[meteorite-list] Dreamtime Meteor Impact Found Near Alice Springs, Australia

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:28:11 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <213546.62300.qm_at_web113603.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

It would have been nice if they had included coordinates or a link to a Google Earth file.

Since they did not, I found the location. For those of you using Google Earth, open this file using GE and it will take you to the candidate crater.

http://fullmoonphotography.net/images/Meteorites/proposed_dreamtime_crater.kmz

http://tinyurl.com/yjewx8x

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Richard Kowalski
http://fullmoonphotography.net
IMCA #1081
--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Paul Heinrich <oxytropidoceras at cox.net> wrote:
> From: Paul Heinrich <oxytropidoceras at cox.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Dreamtime Meteor Impact Found Near Alice Springs, Australia
> Dreamtime Meteor Impact Found with
> Google Earth
> Steve Nerlich, December 30th, 2009, Universe Today
> 
> http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/30/dreamtime-meteor-impact-found-with-google-earth-2/
> 
> "His suspicions were confirmed when he visited the
> site with a team of geophysicists and astrophysicists,
> who found evidence that a popular tourist location in
> the national park called Palm Valley contains the
> remains of an ancient impact crater.
> 
> "We found shocked quartz, which is only produced by
> a substantial impact and its presence in the rock samples
> and the morphology of the structure are the major
> indicators that Palm Valley is a crater,? Mr Hamacher
> said."
> 
> Google, Dreaming lead to ancient crater by Deborah
> Smith, Sydney Morning Herald, December 28, 2009
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/google-dreaming-lead-to-ancient-crater-20091227-lg9e.html
> 
> Google Earth confirms Dreamtime meteor legend by Annie
> Sanson, Northern Territory News, December 30, 2009
> 
> http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/google-earth-confirms-dreamtime-meteor-legend/story-e6frf7jx-1225814665715
> 
> Mystery solved by Dream by Annie Sanson, Northern
> Territory News, December 30, 2009
> 
> http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/12/30/112341_ntnews.html
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Paul H.
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Received on Wed 30 Dec 2009 06:28:11 PM PST