Circle Features Found Using Google Earth

Circle Features Found Using Google Earth

The coordinates for a number of new circular features
found by various people using Google Earth are given in:

In Re: Consolidated Impact Crater Database post #1415796 by "ekafeman " at:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number= 1415658

The two of the most interesting are:

1, Zhongcangxiang 2, China at 31°59'39.17"N 85° 9'13.94"E
This is about 18km WSW of Zhongcangxiang feature at
32° 2'40.34"N 85°20'1.97"E) It is about 0.03 km in diameter.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number= 572974

Zhongcangxiang 2, like Zhongcangxiang, is a "conspicuous 
simple round depression." It is in a very distinct circular
in what appears to an otherwise featureless alluvial surface
of some sort.

2. Rodillo Beach (?), Chile at 26°58'32.26"S 70°47'27.83"W
Although it is only about 0.02 in diameter. This feature is
much more ambiguous. However, it still interesting. Anyone

Unfortunately, it is impossible to tell what both of these 
features might be from aerial photography alone. It is in
a location where anyone taking in the sun at Rodillo Beach
might be able to visit it.

The other circular features seem much less promising. Still,
it is interesting to see what sort of features people are finding
using Google Earth.

Best wishes,

Paul H.

Identified Flying Objects - Wethersfield, Connecticut, Meteorite Fall

Identified flying objects byRon Robillard
04/22/2011, Identified flying objects
Wethersfield Post, April 22, 2011.
http://www.zwire.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1662&dept_id=11233&newsid=20460368

 

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20460368&BRD=1662&PAG=461&dept_id=11233&rfi=6

 

The article starts:

"It was 40 years ago this month that an alien visitor 
dropped in on Wethersfield." 

This article is about the meteorite that crashed into the 
house of Paul J. and Minnie Cassarino on Middletown 
Avenue, Wethersfield, Connecticut, early on the morning 
of April 8, 1971. It also mentions the November 1982 
fall, which hit a house on Church Street.

Yours,

Paul H.

Wetumpka (impact) Crater Run

Crater Run scheduled for Riverfest, The Weptumka
Herald, April 9, 2011.
http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/sports/outdoors/article_3b804da6-6225-11e0-8545-001cc4c03286.html

 

I wonder if the Wetumpka impact crater in Alabama is
only impact crater that has its only regularly scheduled
foot race associated with it? Also, would the Wetumpka 
Crater Run T-shirts be considered a meteorite-related 
collectible (memorabilia)?

Yours,

Paul H.

Geomorphology, including impact craters, of Martian volcanoes

Mist-capped volcanoes of Mars: The amazingly clear 
images that show how the Red Planet was transformed 
by meteor impacts, Daily Mail, April 7, 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1373984/Mist-capped-volcanoes-Mars-The-amazing-images-Red-Planet-transformed-meteor-impacts.html

 

Neighboring volcanoes on Mars, Physorg, April 4, 2011
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-neighboring-volcanoes-mars.html

 

Mars Express: Ceraunius und Uranius Tholi
http://www.astroarts.org/solscape/2011/04/06/mars-express-ceraunius-und-uranius-tholi/

 

Spectacular image at above web page at:
http://www.astroarts.org/solscape/files/2011/04/ceraunius_uranius_tholi_color.jpg

 

Digital Elevation Model of Ceraunius Tholus and Uranius 
Tholus, European Space Agency, 
http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&type=I&idf=SEMJ7L6UPLG&single=y&start=1

 

Yours,

Paul H.

"Death by GPS" in desert

"Death by GPS" in desert by Tom Knudson, The
Sacremento Bee, Jan. 30, 2011, http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html

 

Experts Warn of 'Death by GPS' as More People Visit 
Remote Wildernesses, FoxNews.com,February 04, 2011
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/04/death-gps-rise/?test=faces

 

Using GPS Navigation - http://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/directions.htm

 

yours,

Paul H.

Corossol Structure, Sept Iles Harbour, Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada

Higgins et al. (2011) reported a new suspected impact crater near
Sept Iles Harbour, Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada at 50°3’N, 66°23’W.
It is about 4 km in diameter and has “a central uplift that rises to 
about -70 m and an annular valley ~160 m deep.”  They report 
finding “planar deformation features,” “phosphatic/sulphide melts,” 
“suevite,” and other possible impact related materials. This is
certainly a promising structure.

