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WORLD'S LARGEST METEORITE WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RIGA. December 20. Professor Knlik, who recently located the world’s largest meteorite, which fell in the far north of Eastern Siberia in 1908, in a lecture at Moscow said it demolished every sign of animal and vegetable life over all area of 2,500 square miles and laid trees in the surrounding forest Hat for a 100-mile radius. Cinema pictures showed the appalling desolation, and the audience shivered as lie concluded: “ Astronomers and geologists know the 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 had fallen in Central Belgium there would be no living creature left in the whole country, and if it had fallen on London none would bo-left alive.”—United Scrvice.
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Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 8
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