WORLD’S LARGEST METEORITE
DISCOVERED IN SIBERIA DEVASTATION WROUGHT OVER WIDE AREA (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copy right.) (United Service.) (Rec. December 20, 11.30 p.m.) Riga, December 20. Professor Kulik, who recently located the world’s largest meteorite, which fell in far nor-eastern Siberia in 1908, in a lecture at Moscow, said that it demolished every sign of animal and vegetable life over an area of 2500 square miles. It laid the trees of the surrounding forest flat for a hundred miles radius. Kinema pictures showed appalling desolation. The audience shivered as the Professor concluded: “Astronomers and geologists know there were exceptional circumstances, but there is no reason why there should not be a similar visitation at any time upon a more populous region. If it bad fallen in Central Belgium, there would be no living creature left in the whole country, and if it had failed on London none would be left alive.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 7
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