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Re: Fireball El Paso map repost

Thank you for posting this...I used to live in El Paso and was curious
of just where the meteorite hit. 





---Jim Dawdy  wrote:
>
> Several people have asked for a repost of the map I posted last
week.  Here
> it is.
> 
> Victor D. Noto wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jim:
> >
> > I would love to see that map of the El Paso bolide impact area you
were
> > talking to George of Meteorite Central about.
> > Also the links you used to the getting to the information from
USGS. How
> > did you go about going from the DOD long-lat information to an
actual map
> > of the impact area?  This is a find job of investigation.
> >
> > Victor Noto
> > Kissimmee, FL
> >
> > Victor Noto - vnn2@phoenixat.com
> > http://www.phoenixat.com/~vnn2/BIGROCK.htm
> >
> > "Life really is a Rock and
> > the Big Rock giveth and taketh away all life!!"
> 
>   Victor and Mark,
>     Here is the map.  The Link is
> http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html although the parent
link,
> mapping.usgs.gov is a very nice page worth checking out.
> 
> I simply queried the database for "El Paso" and state "TX" and then
clicked
> on "Show Feature Location" after the results were displayed.  This
gave me a
> map of the area with Lat and Long and I zoomed out until the
appropriate area
> was visible.  I then copied the image to disk and used Paint Shop
Pro to add
> a circle intersecting the coordinates given in the DoD report.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/gif name=ep2.gif


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