WORLD’S LARGEST METEORITE
—.— * THE HAVOC IT CAUSED. United Pres* Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; —United Service;. RIGA, Dec. 20. Professor Kulik, who recently located the world’s largest meteorite, which fell in far north-eastern Siberia tin 1908, in a. lecture at Moscow said the meteorite 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 mile radius. Cinema pictures showed the appalling desolation caused. The .audience shiveredl as the professor concluded: ‘‘Astronomers and geologists have known of exceptional circumstances, but there is no reason why there should l not be a similar visitation at any timo upon a more populous region. If it liaid fallen in Central Belgium there would be no living creature left in the whole country, and if it hiadl fallen on London none would be left alive.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19281221.2.30
Bibliographic details
Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 December 1928, Page 5
Word Count
147WORLD’S LARGEST METEORITE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 December 1928, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hawera Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in