T.K.O.

neufer · Post by **neufer** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:44 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun-Khara-Obo_crater wrote:
T.K.O.

<<Tabun-Khara-Obo (aka Tavan Har Obo) is an impact crater in the Dornogovi Aimag (province) the south-east of Mongolia. The crater, which is exposed at the surface, is 1.3 km in diameter. The crater’s rim rises some 20 to 30 meters above the crater bottom. It has an estimated age of 150 ± 20 million years (Upper Jurassic).>>

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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=40072 wrote:
<<In southeastern Mongolia, roughly halfway between Ulaanbaatar and Beijing, lies an ancient crater. Tabun Khara Obo (sometimes spelled with hyphens) was first identified as a probable impact crater in 1976, although confirmation of the hypothesis only occurred decades later. Drilling at the site in 2008 revealed rock features consistent with high-speed impacts such as those caused by meteorites.

The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite acquired this true-color image on August 28, 2009. Sunlight shines from the southeast, leaving the northern and western slopes in shadow. The crater’s rim rises some 20 to 30 meters (65 to 100 feet) above the crater bottom. The crater occurs on a block of Proterzoic rock more than 600 million years old, but the crater’s age—which may be considerably younger—has not yet been identified.>>