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Old 05-August-2005, 11:23 PM
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For reasons unknown, Northwest to Southeast seems to be the preferred path......I have no Idea why....

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The rotation of the earth and axial tilt would account for it, wouldn't they? At least in the northern hemisphere...
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I suppose you have a point on that, but some of the biggest ancient craters on Earth are aligned to (current) NW to SE.....Now I have no way to know, at the time, what the Earth really looked like, what Pangea turning into Gonwondaland, and all that drift going on, it would take some real heavy duty research to determine the number of craters, and the actual poles at the time, and I cannot even imagine how to do that....

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