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Great Spirit. One Indian finding was negative, and damaging to a colorful legend-that the meteor crater near Canyon Diablo in Arizona was feared and shunned superstitiously by the Indians. Legend has it that the crater was regarded as the place where the Great Spirit appeared as a huge ball of fire and plunged into the earth. This story, according to Professor Lincoln La Paz, meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, even penetrated scientific writings and was used as "proof" that the meteor fell at a date when the region had human inhabitants to witness its fall...
...announcing that he had found, close to the lip of the crater, a pit house of prehistoric, 1000 A.D. Indians who obviously did not fear the place too much to live there. He suspects that the legend was invented recently by white men. Geological evidence indicates that the meteor probably fell more than 50,000 years ago, when it is unlikely that humans were around to be frightened...
Fred L. Whipple, associate professor of Astronomy and chairman of the department, has been raised to a full professor ship, Provost Buck announced last night. Whipple, a member of the faculty for 18 years, is currently heading the University's meteor project for the Navy...
HOUSTON RADAR. The rival Post exploded the story: the Humble Oil Co. had made the radar pickup in 1947, thought it might have been caused by a meteor. Probably the wildest story appeared...
Other enthusiasts have worked out the chances of getting hit by meteors. They think it might be well to clothe a space ship with a thin "meteor bumper...