Hi folks,
I think I mucked up the discovery of Wolfe Creek meteorite crater by aerial
survey with Henbury, although an aerial survey of the craters was conducted
in 1937 and I seem to remember seeing the photos. Anyway, I found some
interesting data..
"Chindu chinna waru chingi yaku" which means "Sun walk fire devil rock"
Department of Mines and Energy: Alice Springs: 58 Hartley Street, Tel: 08
8951 5658
Ask to see if Jacinta McKinley still works there?
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Regards Gosses Bluff, from the travel log of
http://www.infohub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7412&postcount=3
Aboriginal mythology has stories about the crater being created by something
that came from the sky. Magic indeed,
though the earth had not yet been trod by humans when this was created, and
all that anyone has ever seen is the last
small remnants of something much larger
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http://www.marssociety.org.au/jnt-db/Australia-NT_S-Henbury.html
Date typo
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http://www.marssociety.org.au/library/MSA-TEC-JNT-PM-02-02-JNT1_proposal-U-ver0B.pdf
Same date typo
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http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/
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From Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, this website, a reference to a
historical document.
http://www.stsn.it/
a historical document that mentions,
Alderman AR, 1932. The meteorite craters at Henbury,. Central Australia.
Mineralogical Magazine, XXIII,. 136, 19-32,
London
http://www.stsn.it/serAvolCIX.htm
http://www.stsn.it/serA109/05D'Orazio3B.pdf
Some excerpts,
HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS ON METEORITES (1867-1934)
IN THE «MISCELLANEA DACHIARDI» (DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE
DELLA TERRA, UNIVERSITY OF PISA, ITALY)
Matteo might like to surf it for any other historical meteorite documents.
It's an Italian site and 'Me non comprendi
much Italiano'.
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From this page, the bit that I couldn't remember, the aboriginal words.
http://www.somerikko.net/old/geo/imp/refer.htm
HENBURY, Australia Synonym: Double Punchbowl
Age of 0.001 Myr has been offered.
Meteorite: Henbury (iron IIA, med. oct.) found 1931
Among the aporiginals there is legend of fiery explosion. Aporiginal name
for the place is "Chindu chinna waru chingi
yaku" which means "Sun walk fire devil rock". So, it seems that this was an
observed fall!
Craters of Henbury
crater Økm
1 0.023 Does not exist?
2 0.027 Does not exist?
3 0.065
4 0.070
4a 0.020
5 0.018
6 The Water Crater 0.073
7 Main Crater 0.180x0.140 Two craters?
8 0.075
9 ? Disappeared?
10 0.018
11 0.015
12 0.030
13 0.006
Hodge 1994 and CoM 1985
A.R. Alderman, Min. Mag., vol.23, p.19, 1932
A.R. Alderman, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol.4, p.561, 1932
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http://meteoritemag.uark.edu/611.htm
Though his goal was to find a vast body of valuable ore, Barringer never
did. Even by the time of the 1909 paper (his
second of four major papers on the crater) he was well aware of the
arguments for vaporization of the body on impact.
Perhaps it was the intense desire to find the meteorite that clouded his
judgment, but it was to be a misconception
he never gave up. It would also be something other researchers elsewhere
would bring to their investigations as well.
At the Henbury craters, the last two of three suggestions made by A.R.
Alderman of the University of Adelaide for
continued work at Henbury related to locating, then drilling and prospecting
the masses when found.
Alderman wrote:
(2) That use be made of geophysical methods in an attempt to locate the
position of masses of meteoric iron in any of
the craters. The locality, the type of country-rock, and the nature of the
material to be located, seem most ideally
suited to the use of such methods.
(3) That if the position of a mass of iron be located by geophysical means,
boring operations could then be proceeded
with advantageously. Boring or drilling would certainly be of great value in
prospecting the main craters. In some of
the smaller ones it is possible that the meteoric material might be revealed
by actual digging.
