[meteorite-list] Largest 'Fall' Meteorite

From: Kelly Beatty <jkellybeatty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:09:48 -0400
Message-ID: <EFDA0BE6466C4BD3929C7DB4438F0103_at_NightSkyGuy>

Jason et al...

> Only two meteorites are ever known to have created real craters upon
> falling; Carancas and Sikhote-Alin.

there's also Sterlitamak, a 1990 fall in Russia that left a 10-m crater:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992Metic..27R.276P


clear skies,
Kelly

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Received on Tue 27 Oct 2009 11:09:48 AM PDT