Matscha crater
Coordinates: 60 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ N , 117 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E
Matscha ( Russian Мача ) refers to a group of impact craters in the Sakha Republic in southern central Siberia .
With a diameter of 300 meters, the crater is the largest in a field of five craters with diameters between 60 and 300 meters.
The two largest craters form the pear-shaped Abram Lake, three smaller craters are further to the north. All the craters are well preserved.
The craters may have been caused by the fall of iron meteorites . Their age is estimated to be around 7,000 years.
See also
Web links
- EarthImpactDatabase
- Cruzio crater list
- EP Gurov, EP Gurova and NN Novalyukh: Gruppa meteoritnykh kraterov macha v zapadnoy Yakutii . In: Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR . 296, No. 1, 1987, pp. 185-188. bibcode : 1987DoSSR.296..185G .
- EP Gurov, EP Gurova, The group of Macha craters in western Yakutia , Planet. Space Sci. 46 (1998) 323.
- Discovery of the largest impact crater field on Earth in ... (PDF; 1.0 MB)
- U. Wisc. Green Bay - Impact list
Individual evidence
- ↑ Macha crater field . Wondermondo. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
- ↑ Macha . In: Earth Impact Database . Archived from the original on September 13, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
