FALL OF METEORITES
SIBERIAN FOREST .DESTROYED. One thousand square miles of forest were burned, blasted and bl<Jwn down as the result of the fall of a. group of meteorites in the Jeiiisser district of Siberia, north of Irkutsk, oils June 30, 1908, according to a-vivid description of the havoc by Professor Kulik, says the “Manchester Guardian.”
The region is* so inaccessable. that it was only recently that Professor Kulik was able to reach the actual craters caused by the'meteorites, These craters are 10 to 15 yards in diameter and four.yards deep)-'Round their edges the. earth is crinkled into waves. . .
The primeval (forest was consumed, and the ground was left bare. Further away the trees were blown down like corn in a. gale. Huge blasts of hot gas, caused by the impact oi the meteorites with the earth singed the branches and foliage from the trees. The weight of the meteorites is estimated a,t 130 tons of earth. They lie buried deep in the craters. The fragments which were collected consist of iron, nickel and a little, platinum.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1930, Page 6
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