Posted on 03/15/2008 8:12:40 AM PDT by 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.
The site looks man made to me maybe even Roman or Norse. People in Britain are finding neat things like coins and Norse burial sites all of the time.
Oops that is in the USA, HMMMM
43° 6’48.83”N
71°11’24.41”W
1.75+/- mile diameter outer rampart rim to outer rampart rim. No idea of depths/heights. Also didn’t measure any inner diameters.
So is this in England or our state of New Hampshire. Can you be more precise about the location. Also, if it is 1.7 miles in diameter, that makes a fort a less likely option. Does it have a central mound like boloids often do. Where is true north on that photo? Would like to compare it with orientation of Carolina Bays and similar features.
I LOVE Pawtuckaway!
Awesome campgrounds!
Very precise, thank you.
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