[meteorite-list] More on meteorite craters

Of the 4 I mentioned which have meteorites associated with them. Three are irons and one is a pallasite (Breham). I believe the original Haviland crater (Brenham) was filled in by the landowner and wasn't an explosive type crater. Now it is listed as an excavated depression. Many of the listed

Re: [meteorite-list] More on meteorite craters

Hi Chris and List, I read somewhere that some scientists think the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous chondrite. I don't recall what their evidence was to support this, but if it's true, such an impactor wouldn't have survived for very long - especially in a cataclysmic event because the

Re: [meteorite-list] More on meteorite craters

The larger and older a crater is, the less likelihood there are surviving meteorites found. Older is understood owing to weathering. Larger is owing that when such vast amount of kinetic energy gets converted to heat bonds will be sheered at the molecular and atomic level. So very little