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mstachiwDec 31, 2009
so the indigenous people dreamed a legend of this falling from the sky but its millions of years old? (of course they could have visited the site and surmised that something impacted). I really couldn't follow what the writer was trying to convey about the legend or its origin. Then something about a horror movie? Its like a good article trapped in elusive statements.
nepidaeJan 1, 2010
Are you trying to say that Aborigines are not aboriginal?
sizzzzlerzJan 1, 2010
Found it! Google Earth, FTW24 03' 05'' S, 132 42' 34'' E
weirdo50Jan 1, 2010
This article is about a crater found in AUSTRALIA.
mysterymeatmanJan 1, 2010
You fail at Occam's razor.Australia is a big, flat and tectonically lifeless place. If some tribe saw something fall to earth to their north then you can probably find something that will corroborate that story, whether or not causality or correlation exists. In this case OC suggests to me that the researcher wanted free publicity and made a press release. Otherwise something like this would never have made it to the papers.
duanehamacherJan 2, 2010
The story talked about a star that fell to Palm Valley and I found the crater using that story and location it gave. Although the story and the crater may not be related (coincidental), the Arrernte story of Tnorala (Gosse's Bluff) is that it was formed by a cosmic impact, suggesting that the Arrernte *may* have known the crater was formed in a similar way. Nothing supernatural, nothing unscientific. Just a different approach.Be careful what you read in the media... they usually get it VERY wrong, no matter how many times the researcher tells them!-Duane Hamacher
duanehamacherJan 2, 2010
No, the media got it wrong. The university made the press release, but placed more emphasis on the method of discovery than the discovery, which I find rather frustrating.Free publicity? Yes, but not in the way it has turned out.-Duane Hamacher
duanehamacherJan 2, 2010
"Bowl shaped depression does not seem to be unusual or obvious enough (it's covered by vegetation) to infer an impact observed from the ground..."Wrong. Have you been to the site? I have. It is very obviously bowl shaped and crater-like. One thing that struck me when we surveyed the site me was how similar it looked the the larger Henbury craters (which would have been seen by Aboriginal people... age = 4,200 years). Plus, I found archaeological artifacts (stone tools) on the rim of the crater. The whole area is considered sacred to the Arrernte."...and the aboriginals had no concept of meteorites."Wrong. They certainly did. What research did you do to come up with this claim?"Either it's an incredible coincidence, the dating is wrong, or there is some other factor involved."It could very well be a coincidence (I've repeated this ad nauseum). Our estimates of the crater age are based on the levels of erosion. As for the other factor, see my post at the bottom of this thread.-Duane Hamacher
peterb1981Feb 21, 2011
when google earth released I thought its going to uncover every single thing in the world... hopefully gov are there to restrict them :D