[meteorite-list] NP Article, 05-1948 Henbury Craters
From: ROCKS ON FIRE <meteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:45 2004 Message-ID: <4046756E.4090803_at_optushome.com.au> --------------070102050801040007020709 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Mark, list, this is not Henbury, that is WOLFE CREEK. ;-) Best regards from DOWN-UNDER, Norbert & Heike Kammel ROCKS ON FIRE IMCA #3420 www.rocksonfire.com <%3Fhttp://www.rocksonfire.com%3F> MARK BOSTICK wrote: > 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 > largest 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 > Frank Reeves, geologist, and N. B. Sauvo, a geophysicist. On Aug. 27, > 1947, Reeves and another companion, Dudley Evans, traveled by jeep to > the crater. > > They decided after two hours' inspection that it was of volcanic origin. > > Later, however, Reeves and Evans were shown pictures of the famed > meteorite crater in Arizona, as depicted in the June, 1926, issue of a > geographic magazine. With Dr. H. G. Raggatt, director of the > commonwealth bureau of 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 Henbury Crater's origin before. > > > > > Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of > meteor and meteorite articles. --------------070102050801040007020709 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------090203010203090508000901" --------------090203010203090508000901 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Hi, Mark, list,<br> <br> this is <b>not </b>Henbury, that is <b>WOLFE CREEK</b>.<span class="moz-smiley-s3"><span> ;-) </span></span><br> <div class="moz-signature"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; "> <meta name="author" content="Norbert F. Kammel"> <title>Best_regards</title> <p><font color="#000000">Best regards from DOWN-UNDER,<br> <br> Norbert & Heike Kammel<br> <b> ROCKS ON FIRE</b><br> IMCA #3420</font><br> <a href="%3Fhttp://www.rocksonfire.com%3F">www.rocksonfire.com</a> <br> <img src="http://images.andale.com/f2/113/103/4948211/1028507254564_logosmallerGIF.gif" alt="" width="140" height="85"> </p> </div> <br> <br> MARK BOSTICK wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="midBAY4-DAV296qK0Nuzud00007e0f_at_hotmail.com"><font size="2"> <p>Paper: Holland Evening Sentinel</p> <p>City: Holland, Michigan</p> <p>Date: Thursday, May 06, 1948</p> <p>Page: 5</p> <p> </p> <p>Huge Meteorite Crater Found</p> <p>Sydney, Australia (UP) - What is believed to be one of the World's largest meteorite craters has been found in Western Australia, 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 edge of a desert basin, 400 miles from the town of Broome, and 61 miles south 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, geologist, and N. B. Sauvo, a geophysicist. On Aug. 27, 1947, Reeves and another companion, Dudley Evans, traveled by jeep to the crater.</p> <p>They decided after two hours' inspection that it was of volcanic origin.</p> <p>Later, however, Reeves and Evans were shown pictures of the famed meteorite crater in Arizona, as depicted in the June, 1926, issue of a geographic magazine. With Dr. H. G. Raggatt, director of the commonwealth bureau of mineral resources, they decided that the Australian crater actually was of meteoric origin.</p> </font> <div><br> </div> <div>Hello All,</div> <div> </div> <div>Never heard the part of the National Geographic magazine in discovering Henbury Crater's origin before. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><br> Please visit, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.MeteoriteArticles.com">www.MeteoriteArticles.com</a>, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles.</div> </blockquote> <br> <div class="moz-signature"> <p><br> <br> <br> <br> </p> </div> <br> </body> </html> --------------090203010203090508000901-- --------------070102050801040007020709-- Received on Wed 03 Mar 2004 07:16:46 PM PST |
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