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Old 26-September-2007, 12:23 AM
JonClarke JonClarke is offline
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It would be good to get more decent photos for sure. from experience it is actually quite hard to get decent photos of small craters, It's possible that some these are cropped telephoto images, that might explain some the apparently forced perspectives.

Some good measurements would be desirable too. The crater has been variously quoted as 30 m across and 6 m deep and 17 m across and 5 metres deep. Both are reasonable in siuze and proportion for a small impact. the crater has a rim (best seen the in video, and both the rim and the crater are composed of brecciated material. This is what you would expect from an impact.

Another thing worth mentioning is the shallow groundwater, the water table is only 3-4 m below the surface, judging by the photos. With the a capillary fringe another 50 cm above that it means that much of the crater has been excavated out of wet, or at least moist material. There have have already been some modification of crater form through slumping.

The video shows shome white coatings on the ejecta. This is consistent in colour and distribution with impact glass. It would be nice if this could be confirmed. (or disproved)

Jon
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