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Australian Meteor Craters
http://abc.net.au/science/k2/trek/4wd/Over11.htm
Copyright © Karl S. Kruszelnicki
Henbury Craters (NT, 24º 34'S, 133º 10'E) are a collection of 14 craters,
about 130 kilometres south of Alice
Springs. They are scattered over an area of about one square kilometre. The
craters range from 10 metres to about 73
metres across. The Aboriginal name for these craters is ''chindu chinna waru
chingi yabu'' which roughly means ''sun
walk fire devil rock''. They are quite young, about 15,000 years old.
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http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/australia/northern_territory/kingscanyon.asp
Not far along this road theres another turn-off, to Henbury Meteorite
Craters. The extra-terrestrial shower that
caused these twelve depressions, 2180m in diameter, may have occurred in
the last twenty thousand years, given that
the Anangu have several names for the place, one of which translates as sun
walk fire devil rock.
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http://www.meteorman.org/info_2.htm
... field has been completely stripped of its fragments. It fell about 5000
years ago. It was in an area the native
people call Sun Walk Fire Devil Rock
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http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com/catalog/henbury.htm
Discovered in 1931, the Henbury iron meteorites are found scattered among a
group of 13 craters in the Northern
Territory of Australia. The meteorites fell an estimated 10,000 years ago,
exploding during descent, an event
witnessed by the local Aborigines who term the area as "Sun walk fire devil
rock". This, passed down through the
generations and endorsed by a man who was the former meteorite curator in a
Queensland, Australia museum, makes this
the oldest witnessed fall... "It just can't be confirmed, there's no
documented evidence". Classified as a nickel-
iron medium octahedrite, the internal Widmanstatten pattern is coarse and in
small specimens the sudden heating and
twisting forces generated at the moment of impact altered their structure,
erasing the pattern.
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http://www.nyrockman.com/catalog-3.htm
HENBURY
Iron. Medium octahedrite (IIIAB)
Northern Territory, Australia
Found 1931
Approx. recovered weight 1,000 kg
Thirteen craters located near Henbury Cattle Station, in arid Central
Australia, were examined and meteorites
recovered by the British Museum and the South Australian Museum. Crater Nos.
3, 4, 6, 7a, 7b, and 8 are true
explosion craters, while the others are only impact holes. Over 1,200 kg of
meteoritic iron ranging from large,
fusion-crusted, regmaglypted individuals, to heavily deformed explosion
fragments, to completely weathered shale
balls, to metallic spherules, has been recovered, the largest mass weighing
181 kg. The area is now closed to
collectors. This fall occurred over 5000 years ago, and the aboriginal
tribes have named the location "Sun walk fire
devil rock."
Individual 52.2 g $78
Individual 78.0 g $117
Individual 95.7 g $144
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http://64.233.179.104/search?
q=cache:49jfAO1cClwJ:www.tmag.tas.gov.au/AboutUs/downloads/AnnualRpt.pdf+Alderman+Henbury+report&hl=en&gl=au&ct=clnk&
cd=6
Henbury meteorite, an iron octahedrite, weighing 12.69 kg. Donated under the
Tax Incentive for theArts Scheme, by Mr
David Kemp, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.This relatively large piece of
Henbury was collected by the donor, from
the crater site. The HenburyCraters are the site of a meteoritic fall which
occurred 4200 years ago. They are the
only knowncluster of meteoritic craters in the Southern Hemisphere. The
donated specimen is a fine example,showing
regmaglypts and other features. Regmaglypts are the pits on the ablatory
surface of ironmeteorites formed by the
vortices swirling the molten metal around as it reaches very high
temper-atures caused by the frictional heat of
entry of the meteor into the earth's atmosphere.
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Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor
and meteorite articles.
Paper: Daily Gleaner
City: Kingston, Surrey, Jamaica
Date: Thursday, July 16, 1931
Page: 19
Discover 13 Craters Made by a meteorite.
Geologists Ask Australian Premier to Protect Site For Further Investigations
ADELAIDE, Australia, July 10 - The Commonwealth Prime Minister has been
asked to set aside as a reservation the site along the Fink River, in
Central Australia, where thirteen large craters, caused thousands of years
ago by a huge meteorite, have been discovered. The site is in Federal
territory and the Prime Minister is being urged to take action to prevent
its being despoiled by visitors.
