CREATING MAN-MADE METEORITES
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ROCKET EXPliRlMEXf SLUGS MAY CONTINUE INTO OUTER SPACE
-Rec. 9.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 18. The Army successfully lapnched another German V-2 rocket from the New Mexico range to-night but refused to comment on the simultaneous experiment in cr.eating manmade meteorites. The intention was to hurl small motai slugs into the outer atmosphere from the nose of the V-2 at an altitude of 40 miles. It was hoped some slugs would attain a velocity of seven miles a second, which was sufficieiit to enable them to overcome the earth's gravity and thus continue into outer space. Some slugs would swing into orbits around the earth and others would hurl into the atmosphere, becoming incandescent by contact with it.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5282, 19 December 1946, Page 5
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