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The Reported Crater‐Producing Meteoritic Fall of 1947 February 12 in Eastern Siberia
Author(s) -
Paz Lincoln
Publication year - 1949
Publication title -
contributions of the meteoritical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0096-2805
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1949.tb00075.x
Subject(s) - fall of man , impact crater , history , meteorite , political science , astrobiology , law , politics , physics
In recent issues of these C ontributions , certain Russian news releases concerning the fall of crater‐producing meteorites in the Ussuri Taiga in eastern Siberia, on 1947 February 12, are quoted or abstracted. It is the purpose of this paper to record other Russian news items concerning this fall, and to point out the existence of internal inconsistencies in all such news reports; also surprising discrepancies, on the one hand, between them and the information on the Ussuri fall published by Russian meteoriticists, and, on the other hand, between them and the numerous concordant reports relating to the great Podkamennaya Tunguska, Siberia (± 1019,609), fall of 1908 June 30. A summary of the information on the Ussuri fall given in recent important papers by E. L. Krinov is presented, and attention is called to a program for the translation of Russian papers, such as Krinov's, on meteoritics, initiated in 1934–35 at the Ohio State University, by Dr. A. G. Wiens and the writer, and now resumed at the Institute of Meteoritics of the University of New Mexico by the writer, in cooperation with Dr. Alexander W. Boldyreff.