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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Telescope the latest "astronomical facts concerning the end of the world": About a ton of pulverized meteorites fall on the earth's surface each day, do no damage. But, points out Coles, the famed 1908 meteorite that fell in northern Siberia showed what a meteor could do. It knocked forests flat for 30 miles, blew a man off his doorstep 50 miles away. Its roar was heard more than 400 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Burn | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Boom Town. In Meteor City, Ariz., Sole Resident Jack Newsome got married, doubled the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...proposal that the moon be bombed was made in dead earnest last week by Meteor-Expert H. H. Nininger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Interplanetary Travel | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...instance) by shooting out side-blasts of gas or radiation. When returning to earth, they could be slowed down gradually by coasting in a lopsided spiral through the outer fringes of the atmosphere. If they should hit the denser air unbraked, they would turn as white-hot as a meteor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Interplanetary Travel | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Thus 1946 took up where 1945 had left off-and in the same area. Only 16 nights before, only 64 miles to the north, the Seaboard's west coast Silver Meteor had knifed into cars of the northbound Sun Queen, killing six, injuring 62. Seventy-two hours later, a Southern Railway freight had piled up on the rear of a New Orleans-New York limited, killing three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Wreckingest | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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