Scientists are interested in the discovery, on which a report was
presented to a meeting of the Royal Society last might, and a party of
university scientists soon will make further investigations. Three of the
craters are larger then the biggest caused by the Siberian meteorite
twenty-three years ago, and the largest is second in size only to the Canyon
Diablo in Arizona.
The craters range from 220 to ten yards wide, and more than 800
meteorite fragments are scattered over the surrounding country. They weigh
from a few ounces to fifty pounds and consist mainly of metallic iron and
nickel.
The discovery followed reports received by Professor Grant, who with
Sir Douglas Mawson arranged a fortnight's investigation by two geologists,
Messrs. Alderman and Winzor. They state that the crater, in which trees are
growing, are greatly reduced in size and depth as a result of erosion, but
that the largest is fifty feet deep. The impact of the meteorite was so
great that it generated melted rocks in the vicinity.
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Impactite from Henbury, Australia
YANG DING* AND DAVID R. VEBLEN
http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/Articles_Free/2004/Ding_p961-968_04.pdf
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NEWLY DISCOVERED METEOR CRATER METALLIC IMPACT SPHERULES: REPORT AND
IMPLICATIONS.
http://ilewg.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/pdf/1907.pdf
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A metallic asteroid may have coincided with the fall of Rome
http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2003/02/0159.php
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Meteorites Hit Jet And Farm Pasture In Sri Lanka
http://prophecycorner.com/agee/procon1005.html
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Meteorites Hit Jet And Farm Pasture In Sri Lanka
http://www.rense.com/general35/meteoriteshitjet.htm
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An article by Dr A. Bevan
Nov04 Friends NL.pmd
http://www.earthmuseum.segs.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/48907/NOV04N.pdf
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Zoomable satellite map of Earth's major impact structures
http://geology.com/meteor-impact-craters.shtml
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http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001789p.htm
The Henbury meteorite craters and geophysical prospecting. Australian
Journal of Science, 1 (1938), 93-94.
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A NICKEL PICKLE
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/nicc.html
In 1930 an aerial survey covering around five hundred square miles of South
Carolina coastal plain was undertaken.
This mosaic of photographs revealed some quite unusual features--the area
looked as if some outraged giant had
blasted it with a colossal shotgun. Newly discovered impact craters were big
news in the early thirties: some large
structures had been discovered in Australia (Henbury Craters), and British
explorer James Philby was, in 1932, led to
find some impressive and actually fairly recent craters in the Arabian
desert (Wabar Craters), by a guide who sang:
From Qariya strikes the sun upon the town;
Blame not the guide that vainly seeks it now,
Since the Destroying Power laid it low,
Sparing nor cotton smock nor silken gown.
That same year geologist Frank A Melton and physicist William Schriever,
both of the University of Oklahoma, had
finished a lengthy study of the unusual features revealed by the flying
camera two years earlier. They reported their
findings at a 1932 meeting of the Geological Society of America, and these
were published the following year in the
Journal of Geology, under the title "The Carolina Bays--Are They Meteorite
Scars?" Later that year (1933), Edna
Muldrow captured the attention of Harper's Monthly readers with this opening
paragraph:
What would happen if a comet should strike the earth? We do not like to
dwell o that possibility, it is true; yet
such evasion arises mainly because we are human and it is human to shun the
unpleasant. So we bolster our sense of
security by the assumption that what has not happened will not happen. This
assumption is false. The truth is that
the earth in the past has collided with heavenly bodies, and the more
serious truth is that it may collide again.
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Geophysical Report on the Henbury Meteorite Craters, Central Australia. J.M.
Rayner 1939
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/hal/maps/specials/nthn-aust-geol-reports-nt.html
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I am under the impression that some aboriginal legends or oral histories
about some of these astroblemes are evolving
to incorporate known fact, or modern scientific knowledge. Kevin, VK3UKF.
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