Macha crater

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Coordinates: 60°6′N, 117°35′E 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).

[edit] 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.
• Discovery of the largest impact crater field on Earth in ...
• U. Wisc. Green Bay - Impact list

[edit] External links

• Earth Impact Database
• Cruzio crater list