They find a crater on a volcano and quickly suggest that it was an impact crater?...
Come on! That's like finding basalt in a caldera and claiming its a martian meteorite. -YvW On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting. You are right that Google Earth is of little use and flashearth > is worse but I found some uploaded pictures to Google Earth and this one > shows what appears to either be a sink hole or a crater. But it doesn't look > like the same one as in your link: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/37270146 > > Abe Guenther > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert > Verish > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 12:13 PM > To: Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral > Subject: [Possible Spam][meteorite-list] Unrecorded Meteorite Crater Found On > Mount Ararat? > > No mention of whether any meteorites were found or even if there was an > attempt to search for any. -- Bob V. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > <http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26039/?ref=rss> > > Unrecorded Meteorite Crater Found On Mount Ararat? > > The discovery of an unrecorded crater raises the possibility that the > biblical mountain was struck by a meteorite, say physicists > > kfc 11/18/2010 > > * 2 Comments > > Mount Ararat is an ancient, isolated volcano in eastern Turkey near the > borders with Iran and Armenia. According to the Bible, the mountain is the > final resting place of Noah's Ark. Many an expedition has tried and failed to > find the Ark's remains. > > The northern and western slopes of the mountain are closed to public so how > two physicists gained access is anybody's guess. However, today Vahe > Gurzadyan from the Yerevan Physics Institute in Armenia and Sverre Aarseth > from the University of Cambridge in the UK, publish an account of a > remarkable discovery they made while walking in the region. > > At an altitude of 2100 metre, at coordinates 39 47' 30''N, 44 14' 40''E, they > found a well-preserved and previously unrecorded crater some 70 metres > across. (Google Earth is of little use. The resolution of the imagery at this > location is poor.) That's a decent size for a crater that has gone unnoticed > for so long (although new craters of this kind of size do turn up from time > to time.) > > The question of course is how this crater was formed. One possibility is that > the crater is volcanic. But Gurzadyan and Aarseth raise another: that it is > the result of a meteorite impact. They rule out a glacial origin on the > grounds that 2100 metres is well below the glacier line. > > Gurzadyan and Aarseth publish their account with the intention of attracting > interest so that the crater can be properly classified. > > New craters are important because they help determine how heavily the Earth > has been bombarded in the past. And while small craters are far more numerous > than big ones on other bodies in the Solar System, the opposite is true on > Earth because small ones tend to be eroded away more quickly. > > Interestingly, the crater wasn't their only discovery during their trip. > Because the region is closed, it is virtually unexplored. Gurzadyan and > Aarseth say they also stumbled across the remains of a 5th or 6th century > Armenian basilica that is unknown to experts. > > Sounds like an adventure in the making for anybody with the time and > inclination to go. (And with the necessary permits, of course.) > > Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1011.3715: A Meteorite Crater On Mt. Ararat? > ______________________________________________ > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________ 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
