[meteorite-list] Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

From: Stefan Brandes <brandes_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Aug 7 15:04:06 2006
Message-ID: <000601c6ba52$5ead7b30$f49a2fd5_at_FORCEMACHINE>

Maybe it?s this formation at:

31?02'56,7''N, 36?48'23,4''E (Google Earth)

Just a guess
Stefan



>Amman, Aug. 5 (Petra)--Professor Dr. Elias Salameh / University of Jordan
>has
>announced the discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan near Jabal
>Waqf es
>Swwan. The discovery was made by Professor Dr. Elias Salameh, Professor Dr.
>Werner Schneider, and Professor Dr. Hani Khoury.
>The diameter of the outer ring of the impact site measures around 5.5 km ,
>whereas that the inner ring is 2.7 km, and the diameter of the crater is
>more
>than 100 m indicating an impactor diameter of about 100 m.

This seems to be the area mentioned in the article-- maybe someone can
Google
Earth up the crater (but resolution isn't the greatest in that area)

http://www.earthsearch.net/intSearch/jabal-waqf-es-suwan-JO.php?showMap=-974884

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