[meteorite-list] NPA 11-15-1966 Post Stanard, NY Meteor? Crater

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Post-Standard
City: Syracuse, New York
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 1966
Page: 23

May Be From Meteor
  'Magnetic Objects'
  Are Found in Hole

     VENICE - Some magnetic objects were recovered Monday by a Syracuse 
University professor from a large hole on a Venice farm in Cayuga County 
where a meteorite was reported to have fallen Sunday.
     However, the university official said he does not know if the magnetic 
objects he recovered in the hole were in any more numerous quantity than 
might be found elsewhere in the field.  He brought the objects back to the 
university where they will be washed and analyzed to determine their 
substance.
     The professor, Ernest H. Muller, was disappointed upon arrival to 
discover that the hole where the meteorite was said to have plunged, had 
been dug into so that he was unable to measure any configuration.
     There had been reports that grain and grass surrounding the hole had 
been burned.  Muller said he found no evidence of burning but reported that 
vegetation surrounding the hole had the appearance of having been stripped 
by shock waves.  Vegetation immediately adjacent to the hole was destroyed, 
and that up to 15 to 18 feet away had been stripped, he said.
     The hole where the meteorite was reported to have fallen on the farm of 
Howard Lacey, Popular Ridge road was about eight feet across and two and 
half feet deep, Muller said.
     Another Syracuse University professor may go to the farm Tuesday to 
examine the hole, and Cornell University officials told Lacey Monday they 
planned to send some investigators over Tuesday.  Ai Force officials 
inspected the hole for radioactivity Monday.
     Joseph Italiano, president of the Syracuse Astronomical Society, also 
inspected the area Monday.
     Lacey reported there was an explosion in the alfalfa field on his farm 
about 12:30 a.m. Sunday.  It shook the whole house, Lacey reported.  At 
first he thought it was a jet breaking the sound barrier.  After the blast, 
Harold Maasen, a neighbor, discovered the hole.  State police took pictures 
of the scene.

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