HUGE METEORITE BLOTS OUT LIFE OVER 2500 MILES.
LARGE AREA OF SIBERIA DEVASTATED. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) RIGA, December 20. Professor Kulik, who recently located the world’s largest meteorite, which fell in the far north of Eastern Siberia in 1908. said im a lecture at Moscow that it demolished every sign of animal and vegetable life over an area of 2500 square miles. It laid trees and the surrounding forest flat for a radius of 100 miles. Cinema pictures showed appalling desolation. The audience shivered as he concluded : “ Astronomers and geologists know that 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 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 be left alive.”-—United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 6
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