[meteorite-list] Largest 'Fall' Meteorite

Kelly Beatty jkellybeatty at comcast.net
Tue Oct 27 11:09:48 EDT 2009


Jason et al...

> Only two meteorites are ever known to have created real craters upon
> falling; Carancas and Sikhote-Alin.

there's also Sterlitamak, a 1990 fall in Russia that left a 10-m crater:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992Metic..27R.276P


clear skies,
Kelly

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