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

From: ensoramanda at ntlworld.com <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 0:40:59 +0000
Message-ID: <20091231004059.16YJ6.674213.root_at_web01-winn.ispmail.private.ntl.com>

Hi Paul,

Thanks for that info.

A few years back I spent the night just yards from it in a swag on the banks of Palm Valley...would you believe it? On route from touring round Gosse Bluff.

No more news appeared about the Wisbech daytime fireball on the 19th by the way...but chasing it up.

Graham, UK

---- Paul Heinrich <oxytropidoceras at cox.net> wrote:
> 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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