Crater impostor unmasked as sheep-dip "The supposed meteorite that supposedly caused the supposed “Sirente crater” in the Abruzzi mountains did not bring down the Roman Empire after all. Ted Nield reports. Geoscientist Online 19 March 2009"
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/geoscientist/geonews/page5368.html The references given in this article are: Bondre, N 2009: Crater or not? Nature Geoscience vol. 2 March 2009 p. 166 Ormö J et al., 2002: The Sirente Crater Field, Italy. Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 37 1507-1521 http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2002M%26PS...37.1507O Speranza, F et al., 2004: An anthropogenic origin of the “Sirente Crater”, Abruzzi, Italy. Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 39, 4, 635-649 http://www.earth-prints.org/handle/2122/3941 Speranza, F et al., 2009: The “Sirente crater field”, Italy, revisited. Journal of Geophysical Research. vol. 114, B03103, doi:10.1029/2008JB005759. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JB005759.shtml Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list