[meteorite-list] NPA 08-10-1933 Sioux County Meteorite (different article)

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Oct 4 16:59:04 2004
Message-ID: <BAY4-F15SzxdWGHpPnq00026e84_at_hotmail.com>

Paper: Lincoln Star
City: Lincoln, Nebraska
Date: Thursday, August 10, 1933
Page: 5

Report Meteor Buried in Field Near Alliance

     ALLIANCE, Neb., Aug. 10 - (AP) The spot where a huge meteor which shook
western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming Tuesday landed, was believed located
yesterday about 35 northwest of here.
     First reports said the meteor buried itself in a field, leaving a hole
25 feet or more across.
     The meteor was seen by many persons in western Nebraska as it streaked
northward across the sky leaving a long trailing plume of white smoke.
     Persons 20 miles north of here saw the meteor apparently explode almost
directly west of them with the largest mass of it falling to earth.
     To those watchers came a booming roar almost three minutes later. The
roar lasted about 30 seconds, a farmer, N.B. Jacobson, who hard it from the
field said.
     Calls were received here from as far away as Scottsbluff, where the
meteor also was seen, asking where the giant explosion was. Telephone lines
were busy long after the report as people believed an earthquake or great
explosion had occurred. Dished and windows in homes 15 to 20 miles away
were rattled by the concussion.

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Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticles.com
Received on Mon 04 Oct 2004 04:58:54 PM PDT