HIT BY METEORS
TWO NOTABLE .EXAMPLES.
VAST AREA OF FOREST DESTROYED.
What happens if a meteor strikes the earth? For the most part, are small, but this is not always the case. A.meteor that landed in Arizona, U.S.A., some 50,000 years ago? is estimated to have weighed between 1,000.000 and 14,000,000 tons. It must have produced quite sensational results. Anyway, it dug a hole for itself 600 feet deep and 4500 feel across. All that is known is the effect that a meteor of .120 tons can produce. When this present from the sky landed in a Siberian forest on June 30, 1908. all the trees for 40 miles around were uprooted, and 1000 square miles of forest obliterated. At 10 p.m. at Aberdeen, the glare from the meteor caused the evening to become as light as day. A false dawn occurred in London, which experts at the time were unable to explain. A violent trembling of the barometer occurred and lasted for a quarter of an hour. Peasants nearby in Siberia reported a severe earthquake, accompanied by- rumblings. They stated that a terrible explosion occurred which killed all forest, life for miles. It was not till 22 years after that an expedition discovered what had happened and all the queer phenomena were explained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 9
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214HIT BY METEORS Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 9
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