[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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