Title: Portland Press Herald City: Portland, Maine Date: Monday, August 09, 1948 Page: 20 Soviet Scientists Get Evidence of Meteorite London, Aug. 8. (AP) - An expedition of the Soviet Academy of Sciences is back in Moscow with a collection of eyewitness stories of a giant meteorite that fell in Siberia. A Soviet News Agency (Tass) report distrubuted by the Soviet monitor said the expedition interviewed nearly 300 persons in 50 villages who saw the "shooting star" before it landed Feb. 12, 1947, on a ridge north of Vladivostok. "They all unanimously declared that the trail of the meteorite, the flight of which was visible for four or five seconds, was brighter than the sunlight in clear weather in a cloudless sky on that day,' said the report. The body was said to have traveled 12 miles a second with a roar heard 125 miles away. Its weigh was estimated at 1,000 tons. The 30-square mile area where the meteorite fell has been proclaimed a national reserve. Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles. |
