[meteorite-list] Possible Ancient Impact Crater USA

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:59:50 -0400
Message-ID: <BAY141-W28EEF0C32BD26A4A0939B1F8050_at_phx.gbl>

Hi, All,

This news item was released a few days ago, and was discussed somewhat on another List I subscribe to.
Any thoughts?

The coordinates are:
43:06'42.49" N
71:11'24.44" W

A Google Earth search for Nottingham, New Hampshire, will land you just east of the site.
At twelve km. altitude it just comes into view on the left.

When tilted, the structure is quite evident - I just wonder how it was overlooked for so long!

Cheers,
Pete



http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS01/803140369
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS01/803140369

A Pembroke man was playing with Google Earth - an online digital map of the planet - when he came across something that seemed out of this world: an apparent meteorite crater in Pawtuckaway State Park in Nottingham.

"I was just searching around on Google, looking at lakes, because I'm a sailor," said Stephen Dupuis, 52. "As I was panning down through the landscape, it kind of caught my eye."

Dupuis, a multimedia artist, has been fascinated with astronomy and outer space since his father, a former engineer, built the heat shields used for the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s.

What he saw in Nottingham stirred his interest. He researched impact craters online and wrote to the Earth Impact Database, which is run out of the University of New Brunswick. Nobody has responded yet.

"They didn't show anything in New Hampshire," he said of the database's maps. "Maybe somebody now will look at this and say, 'Hey that is a crater.' "

So far, Dupuis is favoring a scientific explanation for the site.

"There were no crop circles and no flying saucers involved with it," he said.

ETHAN WILENSKY-LANFORD

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Received on Mon 17 Mar 2008 06:59:50 AM PDT