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<< Our Photo Pages >> Henbury Meteorite Craters - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Australia

Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 February 2014  Page Views: 8468

Natural PlacesSite Name: Henbury Meteorite Craters Alternative Name: Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve, Tatyeye Kepmwere, Tatjakapara
Country: Australia Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature

Latitude: 24.571944S  Longitude: 133.148333E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
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2Not Good
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Henbury Meteorite Craters
Henbury Meteorite Craters submitted by Pawl.Seimon : Keep an eye out for the inland Taipan (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The reserve is located 145 kilometres south west of Alice Springs and contains twelve craters, which were formed when a fragmented meteorite hit the earth’s surface. The crater field is considered a sacred site to the Arrernte Aboriginal people and would have impacted during human habitation of the area (approximately 4200 years ago).

In 1934 J M Mitchell wrote that older Aboriginal people would not camp within a couple of miles of the Henbury craters, referring to them as chindu china waru chingi yabu, roughly translating to sun walk fire devil rock.

An elder Aboriginal man that accompanied Mitchell to the site explained that Aboriginal people would not drink rainwater that collected in the craters, fearing the "fire-devil" would fill them with a piece of iron. The man claimed his paternal grandfather had seen the fire-devil and that he came from the sun.

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Henbury Meteorite Craters
Henbury Meteorite Craters submitted by Flickr : Henbury Meteorite Crater Panorama The Henbury Meteorite Craters were formed 4,000 years ago when a metoer broke up and slammed into the desert. Located south of Alice Springs in central Australia. The Apollo astronauts visited this site as part of their training for moon landing missions. Image copyright: Serendigity, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Henbury Meteorite Craters
Henbury Meteorite Craters submitted by Flickr : Henbury Meteorites Site in Australia Image copyright: Alex Brewer77, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Henbury Meteorite Craters
Henbury Meteorite Craters submitted by Flickr (Vote or comment on this photo)

Henbury Meteorite Craters
Henbury Meteorite Craters submitted by Flickr : Henbury Meteorites Reserve Image copyright: Neil Saunders (Neil Saunders), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Henbury Meteorite Craters
Henbury Meteorite Craters submitted by Flickr : Henbury Craters Information Signs The Henbury Meteorite Craters were formed 4,000 years ago when a metoer broke up and slammed into the desert. Located south of Alice Springs in central Australia. The Apollo astronauts visited this site as part of their training for moon landing missions. Image copyright: Serendigity, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Re: Impact Craters in Aboriginal Dreamings: Henbury by ryszard on Saturday, 15 February 2014
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Andy B, have you thought of submitting this to APOD? (Astronomy Picture of the Day? :-

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140212.html

Don't know how one does that. Perhaps through :-

http://www.mtu.edu/physics/department/faculty/nemiroff/ or

http://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html

They are the Editors there
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Indigenous Navigation talk by Prof. Ray Norris (MP3 download) by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 February 2014
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[Not related to the above site but while we're on the subject]

Maps By Night: Indigenous Navigation. On Friday 24 January 2014, Professor Ray Norris gave a talk on Aboriginal astronomy and navigation at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.

In Australian Aboriginal cultures, mental maps are built on songs and ceremony. These songlines and other navigational tools enabled Aboriginal Australians to navigate across the country, trading artefacts and sacred stories. Join Ray Norris as he discusses how Indigenous people used stories and other navigational tools to cross country.

With thanks to Aboriginal Astronomy for the link
http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/exhibitions.html
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Aboriginal folklore leads to meteorite crater by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 February 2014
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News from January 2010: An Australian Aboriginal ‘Dreaming’ story has helped experts uncover a meteorite impact crater in the outback of the Northern Territory.

Duane Hamacher, an astrophysicist studying Aboriginal astronomy at Sydney’s Macquarie University, used Google Maps to search for the signs of impact craters in areas related to Aboriginal stories of stars or stones falling from the sky.

One story, from the folklore of the Arrernte people, is about a star falling to Earth at a site called Puka. This led to a search on Google Maps of Palm Valley, about 130 km southwest of Alice Springs. Here Hamacher discovered what looked like a crater, which he confirmed with surveys in the field in September 2009.

More at
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/aboriginal-dreaming-story-leads-meteorite-crater/
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Impact Craters in Aboriginal Dreamings: Henbury by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 February 2014
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Duane Hamacher writes: The day probably began like any other in the Central Desert of Australia some 4,200 years ago... the men hunted kangaroo in the desert plains while women collected seeds and roots. Or perhaps families were gathered around a campfire while Elders recounted Dreaming stories to wide-eyed children.

Suddenly, a brilliant flash lit up the sky and a deafening roar reverberated across the desert. An object a few tens-of-metres in diameter travelling at ~20 km per second (over 60 times faster than a bullet) broke apart in the atmosphere and struck the earth, excavating a dozen craters scattered over a square kilometre with an energy equivalent to several millions of tons of TNT and scattering iron meteorite fragments across the area.

The impact would have been felt across the region and would have caused grievous harm or death to anyone within several kilometres of the impact site. So did anyone witness the impact? (perhaps someone far enough away to see it but not close enough for them to have been harmed). The relatively young age of the crater-field combined with the fact that Aboriginal people have inhabited the area for tens-of-thousands of years suggests that, yes... they did. But has the memory of the event survived into modern times? Let's explore...

More at
http://aboriginalastronomy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/impact-craters-in-aboriginal-dreamings.html
and part 2
http://aboriginalastronomy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/impact-craters-in-aboriginal-dreamings_28.html
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