[meteorite-list] Giant Asteroid Fragment Makes Impact

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi,

    Two things I don't believe in: coincidences and 
leprechauns.

    OK, I could be wrong about the coincidence, but I'm
right about the leprechauns, aren't I?

    I wrote: "But Morokwong is a buried crater, not visible 
on the surface. It is in fact only visualized by magnetic and
gravitational anomalies."

    A summary of the geology can be found at:
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/morokweng.htm

    An analysis of the meteoritic content of the impact melt
can be found at:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2000/pdf/1595.pdf

    Tentatively, the impactor has been identified as an L chondrite:
www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/impact2000/pdf/3048.pdf

    Hopefully, a comparison of the found fragment with the
impact melt composition anomalies will rule it in or out. If
it WAS a coincidence, I'm still on the beam with the 
leprechauns, right?


Sterling K. Webb
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> 
> Another possibility is the meteorite fragment they found was from
> another fall, and not from the impactor that created the crater.
> 
> 
> 
> Bear in mind a lot can happen geologically in 144 million years since
> the crater was formed, not to mention erosion effects.  The depth 
> the crater is at today is probably not the depth it was when it was 
> created.
> 
> Ron Baalke
>