[meteorite-list] Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

2006-08-07 Thread Darren Garrison
Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan /9/ 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

Re: [meteorite-list] Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

2006-08-07 Thread Darren Garrison
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

2006-08-07 Thread Stefan Brandes
Maybe it´s this formation at: 31°02'56,7''N, 36°48'23,4''E (Google Earth) Just a guess Stefan 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

Re: [meteorite-list] Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

2006-08-07 Thread drtanuki
Stefan and List, Thank you Stefan! That is virtually what I have. The Google coordinates I have been studying for almost three months are 31.025349N,36.482491E measured at the centre of the crater. The diameter that I get using the google measure is 5.8Km for the outer ring. The central

Re: [meteorite-list] Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

2006-08-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:38:15 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: I attempted to forward the google earth link to the list but it appears that it has bounced due to the attachment. Here's Dirk's Google Earth link: http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/GoogleEarth_Placemark.kmz

Re: [meteorite-list] Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

2006-08-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:38:15 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: using the google measure is 5.8Km for the outer ring. Hm. The Google Earth measure tool can give mesurements in Smoots. A bit of Googling turned up this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot __

Re: [meteorite-list] Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

2006-08-07 Thread drtanuki
Thanks Darren and Stefan! Two postings that I made did not make it to the list concerning this feature; sorry if they should suddenly appear after this post. I have a hunch that there is another one nearby. BTW...The feature is 70+/-Km from the town listed in the original article. So for