Paper: Oxnard Press-Courier
City: Oxnard, Ca
Date: Tuesday, August 08, 1950
Page: 7
Meteor Crater, Largest of All, Found in Canada
TORONTO, Ont. (U.P.) - A 2 1/4 mile wide crate caused by a meteor,
believe to be the largest in he world, has been discovered in an uninhabited
section of the northern Quebec peninsula.
The 5,000-year-old crater will dwarf the large previously known, the El
Diablo near Winslow, Ariz., which measures only 4/5th of a mile in width,
according to the world copyright story in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
The crater was discovered from an aerial photograph of the Koksoak
River Plain, midway between Ungave and Hudson Bay. The newspaper and the
Univeristy of Toronto sponsored an expedition to the site headed by Dr. V.
Ben Meen, director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Geology and Minerology.
Meen said the meteorite must have weighed millions of tons to have
blasted an estimated 10 million tons of granite out of the earth.
The meteor could have "wiped out any city on the continent today." Meen
said. If a comparable meteor hit New York City, it would oblterate
Manhattan Island and destory life for a 100-mile radius.
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