[meteorite-list] New Carancas -unfortunately not the same oldcrap anymore...

[Dave Carothers]

It appears that everything Mike Farmer predicted about the crater and
"recovery efforts" has become reality.

Dave

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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Carancas -unfortunately not the same
oldcrap anymore...


Jan Hattenbach visited the remainders of the crater a month ago,
here his report and some pictures.
http://kuerzer.de/Cara

He writes, that the crater walls sank down, are much lower now and the
bottom of the crater is almost totally silted up.
The water inside is only a couple of inches deep.

So the initial objective not to look for meteoritic material, but to
preserve the crater instead, failed.

All tourist/scientific projects will have a commemorative character.

Martin



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