Macha crater

Macha is a meteorite crater in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. The crater, measuring 300 meters in diameter, is the largest of a field of 5 craters with diameters ranging from 60 to 300 m. They may have been the result of iron meteorites, with an estimated age of impact less than 8000 years ago (Holocene).

References

* Gurov, E. P.; Gurova, E. P.; Novalyukh, N. N.; Gruppa meteoritnykh kraterov macha v zapadnoy Yakutii (Meteorite craters in Macha and western Yakutia), Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, v. 296n. 1, p. 185-188, 1987.
* E.P. Gurov, E.P. Gurova, "The group of Macha craters in western Yakutia", Planet. Space Sci. 46 (1998) 323.
* [http://www.impactika.com/PaillouCRAS04.pdf Discovery of the largest impact crater field on Earth in ...]
* [http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/planets/impact3.htm U. Wisc. Green Bay - Impact list]

External links

* [http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/ Earth Impact Database]
* [http://www2.cruzio.com/~aapollos/Crater.html Cruzio crater list]