[meteorite-list] Crater Meteorites?

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:05:27 -0400
Message-ID: <AANLkTikzi-wrF71SiZO5SGFVo7uQ85NdojgYAO4fLx_4_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Richard and List,

Generally-speaking, all impact craters have meteorites associated with
them, but the crater must be recent for the meteorites to be extant.
Of course I mean "recent" in terms of geological time. The most
ancient craters have no meteorites remaining. But we can collect the
associated impact breccias, tektites, impactites, etc. Any crater
that looks "fresh" is a great candidate to find meteorites, unless
it's been hunted out.

But to answer your question, I am not aware of list of collectible
meteorites and their associated craters. Maybe that would be a good
project for me, like the Recent Falls of the 21st Century page that I
did. :)

Best regards,

MikeG


On 7/23/10, Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> With Gebel Kamil widely covered in the news lately, it got me thinking a bit
> more about crater producing meteorites. My collection contains a number of
> crater produces and I'll be adding this one to it in the future.
>
> Besides Gebel Kamil, Canyon Diablo, Odessa, Campo, Sikhote, Carancas,
> Henbury all immediately come to mind as collectible meteorites that produced
> craters. I searched the Meteoritical Bulletin Database for the text keyword
> "crater" and got 208 returns as the result.
>
> While some of these are only named meteorites, the vast majority of the
> returns are coming from the Earth Impact Database. This majority is listed
> as "Impact Crater" as the type.
>
> I'm wondering if there is a list somewhere of meteorites that are associated
> with craters? That would make it easier to determine if a impact structure
> also has (collectible) meteorites associated with it.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Richard Kowalski
> Full Moon Photography
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>
>
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