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SC - I thought I would put this on your radar for a possible Catastrophism ping if it proves a meteor strike.
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05/18/2011 10:16:21 AM PDT by
gleeaikin
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Thanks gleeaikin.
Officials and experts are also scratching their heads. For now, it appears the small crater that splayed debris across a 100-foot area wasn't caused by a meteorite... "It's just really, really weird," said Jerry Vinski, director of nearby Raritan Valley Community College's planetarium... "We dug around and couldn't find anything. We used metal detectors because all meteors have metal in them, and we couldn't find anything, large or small."
Wow. I guess anyone can get a job as planetarium director.
Arizona's Meteor Crater -- which is arguably the best-known impact crater on Earth -- is 3/4 of a mile across, and finding any ET metals in it is a difficult job. I'm not sure any has ever been found. And that rock was an estimated 100 yards in diameter. However, the impact produced shocked quartz (coesite). Similarly, the reason the Soviets funded an expedition to the mysterious Tunguska site was that the guy who ran the expedition convinced everyone that the nickel, iron, and other metals to be found in the impact crater would more than offset the costs. He found bupkis.
63 posted on
05/19/2011 5:00:16 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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