[meteorite-list] NPA 07-27-1930: Paragould Meteorite Article

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Sep 18 12:04:13 2004
Message-ID: <BAY4-F131obk3dc0zz90001362f_at_hotmail.com>

Paper: Helena Independent
City: Helena, Montana
Date: Sunday, July 27, 1930
Page: 2

     Iowa City, Iowa, July 26. - An 820 pound stony meteorite that fell
near Paragould, Ark., is the largest meteoric stone ever recovered nearly
intact, Dr. C. C. Wylie, professor of astronomy at the University of Iowa,
says. The large stone is now in the Field museum of Chicago. When it fell
it seems to burst into three pieces, at a height of about five miles. A
second piece, weighing about 80 pounds has been recovered, and a third piece
may yet be discovered.
     The large stone struck in a pasture and went down in rather stiff clay
to a depth of a little over eight feet. When it burst, it produced an
explosion heard over a great area.
     The only larger stone meteorite was one that fell at an unknown date at
Long Island, Kans., which weighed more than 1,200 pounds, but which broke by
striking on a rocky ledge as it fell. Many iron meteorites are much larger.
  The biggest in a museum is one which Peary discovered in Greenland.
     It is now in the American museum of Natural History in New York and
weighs 36 1/2 tons. A still larger one was discovered a few years ago in
South Africa, but has not been removed from the site of its fall. Still
larger, probably, was a meteorite, or, more likely, a swarm of them that
fell in Siberia in 1908 and produced an air wave that was recovered on a
barometer in England.
     The famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, about a mile across, is also
supposed to have caused
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