yet another small shallow air burst crater in West Texas: Charles Porter: Rich Murray 2012.08.29
32° 15' 09.90" N 100° 48' 04.09" W 32.252750 -100.801136 Hello Chares Porter, Probably a typical shallow crater from atomic bomb energy level air burst of 35 km/sec ice fragment coming in at about 30 degrees angle from Taurid complex comet fragment swarm in 3.5 year solar orbit 13 Ka years ago -- Dennis Cox has hundreds of such images from Google Earth, mainly West Texas to New Mexico -- at a few of them in Vaughn, NM, I found in 2011 characteristic sharp broken fragments with surface glazes and melts -- many more around Santa Fe, NM. http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/more-new-mexico-craters/ within mutual service, Rich Murray 505-819-7388 cell Imperial Beach, CA 91932 .2 km wide, .672 km center elevation .675 km elevation at SR 208 .5 km to NE charles porter <cept...@earthlink.net> 11:47 PM (23 hours ago) 2012.08.28 Rich, I was using Google Earth and was browsing along SR 208 to the SE of Colorado City TX and happened to see a feature at: 32° 15' 09.90" N 100° 48' 04.09" W Do you have any idea as to what might have caused it? I do know that the outcropping beds are Triassic. Charlie Porter ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
