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RE: New Impact Crater?
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Ted Violet teaches physics and astronomy at Western State College. He agrees that the potential for a meteorite strike or comet to strafe the planet is very possible, but doesn't necessarily agree that Hartman Rocks is the result of that type of phenomena.
If that was the case, he adds, the evidence of a possible meteor strike would have likely cropped up before now because miners and geologists have throughly picked over the Hartman Rocks area.

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Suspected impact structure is 8.4 kilometres in diameter near the city of Gunnison, Colorado, US.

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Longitude 38°28'56.56"N Longitude 106°59'15.15"W


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A proposed impact crater.


The location and details have, as yet, not been disclosed.
Unfortunately, it looks like it is of volcanic origin.



-- Edited by Blobrana at 02:04, 2006-08-26

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