[meteorite-list] Fwd: Meteorite crater mystery/trip

From: Jason Utas <meteoritekid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:07:11 -0800
Message-ID: <93aaac890801100107h5e9624f3xd7a09fa7e51adb7d_at_mail.gmail.com>

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Hola Graham, All,
Been busy with college apps these past few weeks, and am getting
caught up with emails right now...

Well, there are a few options, all of which are in southern Mongolia:

1) Tabun-Khara-Obo Meteorite Crater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun-Khara-Obo_crater

2) Possible meteorite crater I marked more than a year ago.

44.03.53N 98.59.11E

3) And another.

46.02.52N 99.23.05E

Much of the area isn't imaged in good-enough quality to make for
worthwhile looking (at least in my free version of Google Earth), but
I've yet to try Worldwind...

Regards,
Jason



On Jan 9, 2008 6:39 PM, ensoramanda <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone help to identify the structure I photographed in the link at
> the end of this post?
>
> I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. I have just managed
> to plough through the huge backlog of posts from everyone after a 5 week
> trip to Australia via Hongkong. I managed to visit many meteorite
> related sites on the journey...the Cranbourne strewn field and display
> just south of Melbourne...passed by Pinnaroo and Karoonda and through to
> Adelaide for a look at their huge Mundrabilla and a great meteorite
> display...then drove on up for a walk around the Henbury Craters and
> Alice Springs...another good display there at the Museum in the Cultural
> centre...fantastic selection of Henburys. The second part of the trip
> was on the West coast and Perth....another amazing museum full of
> space rocks there...with the other large Mundrabilla alongside many
> others from the Nullabor. Futher north we had a good day walking around
> the Pinacles..a very surreal landscape and the site of another meteorite
> find. All in all a memorable trip with loads of photographs and 3000
> miles of driving!. I will try and upload some of the collections we
> visited and post links if anybody is interested.
>
> Anyway...back to the original request. On the Dec 1st flight out to Oz
> we passed over northern China...a wonderful view of the mountains and
> deserts from 35000 ft. Again I took far too many photographs out of the
> plane window...but caught this shot of a very interesting structure,
> which looks incredibly like a huge impact crater or astobleme to me. I
> have not been able to confirm what it is and wondered if anyone else on
> the list had ever seen it or could identify it? Been trying google earth
> but no luck yet. The scale can be judged to some extent by the small
> settlement nearer the foreground.
>
> Here's the link...
>
> http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o43/LaburnumStudio/Craters/Crater-.jpg
>
> Hope those of you heading for Tucson this time have as good a time as I
> had last year. Sadly I cant make it.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham Ensor, Nr Barwell UK.
>
>
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