Paper: Lethbridge Herald City: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Date: Tuesday, June 17, 1947 Page: 3
100 TON METEORITE MOSCOW, June 17 - (Reuters) - A meteorite which landed last February in a mountainous area about 300 miles northeast of Viadivostok weighed about 100 tons according to evidence obtained by an expedition from the Society Academy of Science. The expedition brought back five tons of splinters - remnants of the shattered meteorite.
Hello List, I thought the "splinter" reference in this article, very accurate to most Sikhotes in our collection, slightly amusing. I could only imagine the adventure in the first couple of expeditions. Finding a crater every thirty minutes....a multi 100 kilo. sized meteorite every hour. Sigh.
Today's Sikhote photos is a 49.2g, I refer to as the Lockness. (We always see animals and birds in meteorites....perhaps Walter could tell us the deep meaning in our collectors mind for this collector habit). http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colsikhotelockness.html Mark Bostick Administrator and board member of the Kansas Meteorite Society www.meteoritearticles.com, and my new website with local college Jerry Calvert, (http://www.kansasmeteoritesociety.com) Still being worked on but worth the click Wichita, Kansas
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