[meteorite-list] NPA 09-06-1946 Army-CIT Testing Artificial Meteorite

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Berkshire Evening Eagle
City: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Date: Friday, September 6, 1946
Page: 12 (of 22)

Army Proposed Release of 'Made' Meteorites

     PASADENA, Cal. (UP) - Artificial meteorites will be released 75 miles 
above the Army Ordinance proving grounds at White Sands, N.M., it was 
revealed here today, to aid study in inter-planetary rocket ships.
     The meteorites, enclosed in the head of a German V-2 rocket, will be 
shot into space above the earth's gravitational field by a new type of 
propellant known only as "shaped charges."  Plans for the experiment, until 
now listed as "classified information," were revealed by Dr. Josef Johnson 
of the California Institute of Technology, which will conduct the tests in 
cooperation with the Army.
     "The meteorites will be composed of two types of small solid bodies, 
containing certain chemicals,"  Dr. Johnson explained.  "Some of them may 
spin out with velocities exceeding seven mile a second and escape into outer 
space from the earth's gravity.  Others may got out with a velocity 
sufficient to equalize the earth's gravity and continue in a circle around 
the earth like a tiny moon."

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