[meteorite-list] NPA 11-07-1951 Meen Proves Pingualuit Crater

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jan 18 11:18:28 2005
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Paper: The Hopewell Herald
City: Hopewell, New Jersey
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 1951
Page: 6 (of 10)

Returning Scientists Prove Meteor Gouged Chubb Crater

     Dr. Victor Ben Meen, geologist who returned to his Toronto home August
23 after four week at Canada's Chubb Crater, has reported finding conclusive
evidence that the crater was caused by a meteor smashing into the earth from
outer space.
     Proof of the crater's meteoritic origin had been sought for nearly a
month by Dr. Meen, leader of the National Geographic Society-Royal Ontario
Museum Expedition working at the crater site on the sub-Arctic wasteland of
northwestern Quebec. A prime objective of the expedition, the evidence
establishes the crater as the largest known meteor-gouged scar on the face
of the earth.
     Only at the 11th hour of the field visit, Dr. Meen reports, did the
big, round, lake-filled hollow in the hard granite of the peninsula between
the Hudson and Ungave Bays surrender its centuries-old secret.
     Three week' work with mine detectors and other specialized equipment
had produced nothing conclusive, judged by exacting scientific standards. As
the vanguard of the region's sub-zero winter weather began to close in, the
expedition scientists intensified their magnetometer survey of the
seven-mile-round crater rim. In the final 48 hours before their flyaway,
August 22, they came dramatically upon the presence of a "magnetic anomaly"
under the eastern portion of the pushed-up crater rim.
     A "magnetic anomaly," Dr. Meen explains, is a scientific term for a
magnet-indicated underground metal-bearing mass. In the glacier-scoured,
granite region of the Chub Crater, it constitutes proof of iron-bearing
meteoritic material."

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