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To: CurlyDave
why the crater is much closer to being square than round

Craters are 'supposed' to be round, which is why Hoagland sees inner Buksminster Fuller structure in Iapetus. If a crater has straight sides, it must be something in the underlying terrain that gives preferential direction to the excavation. Fault lines would do it.

128 posted on 04/16/2005 10:40:20 PM PDT by RightWhale (50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
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To: RightWhale
I agree that craters are "supposed" to be round.

I am not as ready to accept that the meteor landed right smack dab in the middle of a set of fault lines laid out on a checkerboard square pattern.

One fault line which would produce a distorted circle, or two parallel ones which would produce a distorted oval I could accept, but the symmetry of the square pattern is very great. A hit somewhere other than in the middle of a square (very, very rare) geologic formation would be expected to produce a crater of a different shape.

I can not think of any other square geologic formations on that scale anywhere on earth--can anyone else?

132 posted on 04/16/2005 10:55:33 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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