[meteorite-list] NPA 09-04-1965 W. Cassidy, Campo Del Cielo Meteorite = Earth Satellite

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Mar 21 13:24:58 2005
Message-ID: <BAY104-F21B78FDA4CCCBE6571A11EB3490_at_phx.gbl>

Paper: The Times Recorder
City: Zanesville, Ohio
Date: Saturday, September 4, 1965
Page: "PAGE 8 - B Section"

Ancient Earth Satellite Claimed

     NEW YORK (UPI) - A group of scientists reported yesterday that evidence
found in northern Argentina indicated that a huge natural earth satellite
broke up in the atmosphere about 5,800 years ago and deposited large
fragments in the flat, semi-arid provinces of Santiago del Estero and
Chanco.
     Writing in the current issue of Science Magazine, the group headed by
Columbia University geologist Dr. William A. Cassidy, said it discovered
nine meteorite craters extending in almost a straight line for 10 miles and
a field of smaller meteorites extending a distance of more than 45 miles
near the line.
     The article said radiocarbon dating of charcoal found under a crater
rim indicated 3835 B.C. as the maximum and probable age of the craters.
     The scientists said the great extent and extreme narrowness of the
crater field indicated a high-altitude breakup of a meteoroid in a very flat
trajectory, leading to speculation that the meteorite may have been a
natural satellite of the earth in decaying orbit. They said meteorites
found earlier in northern Chile may be fragments of the same satellite "that
made more than one revolution of the earth before coming down."
     The article said the Spanish were the first westerners to visit the
site, known as the field of the sky to local Indians, in 1576. They brought
back large pieces of iron which attracted other expeditions, one of which in
1783 turned over a large mass of iron so that it was last beneath the
earth's surface.
     The scientists dug out more than 500 meteorites weighting from 18
ounces to 78 pounds in the field of the sky area. A local farmer chanced on
a 6,000 pound meteorite with his plow and give it the Argentine government.
It is now being cut in half in Germany for structural studies of the
interior.

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