ScienceDaily [USA], Sep. 27, 2010
A 2008 Google Earth search led to the discovery of Kamil crater, one of
the best-preserved meteorite impact sites ever found. Earlier this year,
a gritty, sand-blown expedition reached the site deep in the Egyptian
desert to collect iron debris and determine the crater's age and
origins. One day within the last several thousand years, a rare metallic
meteorite travelling over 12 000 km/hour smashed into Earth's surface
near what is today the trackless border region between Egypt, Sudan and
Libya. Since then, the crater had sat undisturbed by Earth's geologic
and climatic processes, which usually render all but the very largest
terrestrial impact craters invisible. It was also, as far as is
recorded, unseen by humans. But that changed in 2008, when the crater
was spotted during a Google Earth study conducted by mineralologist
Vincenzo De Michele, then with the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale in
Milan, Italy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923081902.htm
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