Without reading about the geology for the area yet, I'd bet it's a volcanic origin - I see another similar feature at 43:17'15.93" N 71:11'03.00"W
Cheers, Pete > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:59:50 -0400 > Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible Ancient Impact Crater USA > > > Hi, All, > > This news item was released a few days ago, and was discussed somewhat on > another List I subscribe to. > Any thoughts? > > The coordinates are: > 43:06'42.49" N > 71:11'24.44" W > > A Google Earth search for Nottingham, New Hampshire, will land you just east > of the site. > At twelve km. altitude it just comes into view on the left. > > When tilted, the structure is quite evident - I just wonder how it was > overlooked for so long! > > Cheers, > Pete > > > > http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS01/803140369 > http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS01/803140369 > > A Pembroke man was playing with Google Earth - an online digital map of the > planet - when he came across something that seemed out of this world: an > apparent meteorite crater in Pawtuckaway State Park in Nottingham. > > "I was just searching around on Google, looking at lakes, because I'm a > sailor," said Stephen Dupuis, 52. "As I was panning down through the > landscape, it kind of caught my eye." > > Dupuis, a multimedia artist, has been fascinated with astronomy and outer > space since his father, a former engineer, built the heat shields used for > the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s. > > What he saw in Nottingham stirred his interest. He researched impact craters > online and wrote to the Earth Impact Database, which is run out of the > University of New Brunswick. Nobody has responded yet. > > "They didn't show anything in New Hampshire," he said of the database's maps. > "Maybe somebody now will look at this and say, 'Hey that is a crater.' " > > So far, Dupuis is favoring a scientific explanation for the site. > > "There were no crop circles and no flying saucers involved with it," he said. > > ETHAN WILENSKY-LANFORD > > _________________________________________________________________ > Create a handy button so your friends can add U to their buddy list. Try it > now! > http://g.msn.ca/ca55/211 > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _________________________________________________________________ Create a handy button so your friends can add U to their buddy list. Try it now! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/211 ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
