HUGE CRATERS
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ACTION OF METEORITES
(Beceived 10th, July, 10 ai.)^ ADELAIDE; This Day. Thirteen large craters, blasted inta' the face of the earth thousands of years ago by a huge meteorite so heavy that, if it were to fall on Adelaide to-day,; it would destroy the whole metropolitan; area, have been, found in 7 Central Australia. Three of them are larger than.] the biggest crater made >by the meteorite that fell in' Northern Siberia twentythree years ago and devastated hundreds of square miles of forest land. Professor Kulik, of Leningrad, who has led three expeditions to the Yenisei rogion of Siberia where a great meteorite struck the earth in June, .1908, recently stated-that the, central area of the fall was pitted with holes 60 metres in .diameter, and that the devastated area was 12 miles in diameter.. Outside this was a 25 mile ring of felled trees and- partially felled trees in a ring up to 75 miles in diameter. The noise waa hoard at points within a circle of 2000; miles. I* remains uncertain whether; the meteorite struck the earth or-mere-ly gave it a glancing blow. ■ So^far no> metoorito has been discovered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 9, 10 July 1931, Page 7
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196HUGE CRATERS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 9, 10 July 1931, Page 7
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