[meteorite-list] NPA 11-15-1966 Syracuse Herald, NY Meteor? Crater

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Dec 8 10:18:14 2005
Message-ID: <BAY111-F6E1E2282588BCD85279B1B3420_at_phx.gbl>

Paper: Syracuse Herald-Journal
City: Syracuse, New York
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 1966
Page: 30

Grab a shovel
Probe crater, SU asked

     Since burrowing into the ground is not the airman's forte, the Air
Force has called for help from a professor with a shovel.
     The call has gone out to the geology department at Syracuse University,
whose professors, the Air Force hopes, will probe into a four-foot deep,
seven-foot wide crater on a Venice farm.
     The search is for clues to determine whether the crater was caused by a
meteorite.
     "We wouldn't know how to dig for it ourselves, scientifically
speaking," explains Lt. Cecil Cole of Hancock Field.
     Yesterday he and Dr. Ernest H. Muller of Syracuse University visited
the site of the crater in an alfalfa field owned by Howard Lacey on Poplar
Ridge Road.
     Lacy said he discovered the hole after an explosion "that sounded like
a jet breaking the sound barrier" at 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
     "There was nothing visible at the hole, but a meteorite could be buried
several feet in the ground," Cole said today.
     "It appeared to be a meteorite-type crater and if it is a meteorite it
should be a good find, because of the size of the hole," Cole said.
     "But it's out of our hands now," he added.
     Meanwhile, Muller said that in yesterday's search he discovered
magnetic particles in the hole.
     He said he did not know whether dirt in other sections of the farm
would produce similar samples of the magnetic particles, which he plans to
examine further.

(end)

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