ID | #1632415295 |
Added | Thu, 23/09/2021 |
Author | July N. |
Sources | The Hartford Courant
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Status | Result
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Initial data
Hartford, Connecticut, July 13, 1947, p.
A forest destroyed by a meteorite explosion
London, July 12. (AP). A forest of 100-year-old cedars disappeared without a trace as a result of the explosion of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite that fell in the mountains of the Siberian coast northeast of Vladivostok earlier this year, reports TASS Alma-Ata, the Kazakh Soviet Republic.
Reporting on the preliminary results of the expedition of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, which traveled through Siberia and back to investigate this phenomenon, the Soviet news agency reported:
"The expedition came to the conclusion that the main meteorite created an air cushion when it fell and disintegrated when it hit it before reaching the ground."
Original news
Hartford, Connecticut, COURANT, 13 July 1947, page
Red Forest Destroyed By Meteorite Blast
London, July 12 - (AP) - A forest of 100-years-old cedars vanished without a trace in the explosion of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite, which fell in the Siberian coastal mountains northeast of Vladivostok early this year, Tass reported tonight from Alma Ata, Kazakh Soviet republic.
Reporting preliminary findings of an expedition from the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, which travelled across Siberia and back to investigate the phenomenon, the Soviet news agency said:
"The expedition came to the conclusion that the main meteorite in its fall created an air cushion and broke up on hitting it - before reaching the earth at all."
Hypotheses
Investigation
It is not very clear what this message does in the collection about UFOs in the source. Probably, at that time it was not very clear that it was a meteorite?
The meteorite fell at 10: 38 on February 12, 1947 on the watershed of the streams Sidorenkin and Meteorite (modern name) near the village of Beitsukhe Primorsky Krai in the Ussuri taiga in the mountains Sikhote-Alin in the Far East. It shattered in the atmosphere and fell like an iron rain on an area of 35 square kilometers.
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