Hello everyone, Today's Sikhote article features a cool quote from Fesenkov. I suggest that everyone read, Giant Meteorites, granted a hard to find book, but one that talks about the Sikhote fall more then any other book. With this book and Peter Brown's Sky and telescope you might get a good understanding of Fesenkov. He is kind of a Kulik like legend in meteorites in Russia, and one of the more underrated meteorite people....historically. Paper: Berkshire Evening Eagle City: Pittsfield, Massachusetts Date: Thursday, May 01, 1947 Page: 2? Soviet Scientist Thinks Planet Hit Earth in February MOSCOW (AP_ - V G. Fesenkov, chairman of the meteorite committee of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, says it was possibly 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," Fezenkov reports, "that is was an exceptional phenomenon in many respects. For one thing some of the fragments smashed through the surface strata of soft 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 out planet with sufficient force to create craters is exceedingly rare," he notes.
Today Sikhote photo I am sharing is my "big" Sikhote. A 2.5 kg. piece of scrapnel. Small compared to many of the mosters in others collections. (Support the Mark needs a 200 lb. Sikhote fund). It is very skinny and will stand up and looks kind of like a bird or a dragon on two feet, but I do not have it here at the house so I can't provided really good images of it. The meteorite is downtown in a collection of meteorites I have had out on loan for close to a year. Starting to miss a couple of my cosmic friends in that glass case. You can see the Sikhote, laying on its side and upside down (dragon wise) on the following page. Of interesting note is the use of Roman's labels. http://www.meteoritearticles.com/coldowntown.html Thank you to the many list members that sent me photos of their favorite Sikhote via e-mail. While it saddens me a little that more list members would be more interested in Matteo stomping, then sharing photos of their sikhotes, I am stubborn and will continue the Sikhote thread on a few more days. Mark Bostick |
