[meteorite-list] Hadeeda Craters

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, Kevin,

    There are various transcriptions from the Arabic,
including Hadid and Um-Hadid. It os often listed as
one of the Wabar craters:
    "Um-Hadid  0.01 km. Mentioned in CoM 1985:
"...found in region of the Wabar crater." Silica glass
and weathered fragments of iron meteorites (largest
1kg) found. Coordinates give in CoM: 21°30'N, 50°40'E
approximately.
See F. El-Baz and A. El Goresy, Meteoritics, vol.6, p.265, 1971."

ARN says:
Um-Hadid....................................21'41'42' N., 50'35'48' E.
Rub'al Khali, Saudi Arabia
Found
Stony-iron.  Mesosiderite (MES).
Oxidized fragments up to 1kg in weight were found associated with
a crater 10 metres in diameter 15.4kg collected .

And so forth. It's not well-documented.

Try Googling Um-Hadid.


Sterling K. Webb
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Hadeeda Craters


>
>
> Hello list,
>
> Anyone have any more info on this crater complex.
>
> There are only three mentions on google.
>
> http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=79071&d=12&m=3&y=2006
>
> (snip)
>
>
> He told the audience that it offered numerous possibilities for future 
> research. He said that parts of Saudi Arabia had been much wetter in early 
> times and there was a thriving Savannah where now there was sand.
>
> "The lakes and water tables that remain should be studied in order to 
> reconstruct the history of the climate and then project it forward to 
> enable us to understand how this area will develop in the future."
>
> The expedition visited the Hadeeda Craters - site of a famous meteor 
> impact - in the southwestern Al-Rub Al-Khali. Professor Matter said that 
> samples of the meteorite were being sold on the Internet for considerable 
> sums to collectors.
>
> Drawing on his experience with meteor fragments in Oman where he set up a 
> program to recover fragments from the desert, he said that the program had 
> recovered meteorite fragments from the moon and even one from Mars. 
> Collectors though, he said, had robbed the desert of its heritage simply 
> for money and not for scientific research.
>
> The Al-Rub Al-Khali showed indications of considerable groundwater water 
> resources, said Professor Muhammad Sultan of Western Michigan University. 
> "We have to do our homework and to establish its whereabouts and how much 
> we can take out of it so that we can set up sustainable development of 
> this area. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we are on the right 
> track."
>
>