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An Astrophysical and Geological Analysis of the Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA Asteroid Crater
25/02/2023 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST
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An Astrophysical and Geological Analysis of the Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA Asteroid Crater
The town of Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA is located within an Asteroid Crater that formed sometime in the last 300 Million years ago. I visited the crater to collect samples and take pictures of the rock outcrops within the crater during the Spring of 2022. Based on the diameter of the crater (3.67 miles), Dr. George Djorgovski at Caltech (CuriousGeorge on SL) estimated that the size of an asteroid with density of 3 g/mL may have been 0.5 miles in diameter. A geological study of asteroids that have struck Kentucky suggests that the density may have been about 6 g/mL and that a size of 0.25 may be more accurate. This study has implications for studying not only craters on the surface of the Earth, but also for doing mining on asteroid terrains in a future Mars colony.
By Dr. William Schmachtenberg – Dae Miami
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