[meteorite-list] sikhote-alin newspaper

From: marco.langbroek_at_wanadoo.nl <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:00:05 2004
Message-ID: <1025961404.3d26edbc90834_at_webmail3.wanadoo.nl>

> Not much of an article. Not sure why either. Russia was not on "good =
> terms" with the Americans after the war but the Berlin Wall was not =
> built untill 1961. So why take 4 months to tell the world in two lines =
> that a meteorite fell? Any thoughts?
>
> Mark Bostick

Hi Mark,

Relations were strained well before the wall was build. The Berlin Blockade
(after which followed the famous Berlin airbridge) started only 1.5 years after
Sikhote-Alin, in the summer of 1948.

Marco

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