Comments on: Google Earth: Impact Structures Continued

By: Nono

Nono — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:32:24 +0000

I made a Blog with various categories (short stories, poems, animals, …) and Google Earth. As I noticed than visitors are very interested by this category I send to them a link to your Blog. (See : http://jean.sudarovich.free.fr/index.php/2005/10/29/blog-sur-google-earth/)
Thank you for the quality of your informations

By: Caspar

Caspar — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:16:21 +0000

Hi Frank,

That’s something I noticed as well. It’s a left-over from the Earth Impact Database table, in which ages are presented this way. For older craters it doesn’t matter because most are measured in millions of years. But for sub-million years, you’ll get these weird 0.0000xx dates. I’ve been meaning to fix this, either by hand or automatically. I haven’t decided yet.

As for ‘mio’… It’s something, but what I meant was ‘Million’. That’s fixed now.

By: Frank Taylor

Frank Taylor — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:37:20 +0000

I’m wondering if you should use different notation for your ages in the most recent collection. I’m thinking some non-scientific types might be a bit thrown off by “Age: 0.049 ± 0.003 Mio years”.

And, what exactly is a “mio”?