[meteorite-list] Meteor Crater Impactor?

From: Yinan Wang <veomega_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:12:08 -0500
Message-ID: <AANLkTimSLKPRnE0gnd5KZkb2TGEeJG5OjH79QaEeawtH_at_mail.gmail.com>

The mhcmagazine picture is seen from an angle in google earth. When
you look at it directly overhead, it looks like this:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.02599,-111.022038&spn=0.021402,0.045276&t=h&z=15

Looks pretty round to me.

As for the little crater to the SSW, definitely man made, but not sure
for what use.

-Yinan

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:
> Hi Sterling, Thanks for the answer, and links.
>
> Still have a question though. I'm more curious about the angle of descent.
> The paper mentions an angle of 45 degrees.
>
> This seems like a very "safe" guess. Are there any data, or information on
> the angle of descent other than in the paper you provided a link to.
>
> See this crater photo from Google Earth:
> http://www.mhcmagazine.com/images/crater.jpg
>
> The crater is not perfectly round as would be expected from an impactor
> coming in at a sharper angle.In fact the crater is more elliptical in shape.
> It appears as if the impactor hit at an angle quite a bit shallower than 45
> degrees.
>
> Is it possible the impactor came in at a shallower angle?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
>
> On 9/10/2010 1:34 AM, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
>>
>> Eric, List,
>>
>> That is the conclusion of the 2005 paper in "Nature" by
>> Melosh and Collins. Their computer models suggest it
>> fragmented and came in as a swarm of pieces, much
>> slowed by the atmosphere.
>>
>> Here's two popular articles:
>>
>> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0310_050310_meteorcrater.html
>> and
>> http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=2965
>>
>> Here's original paper:
>> http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/~gsc/publications/articles/download/article7.pdf
>>
>> Well, one page from Nature, Vol. 434, 10 March, 2005.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sterling K. Webb
>>
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>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteor Crater Impactor?
>>
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> Can someone tell me the proposed/accepted angle of descent of the
>>> asteroid which formed Meteor Crater in AZ?
>>>
>>> Wikipedia has the impactor at 50 meters across, and velocity at 12.8
>>> km/s. Is this accurate?
>>>
>>> Eric
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