Interesting I found this thread while trying to confirm any information about the Chicora event. Like Kevin, I ran across this while studying events in 1938 and I find something very, very unusual about this event.
There is no real publicity surrounding it. Why is this odd? Consider what year this was.
All americans were on a razors edge with what Hitler was doing overseas, and with the Recently enacted Un-American committee looking for Communists inside our boarders. Don't you think an explosion of the magnatidue from a 500 ton missle hitting our soil would have caused a big stir? If your not sure, let me refresh your memory. Later that year on October 31st, there was a Radio broadcast by Orson Wells which cause such panic, people were loading their guns and heading for shelters.
Just seems like and odd set of coinsidences to me. And I generally don't believe in coinsedences.
edit: Upon further research I found this more complete tidbit:
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Chicora 24Jun1938 LL6
On 24 June 1938, the Chicora meteorite fell in Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA. A cloud preceded the fall. Two pieces were recovered with a total mass of 300 grams. Chicora is an ordinary LL6 chondrite. LL chondrites get their name (LL = “Low Low”) because they are even lower in their iron content than the largest group of low iron ordinary chondrites, the L chondrites (L= “Low”). The LL chondrites are believed to be fragments of small or medium sized disrupted asteroids.
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