[meteorite-list] Crater impostor unmasked as sheep-dip

[Paul]

Crater impostor unmasked as sheep-dip 

"The supposed meteorite that supposedly caused the 
supposed “Sirente crater” in the Abruzzi mountains 
did not bring down the Roman Empire after all. Ted 
Nield reports. Geoscientist Online 19 March 2009"

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/geoscientist/geonews/page5368.html

The references given in this article are:

Bondre, N 2009: Crater or not? Nature Geoscience vol. 2 March 2009 p. 166

Ormö J et al., 2002: The Sirente Crater Field, Italy. Meteorit. 
Planet. Sci., 37 1507-1521
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2002M%26PS...37.1507O

Speranza, F et al., 2004: An anthropogenic origin of the “Sirente 
Crater”, Abruzzi, Italy. Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 39, 4, 635-649
http://www.earth-prints.org/handle/2122/3941

Speranza, F et al., 2009: The “Sirente crater field”, Italy,
revisited. Journal of Geophysical Research. vol. 114, B03103, 
doi:10.1029/2008JB005759. 
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JB005759.shtml

Yours,

Paul H.