Eric wondered: "Can someone tell me the proposed/accepted angle of descent of the asteroid which formed Meteor Crater in AZ?"
The trajectory of the impacting body was interpreted by Shoemaker as traveling north-northwest at a relatively low impact angle. and furthermore: "Wikipedia has the impactor at 50 meters across, and velocity at 12.8 km/s. Is this accurate?" The authors write themeteorite had a velocity in the range of about 13 to 20 km/s, probably in the lower part of this range and estimated the coherent meteorite diameter to have been 45-50 m with a mass of 300,000 - 400,000 tons! Reference: D.J. Roddy, E.M. Shoemaker (1995) Meteor Crater: Summary of impact conditions (Meteoritics 30-5, 1995, p. 567). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best wishes, Bernd ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
