Hi, Kevin,
There are various transcriptions from the Arabic,
including Hadid and Um-Hadid. It os often listed as
one of the Wabar craters:
"Um-Hadid 0.01 km. Mentioned in CoM 1985:
"...found in region of the Wabar crater." Silica glass
and weathered fragments of iron meteorites (largest
1kg) found. Coordinates give in CoM: 21°30'N, 50°40'E
approximately.
See F. El-Baz and A. El Goresy, Meteoritics, vol.6, p.265, 1971."
ARN says:
Um-Hadid....................................21'41'42' N., 50'35'48' E.
Rub'al Khali, Saudi Arabia
Found
Stony-iron. Mesosiderite (MES).
Oxidized fragments up to 1kg in weight were found associated with
a crater 10 metres in diameter 15.4kg collected .
And so forth. It's not well-documented.
Try Googling Um-Hadid.
Sterling K. Webb
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Hello list,
Anyone have any more info on this crater complex.
There are only three mentions on google.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=79071&d=12&m=3&y=2006
(snip)
He told the audience that it offered numerous possibilities for future
research. He said that parts of Saudi Arabia had been much wetter in early
times and there was a thriving Savannah where now there was sand.
"The lakes and water tables that remain should be studied in order to
reconstruct the history of the climate and then project it forward to
enable us to understand how this area will develop in the future."
The expedition visited the Hadeeda Craters - site of a famous meteor
impact - in the southwestern Al-Rub Al-Khali. Professor Matter said that
samples of the meteorite were being sold on the Internet for considerable
sums to collectors.
Drawing on his experience with meteor fragments in Oman where he set up a
program to recover fragments from the desert, he said that the program had
recovered meteorite fragments from the moon and even one from Mars.
Collectors though, he said, had robbed the desert of its heritage simply
for money and not for scientific research.
The Al-Rub Al-Khali showed indications of considerable groundwater water
resources, said Professor Muhammad Sultan of Western Michigan University.
"We have to do our homework and to establish its whereabouts and how much
we can take out of it so that we can set up sustainable development of
this area. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we are on the right
track."
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