of the National Geographic= magazine in discovering Henbury Crater's origin before. </DIV> <DI= V> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>Please visit,= www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorit= e articles.</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C40145.6B971090-- Received on Wed 03 Mar 2004 06:31:54 PM PST |
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