When I first started with all this, my intention was to see if I could figure out a better way to scope out new, undocumented craters, or likely places to go meteorite hunting. I didn’t do so well at first. But ironically, when I quit looking for new craters, and started focusing on identifying formations of airburst melt, I began to find too many new craters to count…
Literally too many to count. And a little bit of everything in between. Even if I had the funding, I could never visit them all. I need help. So over the next few weeks, I am going to post a few new craters a day, in the hope that someone might live close enough, or have interest enough, to go get a closer look. Each place will be presented as is. And with little, or no comments. I may not be able to go there, and do field work. But I can still point, and grunt. You be the judge.
Don’t surprised if you find others nearby any given crater. Few of them fell alone.
Each day when I change craters, I’ll archive previous craters. The archive can be viewed at Daily Craters.
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Nov 15, 2010
This one is a little different. It’s about 38 miles southeast of Moriarty, NM at 34.594661, -105.637092
This group is just outside Vaughn NM, at 34.648898, -105.148018
About 1 1/4 miles south of HWY 247 at 34.133406, -105.098351
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Nov 14, 201o
The best place to hide a tree is a forest. And the best place to hide a multiple fragment, crater field is in karst. A uniformitarian geologist who does not believe in catastrophic, multi-fragment, impact storms won’t even look twice.
But the 750 meter wide, two rimmed crater at 33.902876, -105.526987 was most certainly not produced by the collapse of a karst cavern.
And karst collapses don’t have raised rims either. Like the craters at 33.887450, -105.480889
Or those at 33.959417, -105.361296
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Nov 9, 2010
In the Odessa group at 31.617601, -102.271674
31.788219, -102.153964
31.712268, -102.168449
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Nov 8, 2010
This one is about 20 mile west, northwest of Roswell, New Mexico at, 33.499371, -104.853076
At 33.499061, -104.843313, about 900 meters to the east.
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Nov 7, 2010
This one’s in the Odessa group about 7 miles northeast of Rankin Texas, at 31.314249, -101.878828
Also in the Odessa group, 35 miles northeast of Midland, Texas at, 31.602771, -101.683570
And 38.5 miles south of Midland, Texas at, 31.436845, -102.117032
This multi-lobed crater is about five miles north of that one at, 31.523146, -102.019700
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Nov 6, 2010
Here’s another nice one in southern New Mexico at 32.398702, -104.621465
Near there at 32.394320, -104.629412
They’re part of a group of craters. This one’s at 32.387411, -104.664664
And here’s a wider view of the group.
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A Catastrophe of Comets 