[meteorite-list] Libyan (looks like a) crater

[Jerry Flaherty]

Sure does

--------------------------------------------------
From: "Randy Korotev" <korotev at wustl.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:21 AM
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Libyan (looks like a) crater

> Dear List:
>
> I received this intriguing e-mail today from someone I don't know.
>
> =========================
>
> Dear Randy, I am a geophysicist and had a recent trip on Libyan desert for 
> campaign of geophysical investigations, mostly GPR and Geoelectric 
> tomography. Going back to the camp I found at sunset -due to low angle 
> light- something strange on the flat desert surface.
>
> I found a perfect circular crater with melt sand scattered around . sand 
> grains are melt and embedding larger quartz grains. In my opinion that's a 
> impact crater and sand is melt because of the heat wave. Larger grains had 
> no time to melt .
>
> That melt rock has a black matrix-nothing like that in the area, also 
> there are no similar structures in that flat, flat flat  desrt surface, 
> sand is only silica and quartz grain and no dark matrix can be seen for 
> kilometers.
>
> I made a few geophysics on the spot and found big electric anomalies and 
> very anomalous readings of Geoelectric values.
>
> I took a few samples of melt rock -very heavy really.
>
> I am posting a few photos of the crater.
>
> I have another stone found at 2500 m on the bed of a melt glacier, same 
> story, that's not a stone of the area, it is like a fuse, heavy and black 
> inside with a very aerodynamic shape, I will mail you a photo ( after 
> reading once more your recommendations) if interested . for sure not a 
> human artifact or an original stone of the area.
>
> Sorry to disturb,
> ...
> =========================
> I put the photos here:
>
> http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/libyan_crater.htm
>
> The round thing in the desert looks something like a crater.  Maybe it's a 
> bomb crater.  Maybe it's a meteorite impact crater.  The rock doesn't look 
> like samples of Libyan desert glass that I've seen.  I don't know the LDG 
> story well.  Has there ever been a crater associated with the glass?
>
>
> Randy Korotev
> Saint Louis, MO
> korotev at wustl.edu
>
> ______________________________________________
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list