[meteorite-list] NPA 09-06-1946 Army-CIT Testing Artificial Meteorite

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 27 12:49:18 2005
Message-ID: <BAY104-F8B4B0951E387F659CCEE2B3CC0_at_phx.gbl>

Paper: The Berkshire Evening Eagle
City: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Date: Friday, September 6, 1946
Page: 12 (of 22)

Army Proposed Release of 'Made' Meteorites

     PASADENA, Cal. (UP) - Artificial meteorites will be released 75 miles
above the Army Ordinance proving grounds at White Sands, N.M., it was
revealed here today, to aid study in inter-planetary rocket ships.
     The meteorites, enclosed in the head of a German V-2 rocket, will be
shot into space above the earth's gravitational field by a new type of
propellant known only as "shaped charges." Plans for the experiment, until
now listed as "classified information," were revealed by Dr. Josef Johnson
of the California Institute of Technology, which will conduct the tests in
cooperation with the Army.
     "The meteorites will be composed of two types of small solid bodies,
containing certain chemicals," Dr. Johnson explained. "Some of them may
spin out with velocities exceeding seven mile a second and escape into outer
space from the earth's gravity. Others may got out with a velocity
sufficient to equalize the earth's gravity and continue in a circle around
the earth like a tiny moon."

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