[meteorite-list] NPA 11-15-1966 Post Stanard, NY Meteor? Crater

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Dec 8 10:17:13 2005
Message-ID: <BAY111-F102DFDA7A0BE2953FE802BB3420_at_phx.gbl>

Paper: The Post-Standard
City: Syracuse, New York
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 1966
Page: 23

May Be From Meteor
  'Magnetic Objects'
  Are Found in Hole

     VENICE - Some magnetic objects were recovered Monday by a Syracuse
University professor from a large hole on a Venice farm in Cayuga County
where a meteorite was reported to have fallen Sunday.
     However, the university official said he does not know if the magnetic
objects he recovered in the hole were in any more numerous quantity than
might be found elsewhere in the field. He brought the objects back to the
university where they will be washed and analyzed to determine their
substance.
     The professor, Ernest H. Muller, was disappointed upon arrival to
discover that the hole where the meteorite was said to have plunged, had
been dug into so that he was unable to measure any configuration.
     There had been reports that grain and grass surrounding the hole had
been burned. Muller said he found no evidence of burning but reported that
vegetation surrounding the hole had the appearance of having been stripped
by shock waves. Vegetation immediately adjacent to the hole was destroyed,
and that up to 15 to 18 feet away had been stripped, he said.
     The hole where the meteorite was reported to have fallen on the farm of
Howard Lacey, Popular Ridge road was about eight feet across and two and
half feet deep, Muller said.
     Another Syracuse University professor may go to the farm Tuesday to
examine the hole, and Cornell University officials told Lacey Monday they
planned to send some investigators over Tuesday. Ai Force officials
inspected the hole for radioactivity Monday.
     Joseph Italiano, president of the Syracuse Astronomical Society, also
inspected the area Monday.
     Lacey reported there was an explosion in the alfalfa field on his farm
about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. It shook the whole house, Lacey reported. At
first he thought it was a jet breaking the sound barrier. After the blast,
Harold Maasen, a neighbor, discovered the hole. State police took pictures
of the scene.

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