[meteorite-list] Carancas crater

[Armando Afonso]

By the way, I have seen those milimetric holes on the surface of some 
sikhote refered as "craters".
Is that detail of terminology so important?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
To: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>; "Adam" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas crater


> Hi Mike and List Members,
>
> To me, Carancas produced an "impact pit" which is a
> form of crater. I will concede the point that it is
> also a crater by other definitions, just not
> meteoritic.  The Sikhote Alin event also produced
> several impact pits that were described as such
> further constraining the meteoritic definition of an
> impact crater.
>
> Here is a great reference site that clearly defines
> crater sizes of 5-20 meters as "impact pits".
> Carancas only produced a 13 meter mud hole squarely
> defining it as a pit.
>
> http://www.somerikko.net/old/geo/imp/listinfo.htm
>
> Pretty soon, the Carancas impact pit it will be no
> more than a depression in the ground with urine, fecal
> matter and trash in it. Not to forget, a $90,000.00
> roof will be added on top of a rotted out and the most
> common type of ordinary chondrite in existence at the
> bottom.
>
> All the best,
>
> Adam
>
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