Meteorite Crater on Mt Ararat?

“Technology Review,” a publication of MIT, published a story on Thurs., Nov. 18 titled “Unrecorded Meteorite Crater Found on Mount Ararat?”

'Unrecorded Meteorite Crater Found on Mount Ararat?'

The article reveals that two physicists, Vahe Gurzadyan from the Yerevan Physics Institute in Armenia and Sverre Aarseth from the University of Cambridge in the UK, somehow gained access to the northern and western slopes of Mount Ararat—areas that are off-limits to visitors—and there discovered a “well-preserved” crater “at an altitude of 2100 meters, at coordinates 39˚ 47’ 30”N, 44˚ 14’ 40”E, and…some 70 meters across.”

The physicists published their account on the online journal arXiv.org, titled “A Meteorite Crater on Mt. Ararat?”

They propose that the crater was formed due to either volcanic activity or as a result of a meteorite crash.

“Interestingly, the crater wasn’t their only discovery during their trip. Because the region is closed, it is virtually unexplored. Gurzadyan and Aarseth say they also stumbled across the remains of a 5th and 6th-century Armenian basilica that is unknown to experts,” notes the Review.

6 Comments

  1. I just wish that our jewel, our mountain is released from the sharp claws of the devil herself, Turkey so that our scientists, and physicists and others can discover more ancient and undiscovered things and territories.. i am sure there are so many other undiscovered areas that may have facts and tid bids that will tell a story to the world about Armenians…

    I am glad that Vahe, and Savrre did not stop and persued their cause by discovering such place.. I pray to God to protect them and drive them to continue their work..

    God Bless

    Gayane

  2. I put the coordinates given above, 39˚ 47’ 30”N, 44˚ 14’ 40”E,  into Google Earth. Maybe you should check your facts. Those coordinates are in a nieghborhood in Cancun, Mexico.

    How ’bout give us the correct location?

  3. Ararat Armenian Mount


    Ara, the handsome king of Armenia,
    Had a kingdom around Mount Ararat,
    From centuries since Pharaoh,
    Acadians and Assyrian prime, hence signed.

    Why and how?
    None of us can understand.
    Recent maps grafted Ararat on the Turkish land.

    Everyone knows Ararat
    Belonged to Armenian land,
    Only few kilometers away
    From the capital, Yerevan ray,

    Known as Erebuni* before religions existed to abide,
    Now named under invader’s land by cartographers.
    Armenian children sing and sketch for reign: the Ararat.
    But never known any Turk do those as drafts.

    Some nations not only rape girls, innocents.
    Nevertheless, mountains and lands,
    Human rights should study take part; return
    The mountain’s name to the native’s heart.

    Ararat never belonged to
    Mongols, Seljuk, Mamlukes, or Ottomans.
    Earthly belonged to Armenians;
    Historians know the crude truth
    Before Christ, after Christ was crucified.

    That affirms Genesis read by every erudite.
    Noah’s ark landed after the flood
    On our beautiful peaked Mount Ararat,
    On the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

    Turks invaded in the sixteenth century,
    Claiming the mount as theirs, steeling a grant.
    Even devils cannot equate
    How Ararat moved to unsown ground.

    Atom Egoyan’s film Ararat
    Wasn’t filmed on its true land.
    Filming never allowed.
    God’s knowing people reigned.

    Turkey must change its past unviable domain.
    Mountains cannot lament on its terrain.
    Democracy should run fairness to unchain
    After cleansing tortured blood drizzling red-rain.

    (c) Sylva-MD-Poetry

    2007
    ___________________________________
    * Erebuni: Armenian fortress (782 BC)
     

  4. Meteorite:
    This article is about debris from space that survives impact with the ground. For other uses of “Meteor” and “Meteors”, see Meteor (disambiguation). For popular applications, see Falling star (disambiguation). For the fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, see Meteorite (comics).


    Willamette Meteorite discovered in the U.S. state of Oregon

    meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth’s surface. Meteorites can be big or small. Most meteorites derive from small astronomical objects called meteoroids, but they are also sometimes produced by impacts of asteroids. When it enters the atmosphere, impact pressurecauses the body to heat up and emit light, thus forming a fireball, also known as a meteor or shooting/falling star. The term bolide refers to either an extraterrestrial body that collides with the Earth, or to an exceptionally bright, fireball-like meteor regardless of whether it ultimately impacts the surface.
    More generally, a meteorite on the surface of any celestial body is a natural object that has come from elsewhere in space. Meteorites have been found on the Moon[1][2] and Mars.[3]
    Meteorites that are recovered after being observed as they transited the atmosphere or impacted the Earth are called falls. All other meteorites are known as finds. As of February 2010, there are approximately 1,086witnessed falls having specimens in the world’s collections. In contrast, there are over 38,660 well-documented meteorite finds.[4]
    Meteorites have traditionally been divided into three broad categories: stony meteorites are rocks, mainly composed of silicate mineralsiron meteorites are largely composed of metallic iron-nickel; and, stony-iron meteorites contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material. Modern classification schemes divide meteorites into groups according to their structure, chemical and isotopic composition and mineralogy(wikipedia)
     

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