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- From: gopher@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Meteor Impact Site In Northern Minnesota?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.163631.16584@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 16:36:31 GMT
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- In article <C0BF8H.KG0@news.iastate.edu> F1.DAO@isumvs.iastate.edu (David Oesper) writes:
- >I have a friend who has an uncle who lives in Minnesota. This uncle
- >spends lots of time in northern Minnesota. This particular person
- >is scientifically literate, and believes he may have found a meteor
- >impact site in northern Minnesota in a place that is probably very
- >seldom visited by anybody. The crater is 12' across, has water in
- >it, and lies in a heavily forested area. Unlike the surrounding
- >forest area, all of the trees near the depression look to be the
- >same age.
- >
- >My question is this: who should this Minnesotan contact that can
- >follow up on this report to see if it is really a meteor impact
- >site? Perhaps there is existing aerial photography of the area that
- >can be looked at before anyone goes there to investigate. I'm sorry
- >I do not have coordinates or more information, as this individual is
- >reluctant to give this information out to anyone who is not in a
- >position to investigate it properly. He has visited the site
- >several times over the past few years, and wants to avoid having
- >anyone ruin it before the scientists have had a chance to study it.
-
- Try the Dept. of Geology at the Univeristy of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- or at UM-Duluth (if they have one). You may also want to try the
- MN Dept. of Natural Resources. I don't know where you can get aerial
- photographs of this, tho. Maybe the Geography Dept. @ the UM-TC.
-
- BTW, where is this? I'm from northeastern MN.
-
-
- Chris
-
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- Chris Bovitz |
- Department of Meteorology | Weather weenie at large
- Univ of Wisc - Madison |
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