>Amman, Aug. 5 (Petra)--Professor Dr. Elias Salameh / University of Jordan has >announced the discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan near Jabal Waqf es >Swwan. The discovery was made by Professor Dr. Elias Salameh, Professor Dr. >Werner Schneider, and Professor Dr. Hani Khoury. >The diameter of the outer ring of the impact site measures around 5.5 km , >whereas that the inner ring is 2.7 km, and the diameter of the crater is more >than 100 m indicating an impactor diameter of about 100 m.
This seems to be the area mentioned in the article-- maybe someone can Google Earth up the crater (but resolution isn't the greatest in that area) http://www.earthsearch.net/intSearch/jabal-waqf-es-suwan-JO.php?showMap=-974884 ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
