On the one hand, there are rather stunning photos of a very cratered Mercury and on the other side of us a very pock-marked Mars. Both look like you couldn't even walk a hundred feet in any direction without stepping in another crater.
1 If they are so cratered from "meteorites" (was there an atmosphere?) that they are everywhere, Would not the earth look the same- excluding the drifting contental plates? I know there is a meteorite for every wide spot in the road in West Texas. (I'm trying to collect every one of them.) 2 It would seem to me that almost anywhere that you wanted to go, you could conceivably find a meteorite. 3 Is the movement of the plates what keeps the earth's landscape from looking like Mars or Mercury? 4 All the craters on earth are huge (the smallest that I know is Odessa at a mere 550 feet). Actually there are 5 craters, making it a rather complex system with the smallest at just over 22 feet, but it is a very young crater at ~50,000 years old about as old as is Canyon Diablo. This excludes Carancus as I'm not convinced it is a true crater. Is there any evidence of micro sized craters? Maybe something on the order of only 50 feet to maybe 100 feet across that is truly old? Pete ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
