(meteorobs) More on the Norwegian meteorite

[Marco Langbroek]

Armando, I don't think this is the impact site at all. To me (as to a number of 
others who have commented here on meteorobs and on the met-central list), it 
looks like a landslide, not like an explosion crater or impact pit.

- Marco

Armando Afonso wrote:
> That has the look of a percussion mark, to me.
> The shape is elipsoidal, the internal part is fractured, the envolving rock
> seams, by contrast, healty.
> It would be a strange rockslide.
> Even if the scale of the scar is dificult to evaluate from the photo, a 
> mass
> of an average car falling at the final speed of a meteorite, would not let
> more evidence on a granite surface than this, I think.
> Big craters form when cosmic speed is maintained, with asteroid sized
> bodies, but why are we expecting such a big thing?
> AA
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>> Aftenposten are now reporting that the impact site has been found...
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>> http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1348689.ece
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