[meteorite-list] NPA 12-15-1946 Army-CIT Artificial Meteorites Test

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Port Arthur News
City: Port Arthur, Texas
Date: Sunday, December 15, 1946
Page: 7 (of 32)

German Rocket To Launch Meteorites In Test on Tuesday

     PASADENA, Cal., Dec. 14 (UP). - The key to interplanetary travel may be 
found in an experiment at White Sands, N.M., next Tuesday night when 
scientists use a German V-2 rocket to launch man-made meteorites height 
above the earth's surface.
     Dr. Fritz Zwicky, 48-year-old scientist from the California Institute 
of Technology made the prediction before leaving to witness the experiment, 
which he conceived.
    "In search for the key to space travel."  the Belgian-born scientist 
said, "We first throw a little something into the skies, then a little more, 
then a shipload of instruments - and then ourselves.
     "This experiment is one of the very first steps in that process."
     Hundred of metal fragments will be exploded from the V-2's warhead at 
almost 20,000 feet a second - four times the rocket's own speed.  If any of 
the synthetic meteorites reach the "velocity of escape," seven miles a 
second, they may tear away from Earth's gravity into outer space.

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Clear Skies,
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