1864: fiction or fact? help! - Crater Estimator
Paul H bristolia at yahoo.comTue Sep 21 15:00:31 EDT 2004
Chris aubeck wrote:
>As I wish to present this story as a stage in the
>development of meteorite-related myths and
>misidentifications through history, as part of a
>report with wholly educational aims, it would be
>interesting to know whether a scientist working in
the
>mid-19th century would have spotted this fake
>immediately, and how.
>
>Also, how big would the crater of such a large
>meteorite be? Is there a way to estimate it?
Go look at "Earth Impact Effects Program" by
Robert Marcus, H. Jay Melosh, and Gareth Collins at:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
Yours,
Paul
Baton Rouge, LA
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