[BR-Crater] new site

[Ian Kluft]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:54:18PM -0800, Moni Waiblinger wrote:
> Maybe you can find more info from it?

His web site says he has a mining claim for tektites at an impact site.
He doesn't seem to want to divulge much about it.  He doesn't want help.
So it doesn't look like a worthwhile use of time.  I know there's probably
more.  But I stopped reading at that point.  Sorry.

We know there have to be more unconfirmed impact sites.  The Earth has
been in the same firing line as the Moon.  Except that they get eroded,
buried, faulted and otherwise slowly erased here.  We don't have to bother
with sites that people try to make difficult.

We already have one suspected impact site (the Black Rock crater) and
two more that we're considering as possibilities (concentric circular
features at "Donut Basin" and the High Rock Canyon area), all on open
public lands in northwest Nevada.

> And have you been out at Black Rock desert or is it wet at this time?

No.  You guessed right - it's wet and impassable this time of year.
Last year we were surprised to find things dry (though sub-freezing) in
late January.  But every Winter is different.  No such luck this year.

And a year earlier in 2006, there was still a surface lake in June.
Here's an aerial photo:
   http://ian.kluft.com/blackrock/mudrock2006/img_6042.jpg

It'll turn out to be a good thing afterward.  The Winter re-forming of the
lake settles down a lot of the dust for a while and helps a bit toward
re-flattening the playa surface.  It needed both at the end of last year.