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Lonar Crater, Maharashtra, India, P-K

Lonar Crater, Maharashtra, India

Lonar Crater, Maharashtra, India, P-K

Lonar Crater, Maharashtra, India

Description

Prompted by wanni posting a photo of Barringer Crater, Arizona, I remembered visiting Lonar Crater in Maharashtra, India.

The meteor crater rim is about 1.8 kilometres (5,900 ft) in diameter, 50% bigger than Barringer. In the central portion of the circular depression is a saline water lake 1.2 kms in diameter. The crater's age is usually estimated to be 52,000 ± 6,000 years, "yesterday" in the age of the universe.

I've included insets to show temple complexes at both ends of the lake and my buddy standing on the rim for some sense of scale, which was very hard to get to grips with.

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Lonar Crater, Maharashtra, India, P-K