DAYLIGHT METEOR MAY HAVE HIT EARTH
REPORTS COMPARED (P.A.) Wellington, July 15. Contrary to the impression gained by many who saw the meteor which fell in daylight on July 8 it was not close to them, but many miles away. By comparing more than 200 reports the Carter Observatory officials have concluded that the path of the meteor was from 130 miles to the cast of Napier to near Timaru. Its height at the beginning would be 95 miles above the earth, and when it passed 70 miles south-east of Wellington it would still be 47 miles above the earth. The Director of the Observatory. Mr. I. L. Thomsen, states that there seems to be a distinct possibility that it could have landed in the South Island, but its path is not known accurately enough to indicate just where a search might be made. At Pleasant Point, near Timaru. the meteor was seen projected against a hill, so it may have reached the earth in that locality.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 163, 16 July 1946, Page 5
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