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Tennessee Crater Inches Toward Recognition

tetrahedrassface writes "Slashdot carried the story of an-as-yet unverified impact crater in Tennessee a couple of years ago. After a few weeks of fairly hardcore sample taking, digging, obtaining some good images and manipulating them, I'm proud to report the first batch of evidence in favor of it being an impact site. The primary smoking gun is the presentation of an astrobleme, obtained from High Resolution Ornithographic Images taken in 2008. Also of note are the melted/deformed rocks, magnetic crater dust, and the fitment of the crater rim to a circle. A rented plane and a bunch of photographs today and it's pretty obvious that it's a crater, folks. Cheers!"

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  1. Re:Pride?? by cob666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It happened a long time ago. No one had anything to do with it.

    It's in Tennessee, God put it there.

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  2. Re:typo? by fm6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where do you think that meteors come from? It turns out that space is inhabited by giant birds,...

  3. Makes perfect sense by wbr1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course it is inching. It is, after all, riding on a tectonic plate!

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  4. Re:Bird pics? by __aaltlg1547 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Angry birds create the craters.