[muawiyah]

Yup, we got one of them too ~ right down to the concentric rings ~ the center of the impact is over there on the Delmarva peninsula. You can make out the circular shape by checking out the "FAll LINE" in NJ, PA, MD, VA and NC.

Makes for really interesting subsurface structures too!

[sonsofliberty2000]

Any pictures of that?

[NormsRevenge]

Here's some info on the Chesapeake crater

http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/chesapeake.htm

[binkdeville]

Can you tell em more about that ? Never heard of it .

[GOPJ]

Makes for really interesting subsurface structures too!

What are the subsurface structures like?

[gleeaikin]

"Check the Fall Line, large enough to kill all life."

Actually, neither of these statements is accurate. The book "Chesapeake Invader" by C. Wylie Poag, 1999 gives all the details. The 50 mi. diameter crater lies wholely in Virginia. The south end is Norfolk, and the north end is at Exmore, on the Va. end of the Delmarva Peninsula. I have driven down there trying to find it, but haven't yet. The western side is along the west side of the Chesapeake Bay and the jogs in the York and James Rivers indicate its edge.

Nineteen miles diameter is hardly large enough to wipe out all life, although it would certainly mess up your year. The Chesapeake Meteor (50 mi. diameter), a 9md crater off Tom's River, NJ, and another 50md crater in Siberia named Popigai all crashed around 35 million years ago. Although there seem to have been other major impact events, and this is around the end of the Eocene and beginning of the Oligocene, scientist have found no evidence of a major world wide die off tied to these meteors. The dinasaur meteor off Yucatan was about 120 miles in diameter. Scientists are now looking at the Shiva Crater off India which is also about 65 million years old. This crater is 400 x 600 kilometers, and combined with the Yucatan meteor was probably responsible for a 65 to 70% die off.

For more info. Google Meteorite Impact Craters on Earth.