Web surfer spots mysterious crater

Concord Monitor (NH) ^ | 3/14/08 | ETHAN WILENSKY-LANFORD

[Renfield]

A Pembroke man was playing with Google Earth - an online digital map of the planet - when he came across something that seemed out of this world: an apparent meteorite crater in Pawtuckaway State Park in Nottingham.

"I was just searching around on Google, looking at lakes, because I'm a sailor," said Stephen Dupuis, 52. "As I was panning down through the landscape, it kind of caught my eye."

Dupuis, a multimedia artist, has been fascinated with astronomy and outer space since his father, a former engineer, built the heat shields used for the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s.

What he saw in Nottingham stirred his interest. He researched impact craters online and wrote to the Earth Impact Database, which is run out of the University of New Brunswick. Nobody has responded yet.

"They didn't show anything in New Hampshire," he said of the database's maps. "Maybe somebody now will look at this and say, 'Hey that is a crater.' "

So far, Dupuis is favoring a scientific explanation for the site.

"There were no crop circles and no flying saucers involved with it," he said.

[Renfield]

Bolide impact ping.

[the invisib1e hand]

googleearth has got to be the best thing that’s ever happened to crop circles.

[blam]

Excellent.

[shibumi]

Whatever-could-it-be?-ping.

Blueberry?

Stone Circle remnant?

Earth Wart?

[Terpfen]

Presuming Google updates its satellite image database while the crop circle is present, sure.

I’m still waiting for them to update the images in Google Maps on the iPhone.

[the invisib1e hand]

oh yeah, forgot to ping the mac users.

Shh! It's where the mother ship lands.

[BenLurkin]

I’m thinking mound builders...

[Salamander]

I just assumed somebody had run across a picture of me.

[RightWhale]

There is also Mount Monadnock. Looks like a giant pingo but it might be the remnant of a crater.

[Brainhose]

It is an ancient Celtic solar calendar. It was comprised of vertical logs arranged in 2 circles, an inner and an outer circle.
There were gaps in the circles that corresponded with solar cycles which they used to indicate when they should plant certain crops.

[Swordmaker]

Whatever-could-it-be?-ping.

I don't think it is a crater. It looks like it might be a circular redoubt - a fort. There appears to be a trapezoidal foundation in the circle and several other circular foundation remnants as well as what appear to be other wall foundations. Maybe it's what's left of Camelot. They should look around and see if there is any antique camel dung...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield. I didn't catch the diameter, but if sufficiently small, this looks an awful lot like a megalith-builder earthwork. :')

· join · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post new topic ·

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Renfield. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
· Google · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology magazine · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Mirabilis · Texas AM Anthropology News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · · History or Science & Nature Podcasts · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·

[ElkGroveDan]

You missed this link on the same page: Flash: Ring volcanic, not meteoric

[American_Centurion]

Note to anyone living in the area of this ring. Do you know where diamonds are found? In the ancient lava tubes of extinct volcanos.

Hint. Hint. Wink. Wink.

[Mike Darancette]

Were I you I would have kept quiet and hit that place with a metal detector.

[Mr. K]

Allow me to be the first...

ahem...

BUSH DID IT!

[ElkGroveDan]

Were I you I would have kept quiet and hit that place with a metal detector.

Good idea. While diamonds aren't metallic, the rings they are usually mounted in are.

[null and void]

Whatever-could-it-be?-ping.

Blueberry?

Stone Circle remnant?

Earth Wart?

Astroblem.