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Second Catalog of Meteoritic Falls Reported to the Society for Research on Meteorites: August, 1936, to December, 1938 *
Author(s) -
Nininger Addie D.
Publication year - 1939
Publication title -
contributions of the society for research on meteorites
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0096-2813
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1939.tb00219.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , impact crater , astrobiology , geology , archaeology , geography , physics
A list of 82 new discoveries (S.R.M. provisional nos. 101–182) has been added to the catalog of the known meteoritic falls of the world since August, 1936. (See ref. no. 1, post .) Outstanding features of this list are 5 authentic reports of houses which have been struck by falling meteorites. The discovery of a new meteoritic crater has been made, and a meteorite was found while a hole was being dug for a post. It is pointed out that the major portion of these new discoveries has resulted from the systematic search which is being carried on in the Great Plains region of the United States by and under the direction of the American Meteorite Laboratory of Denver, Colorado.