| Paper: Holland Evening Sentinel City: Holland, Michigan Date: Thursday, May 06, 1948 Page: 5
Huge Meteorite Crater Found Sydney, Australia (UP) - What is believed to be one of the World's largest meteorite craters has been found in Western Australia, reports from an oil exploration party indicate. The crater is 150 feet deep and more than half a mile in diameter. It is on the edge of a desert basin, 400 miles from the town of Broome, and 61 miles south of Hall's creek, the nearest largest airport. It was first noted June 21, 1947 during an air reconnissance flight by Frank Reeves, geologist, and N. B. Sauvo, a geophysicist. On Aug. 27, 1947, Reeves and another companion, Dudley Evans, traveled by jeep to the crater. They decided after two hours' inspection that it was of volcanic origin. Later, however, Reeves and Evans were shown pictures of the famed meteorite crater in Arizona, as depicted in the June, 1926, issue of a geographic magazine. With Dr. H. G. Raggatt, director of the commonwealth bureau of mineral resources, they decided that the Australian crater actually was of meteoric origin. Hello All, Never heard the part of the National Geographic magazine in discovering Henbury Crater's origin before. Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles. |
