Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-C) Images Reveal Multiple Impact Craters at Aorounga, Northern Chad

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..977o&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 977

Physics

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Chad, Craters: Impact, Impacts: Meteorite, Impacts: Multiple

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The recently discovered Aorounga impact crater in northern Chad was imaged by SIR-C during several passes of the space shuttle Endeavor in 1994. Our analyses of the radar images reveal that Aorounga is a multiple impact site with three or possibly four craters. Each crater is approximately 11-12 km in diameter and their centers are spaced 14-20 km apart in a NNE trending arc. The Aorounga craters are perhaps the largest group of >10 km diameter craters known on Earth and were apparently formed by the breakup of a large comet or asteroid prior to impact.

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