Paper: Reno Evening Gazette City: Reno, Nevada Date: Monday, April 28, 1947 Page: 9
Russians Study Meteorite Fall MOSCOW, April 28 (AP) - V. G. Fesenkov, chairman of the meteorite committee of the USSR Academy of Science, said today it was possible that a minor planet collided with the earth on Feb. 12, 1947, when a missile, described as a meteorite, fell in eastern Siberia. "It is now becoming increasingly clear," Fesenkov stated, "that it was an exceptional phenomenon in many respects. For one thing some of the fragments smashed through the surface state of soil and penetrated into bedrock, leaving several dozen craters, the biggest of them about 75 feet in diameter. "The combination of circumstances required for a heavenly body to strike our planet with sufficient force to create craters is exceedingly rare." Fesenkov said that it was "quite possible that what happened in the far east was the collision of a minor planet with the earth." He said a Soviet expedition was studying the area where the missile fell. Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles. |
