Pothead discovers worlds largest impact crater

[bigfatpothead]

I have sent this information to the USGS and they forwarded it to their
Astrogeology dept.

I was browsing google earth and found that a very large object hit the US and scraped along the surface before
Exploding in alabama and showering the midwest with huge rocks that left craters all over texas and arkansas.
Most of these craters have taken the form of small ponds.

The impact point is a hundred miles or so south east of huntsville Al.
And there is a huge impact crater that goes through 3 states.
The thing was so huge that it carved out the Appalachian mountains.
You can zoom in on them and see the serated edges of the object
Where it rolled and scraped the land.
Here are some images I put on my site

http://www.bigfatpothead.com/earth/1.jpg
http://www.bigfatpothead.com/earth/2.jpg
http://www.bigfatpothead.com/earth/3.jpg
http://www.bigfatpothead.com/earth/4.jpg

Thanks
Ronnie Smith

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by bigfatpothead

I have sent this information to the USGS and they forwarded it to their
Astrogeology dept.

I was browsing google earth and found that a very large object hit the US and scraped along the surface before
Exploding in alabama and showering the midwest with huge rocks that left craters all over texas and arkansas.
Most of these craters have taken the form of small ponds.

The impact point is a hundred miles or so south east of huntsville Al.
And there is a huge impact crater that goes through 3 states.
The thing was so huge that it carved out the Appalachian mountains.
You can zoom in on them and see the serated edges of the object
Where it rolled and scraped the land.
Here are some images I put on my site

http://www.bigfatpothead.com/earth/1.jpg
http://www.bigfatpothead.com/earth/2.jpg
http://www.bigfatpothead.com/earth/3.jpg
http://www.bigfatpothead.com/earth/4.jpg

Thanks
Ronnie Smith

Way cool BFPH, Look's like a big crater has the USGS said anything about this? Is it photoshopped? Really a wild picture but I'm not sure it is a real artifact. Have you checked pictures from other high altitude sources?

[Ahmabeliever]

I'm looking at exact same thing on Google Earth right now.

Nice! That thing is so big it's in 4 states at once.

What else but a meteor would do that to the landscape - volcano

How big is a meteor in comparison to it's crater?

If it's a hoax it's pretty clever putting it on Google Earth.

[Thunderbird]

Its not a crater, craters are round concave depressions, this looks more like lineaments and deformations due to mountain building process. Meteors do not leave skid marks, except in movies.

[Tolouse]

maybe over time, it became to look like skid marks

but it could have been corrosion that made it look like that

[bigfatpothead]

Really, and what type of corrosive makes mountains?

I don't think this is a direct impact, I think it came in at an angle.

let me hear you explain the craters all over texas, arkansas, and Oklahoma.

also if you look at the city of Marshall Alabama, you can see it is the center.

by the way you said "mountain forming process" what is this process?

Originally Posted by Tolouse

maybe over time, it became to look like skid marks

but it could have been corrosion that made it look like that

[Turtle]

This sounds/looks like part of the Carolina Bays formation. Here's a start for you on that with a thread here at Hypography. >> The Carolina Bays

Here at Hypog we have several threads and lots of links on Earth impacts. :Earth:

Space rock impact site(s)

Craters on Earth and the other Planets

Especially good!! >> Mammoth Comet Extinction...

[LaurieAG]

Originally Posted by bigfatpothead

I don't think this is a direct impact, I think it came in at an angle.

Could it have bounced? For a rough idea look for any other objects/holes/lakes that follow the ratio 7:2 (South:West) of possible craters if the object angles in from the North (North:East if coming from the South etc).

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by LaurieAG

Could it have bounced? For a rough idea look for any other objects/holes/lakes that follow the ratio 7:2 (South:West) of possible craters if the object angles in from the North (North:East if coming from the South etc).

It would have had to an incredible unusual impact for it to have bounced, not impossible I suppose in the grand theme of things but very improbable. Even a totally iron/nickle body would be distroyed by any imaginable impact. Then again if it was traveling really fast at a very shallow angle.....? I know meteors can skip off the atmosphere.... maybe the crater we see was made by the shockwave of a really big iron nickle body skipping of the atmosphere? WOW That would have a sight to see, maybe from the vantage point of the moon

[bigfatpothead]

That is exactly what I think happened. I think it came in at sharp angle and I don't think it had a really great speed. I think it could have even gone back out to space. Is that possible? I am not a physicist, I am a pothead! How do you think I had enough time to find all the tiny craters?

I have a google earth file of the fallout craters, they are all over Texas, Arkansas, Oklohoma, and North Carolina.
http://www.bigfatpothead.com/craters.kmz

download that and put it in your google earth.

Originally Posted by LaurieAG

Could it have bounced? For a rough idea look for any other objects/holes/lakes that follow the ratio 7:2 (South:West) of possible craters if the object angles in from the North (North:East if coming from the South etc).