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(meteorobs) Driving over a crater!
Hi guys -
Just got my latest copy of NEO News in the mail today. Neat stuff! I just
found out that I've <driven> over an impact crater!!!
The newsletter has an article on two east coast craters detected beneath the
Atlantic - one beneath the lower part of Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, and the
other beneath the outer edge of the continental shelf off New Jersey.
In the mid-1980's, I drove along the U.S. east coast on my way back up from
Savannah, and across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. I didn't know how <long>
this bridge was until I got to the toll booth - and I think they charged me $15
or so. It was <long>..... I have never been on a bridge and out of sight of all
land before! And then - the road disappeared into an underwater tunnel at the
main entrance to the Bay, in order to let ships pass through. I watched a U.S.
submarine go over the tunnel that I was about to drive through.... It was soooo
neat!!!
And now I find out that I drove over an impact crater.... it's centered almost
directly beneath the town of Cape Charles.... and is about 53 miles in diameter,
and about 1 mile deep. The article says it is the largest impact crater in the
United States, and the seventh largest in the world.
Wow!!
- Cathy
Great White North