Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1929 — Page 10

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GIANT METEORS SELDOM CAUSE LOSS TO MAN Largest Found Weighs 70 Tons; Fall in Siberia Kills Reindeer. By Science Sa ><■<: WASHINGTON. Man h 29—The seventy-ton meteor reported from South Africa i; the world's larges* actually discovered, but It is probably dwarfed by the one which many years ago caused the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona. This is the opinion of Dr. George P. Merrill, famous meteor expert of the United States National Museum here. The great meteor which fell In the Yenissei Province of Siberia on June 30, 1908, was also probably much larger, but as yet the main part oi neither of these has been located. Another huge crater, due to a meteor that rell some time in the past, was discovered in the Pamir, in central Asia, near Afghanistan. This latter crater is a conical pit 260 feet in diameter and 33 feet deep. The 1908 Siberian meteor is probably the largest that has ever struck , the earth. The region of the fall is over a mile in diameter in a marshy region. The ground is pitted with deep funnels from 50 to 100 feet in diameter, so that probably the; meteorite, with a weight estimated 1 at half a million tons, burst to pieces, bombarding the earth with • fragments. At the towns of Kerensk and; Tlimsk, 250 miles away, great detonations were heard and pillars oi smoke and lire were seen. Rail- j road officials at Kansk, 400 miles j distant, felt the air wave and heard j a roaring sound, while the seismo- | graph at Irkutsk, 900 miles aw’ay, j detected the vibration of the earth , when it hit. Though no human beings happened to be in its path, one herd of 1,500 reindeer belonging to a farmer was annihilated. Only a few scorched carcasses remained, i Houses were badly damaged, and j metal utensils were melted. Trees on surrounding hills were scorched and knocked over, where they can still be seen with their tops pointing away from the center. An expedition : ent out by the Soviet government ' tudied the general character oi the region. Later borings will be made for pieces of the actual meteorite. This a the first authenticated time that a meteorite did damage to man or animals.* It is fortunate that it fell in such a sparsely settled region, and not in a large city, like New York or London. The South African meteor is reported to h • - been found at Otjihaene, near the head of the Groot- ; fontein railway, in the northeastern part cl southwest Africa. Imbedded in sott limestone its approximate s>ze is 10x10x4 feet. The largest goldfish “farm” in the United States is near Martinsville,

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