[meteorite-list] NPA 11-07-1951 Meen Proves Pingualuit Crater

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Hopewell Herald
City: Hopewell, New Jersey
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 1951
Page: 6 (of 10)

Returning Scientists Prove Meteor Gouged Chubb Crater

     Dr. Victor Ben Meen, geologist who returned to his Toronto home August 
23 after four week at Canada's Chubb Crater, has reported finding conclusive 
evidence that the crater was caused by a meteor smashing into the earth from 
outer space.
     Proof of the crater's meteoritic origin had been sought for nearly a 
month by Dr. Meen, leader of the National Geographic Society-Royal Ontario 
Museum Expedition working at the crater site on the sub-Arctic wasteland of 
northwestern Quebec. A prime objective of the expedition, the evidence 
establishes the crater as the largest known meteor-gouged scar on the face 
of the earth.
     Only at the 11th hour of the field visit, Dr. Meen reports, did the 
big, round, lake-filled hollow in the hard granite of the peninsula between 
the Hudson and Ungave Bays surrender its centuries-old secret.
     Three week' work with mine detectors and other specialized equipment 
had produced nothing conclusive, judged by exacting scientific standards. As 
the vanguard of the region's sub-zero winter weather began to close in, the 
expedition scientists intensified their magnetometer survey of the 
seven-mile-round crater rim. In the final 48 hours before their flyaway, 
August 22, they came dramatically upon the presence of a "magnetic anomaly" 
under the eastern portion of the pushed-up crater rim.
     A "magnetic anomaly," Dr. Meen explains, is a scientific term for a 
magnet-indicated underground metal-bearing mass. In the glacier-scoured, 
granite region of the Chub Crater, it constitutes proof of iron-bearing 
meteoritic material."

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