GIGANTIC METEORITE
CAUSES APPALLING DESOLATION
United Press Association. —Ry Electrii Telegraph.—Copyright.)
R IGA, December 20
Professor Killilc, who recently located t lie world's largest meteorite, which jell in far North-Eastern Siberia in IPO.f. m a lecture at Moscow, says it demolished every sign oi animal and vegetable life over an area of 2500 square miles, and 'aid the trees Ol the surrounding forest flat lor a hundred miles’ radius.
Cinema pictures showed the appalling desolation. The audience shivered as" he concluded : “ Astronomers and geologists know the exceptional circumstances. hut there is no reason why i| ; ,.,-(. should not he a similar visitation at :;nv time upon a more populous re|f it had fallen in Central Bclgiuin. there would he no living creature left in the whole country, and il it had fallen on London, none would he left alive.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1928, Page 6
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