Tswaing Meteorite Impact Crater - South Africa
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I visited this crater in 2006, it is near Johannesburg, SA while on my way to Tanzania for an expedition to recover meteorites in Ufana.
1.13 km in diameter, 100 m deep] and the age is estimated to be 220,000 ± 52,000 years (Pleistocene). The impactor is believed to have been a stony meteorite some 30 to 50 m in diameter that was vaporised during the impact event.
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Tswaing Meteor Crater PPG XC
Pilots: Frans Van Der Merwe, Charles Barnhoorn
Powered Paragliding PPG XC from Hartbeespoortdam to Tswaing Meteor Crater, Johannesburg South Africa
Some 220 000 years ago a blazing stony meteorite the size of half a football field slammed into the earth’s crust. The impact formed a huge crater, 1.4 km in diameter and 200 m deep. This crater is one of the best-preserved meteorite impact craters in the world. The name Tswaing means Place of Salt in Setswane, and refers to a saline lake that covers the crater floor.
Tswaing Meteorite Crater
Tswaing is an impact crater in South Africa that is accompanied by a museum. It is situated 40 km to the north-west of Pretoria. This astrobleme is 1.13 km in diameter and 100 m deep and the age is estimated to be 220,000 ± 52,000 years.
The Visitor Centre at Tswaing
The Visitor Centre is an artistic intervention devised to interrogate human perceptions of smaller urban animals. In order to encourage a perception of the entangled relationships between co-existing subjects in multispecies assemblages, the artwork initiates public conversations and reflections on human-animal encounters in the city. The Visitor Centre was introduced as a first prototype to audiences during a series of events held at Tswaing Meteorite Crater reserve in Soshanguve, Tshwane and later at Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve.
Tswaing crater - Video Learning - WizScience.com
Tswaing is an impact crater in South Africa. It is situated 40 km to the north-west of Pretoria. This astrobleme is 1.13 km in diameter and 100 m deep and the age is estimated to be 220,000 ± 52,000 years . The impactor is believed to have been a chondrite or stony meteorite some 30 to 50 m in diameter that was vaporized during the impact event. Morokweng crater, another crater of chondrite origin, lies north-west of Vryburg.
The name Tswaing means Place of Salt in Tswana and the crater was also formerly known in and in . Stone tools from the Middle Stone Age show that the crater was regularly visited by people from as far back as 100,000 years ago in order to hunt and collect salt. Water in the crater comes from surface springs, ground water and rain water and is rich in dissolved carbonates and sodium chlorides. Tswana and Sotho people harvested the salt by filtering and decoction between 1200 and 1800. Between 1912 and 1956 brine was pumped from the floor of the crater by the company SA Alkali Ltd. in order to extract soda and salt.
A scientific dispute was ongoing regarding the origin of the crater between supporters of volcanic origin and those who believed that this is an impact crater until 1990, when a research of the core of a borehole proved that this is an impact crater.
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