[BR-Crater] Fwd: Meteorite crater mystery/trip

[Robert Verish]

Another Forward from the Meteorite-List:

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[meteorite-list] Meteorite crater mystery/trip

ensoramanda ensoramanda at ntlworld.com
Wed Jan 9 21:39:15 EST 2008

    
Hi All,

Can anyone help to identify the structure I
photographed in the link at the end of this post?

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. I
have just managed to plough through the huge backlog
of posts from everyone after a 5 week trip to
Australia via Hongkong. I managed to visit many
meteorite
related sites on the journey...the Cranbourne strewn
field and display just south of Melbourne...passed by
Pinnaroo and Karoonda and through to Adelaide for a
look at their huge Mundrabilla and a great meteorite
display...then drove on up for a walk around the
Henbury Craters and
Alice Springs...another good display there at the
Museum in the Cultural centre...fantastic selection of
Henburys. The second part of the trip was on the West
coast and Perth....another amazing museum full of
space rocks there...with the other large Mundrabilla
alongside many others from the Nullabor. Futher north
we had a good day walking around the Pinacles..a very
surreal landscape and the site of another meteorite
find. All in all a memorable trip with loads of
photographs and 3000 miles of driving!. I will try and
upload some of the collections we
visited and post links if anybody is interested.

Anyway...back to the original request. On the Dec 1st
flight out to Oz we passed over northern China...a
wonderful view of the mountains and deserts from 35000
ft. Again I took far too many photographs out of the
plane window...but caught this shot of a very
interesting structure,
which looks incredibly like a huge impact crater or
astobleme to me. I have not been able to confirm what
it is and wondered if anyone else on the list had ever
seen it or could identify it? Been trying google earth
but no luck yet. The scale can be judged to some
extent by the small settlement nearer the foreground.

Here's the link...

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o43/LaburnumStudio/Craters/Crater-.jpg

Hope those of you heading for Tucson this time have as
good a time as I had last year. Sadly I cant make it.

Regards

Graham Ensor, Nr Barwell UK.