Although the title of the abstracts indicates that it is Pleistocene 
in age, the age of this feature remains uncertain and could possibly 
be anytime between 13,000 BP and Ordovician in age. It is still 
possible that this is a pre-Pleistocene exhumed landform. The 
paucity of sediments within the structure is not necessarily an 
indication of its age. This could simply mean that the center of 
the structure has been scoured out as the result of differential 
erosion of the different strata composing it.

This fascinating structure definitely deserves further additional 
research and publication of additional full-fledged papers 
containing detailed information about its structure, age, origin, 
characteristics, and evidence for hypervelocity impact. 

References Cited,

Higgins M. D., P. Lajeunesse, G. St-Onge, J. Locat, M. 
Duchesne, J. Ortiz, and R. Sanfacon, 2011, Bathymetric and 
Petrological Evidence for a Young (Pleistocene?) 4-km 
Diameter Impact Crater in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, 
Canada. 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 
(2011), Abstract #1504.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1504.pdf

 

“The Corossol Crater is a complex crater ~4 km in diameter 
with a central uplift, a prominent moat, and multiple, 
low-relief ridges. The minimum age is ~13 ka. The impact 
origin is confirmed by a sample of suevite”

Best wishes,

Paul

Large asteroid 2005 YU55 Asteroid to Pass Near Earth in November 2011

 Huge Asteroid to Pass Near Earth in November

Huge Asteroid to Pass Near Earth in November
Leonard David, SPACE.com
http://www.space.com/11310-huge-asteroid-2005-yu55-passing-earth-november.html

 

Large asteroid 2005 YU55 paying close visit to 
Earth in November, Digital Journal
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/305500

 

The report is:
    
Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Approach Earth on November 8, 2011
by Don Yeomans, Lance Benner and Jon Giorgini
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news171.html

 

Other articles about near Earth asteroids.

Asteroid Follows Earth's Orbit, Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=asteroid-follows-earths-orbit-11-04-08

 

Asteroid stalks Earth for 250000 years, Cosmos
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4210/asteroid-follows-earth-250000-years

 

Yours,

Paul H.

Chicxulub Impact Crater focus for ocean drilling plans

Dino crater focus for ocean drilling plans by Richard Black 
BBC News, April 5, 2011 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12969599

 

 
http://news.maars.net/blog/2011/04/06/dino-crater-focus-for-ocean-drilling-plans/

 

Researchers To Drill Chicxulub Crater, RedOrbit 
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2024969/researchers_to_drill_chicxulub_crater/

 

Scientific Drilling of the Chicxulub Impact Crater - Various PDF Files 
http://canadaodp.earthsciences.dal.ca/new/drilling_proposal/morgan_09abs.pdf

 

 
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/EGU2011-9279.pdf

 

 
http://www.iodp.org/iodp_journals/11_Joint_IODP_ICDP_SD4.pdf

 

 

Yours, 

Paul H.

Dry Ice Gone Wild: Araneiform on Mars

Dry Ice Gone Wild: Araneiform on Mars, Dr. Candice 
Hansen, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ 85719
http://www.psi.edu/pgwg/images/Apr11Image.html

 

Past images and captions are available at:
http://www.psi.edu/pgwg/images/index.html

 

Yours,

Paul H.

New Paper About Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

A new paper about the Younger Dryas Impact 
hypothesis has been published online. It is

Pintera, N., A. C. Scott, T. L. Daultoc, A. Podolla, C.
Koeberl, R. S. Andersone, and S. E. Ishmana, 2011,
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem.
Earth-Science Reviews. Article in Press, Corrected
Proof. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.02.005
Abstract at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.02.005

 

PDF file at http://www.scribd.com/doc/49866466/The-Younger-Dryas-impact-hypothesis-A-requiem

A discussion of it is "Requiem for the Younger Dryas 
impact hypothesis?" March 1, 2011
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/03/requiem-for-the-younger-dryas-impact-hypothesis/

 

A related paper is:

Ellis, C. J., D. H. Carr and T. J. Loebel, 2011 The 
Younger Dryas and Late Pleistocene peoples of the Great 
Lakes region. Quaternary International. Article in Press, 
Corrected Proof doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.038

An earlier paper is:

Another paper is;

Fiedel, S. J., 2011, The mysterious onset of the Younger Dryas. 
Quaternary International. Article in Press, Corrected Proof 
doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.044 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.044

 

Yours,

Paul H.