Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p023

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S85 if their speed had been so near that of o satellite in a vacuum". It appears obvious to me that Dr, Chant has, from the very '. first report of the occurrence, assumed the objects were meteors and reached his conclusions on the basis of such an assumption. He apparently felt that they must necessarily have exceeded § “to have remained in flight, and has set his estimate of their in excess of orbital spced in order to fit his belief that the objects were in fact meteors (i.ce., they did not...