[meteorite-list] NPA 07-12-1939 Dresden Meteor from Detroit

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Edwardsville Intelligencer
City: Edwardsville, Illinois
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 1939
Page: 3 (of 8)

     DETROIT, July 11 - (AP) - A meteor, apparently of tremendous size, 
streaked northward through the sky over Lake Erie last night and 
disintegrated with a terrific concussion over Canada.
     It was visible for hundreds of miles. Residents along the Lake Huron 
and Lake Erie shores in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Canada 
reported the spectacle.
     It flashed over the outlying Detroit metropolitan area with a great 
roar that started residents. Many believed it had struck the ground.
     Police headquarters and newspaper offices were swamped with telephone 
calls from the curious. One woman excitedly reported that a freighter had 
blown up on Lake St. Clair.
     The meteor appears at 8 63 p m CST and, following a line about five 
point west of due south, lighted the horizon for several seconds. Residents 
of the area north of Detroit said it vanished in a "great puff of smoke." 
Some observers believed it was consumed near Mt. Clemens, Mich., 13 miles 
north of Detroit, but distances of meteors usually are deceiving.
     Felix Holt, news editor of radio state WXYZ, descried the meteor as a 
"tremendous ball of fire"
     "It appeared to pass east a few blocks away from me with my wife 12 
miles north of the city," he said. "Just before it reached the ground it 
went out and the concussion followed. It had anything best that I've ever 
seen."

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This article refers to the Dresden (Ontario) meteorite. This meteorite fell 
in Ontario, Canada on June 11, 1939 at 8:56pm local time (EST). Three 
specimens were recovered totaling 47.7 kg.

Reference: Meteorites A to Z: Second Edition. (2004).

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Mark Bostick
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The NPA in the subject line, stands for Newspaper Article. The old list 
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