[meteorite-list] 11-Million-Year-Old Impact Crater Found in Uzbekistan

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi Ron, list - 

Perhaps this was a comet fragment.  The date lines up
well with Clube and Napier's observed 26 million year
chaotic period for injection.  

I suppose we'll have to await formal publication to
see exactly what hit - 

all the best - 
ED


--- Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> 
> http://news.uzreport.com/uzb.cgi?lan=e&id=14645
> 
> Crater left by huge meteorite 11 million years ago
> found in Uzbekistan
> Uz Report
> July 11, 2006
> 
> Uzbek geologists found a large object clearly
> illustrating the 
> collision of a large meteorite with the Earth,
> press-uz.info reported. 
> The meteorite crater is located in an unpopulated
> deserted plateau 
> Ust-Yurt, located in the north-western part of the
> country.
> 
> State Committee for Geology and Mineral Resources of
> Uzbekistan said 
> the collision was so powerful it created an
> elliptical cavity. The 
> depth of the crater totals some 40 meters. The hole
> is 7 km wide and 
> 10 km long. Moreover, as a result of the collision a
> swell 60 meters 
> high and 1 km long formed in the south-eastern end
> of the plateau.
> 
> According to preliminary information, the fall of
> such a large 
> meteorite happened approximately 11 million years
> ago.
> 
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