[meteorite-list] Meteorite crater found on mount Ararat?

From: Michael Groetz <mpg4444_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:35:30 -0800
Message-ID: <AANLkTin_eOiPbP4uUeGADdSpZMczTg9dq84pP1LPWzHH_at_mail.gmail.com>

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/223395-Meteorite-crater-found-on-mount-Ararat-

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:31 CST

Astrophysicists Vahe Gurzadyan from the Yerevan Physics Institute in
Armenia and Sverre Aarseth from the University of Cambridge in the UK,
discovered an unrecorded crater that raises the possibility that the
biblical mountain Ararat was struck by a meteorite.

A British scientific publication OBSERVATORY will soon publish an
article about the discovery. However, after appearing on the
University Cornell website it had already spread around the world.

Mount Ararat is an ancient, isolated volcano in eastern Turkey near
the borders with Armenia.

The northern and western slopes of the mountain are closed to public
but somehow the two physicists gained access.

At an altitude of 2100 metres, at coordinates 39? 47' 30''N, 44? 14'
40''E, they found a well-preserved and previously unrecorded crater
some 70 metres across. Gurzadyan and Aarseth think that it is the
result of a meteorite impact. They rule out a glacial origin on the
grounds that 2100 metres is well below the glacier line.

Gurzadyan and Aarseth publish their account with the intention of
attracting interest so that the crater can be properly classified.
Received on Sun 13 Feb 2011 08:35:30 AM PST