LONAR CRATER
66Lonar crater is importent meteorological crater in india.Crater formed in balsalt rock 35 to 50 thousand ago.Initially people called volkanic crater.but in 1883 J. E. Alexander decleared as impact crater.this crater is just like arizona crater. except water in lonar crater.
lonar crater situated in buldana(my home town) district at lonar village.crater is 1.83 km in diameter and avarage 170m in depth and age is about 50000 yrs.
crater is 550 km from mumbai,160 km from auaragabad,100 km from buldana and 4 hour drive from ajanta caves. nearest railway station is mulkapur.
crater is importent for astronamer as well as travellar.there are two guest houses near the crater.
There are reverse magnetism at crater age,means magnetic campass shows south as north.
It is great expririence to see the crater at sunrise and sunset.
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hi visheela i'm an architect student in jj college of architecture
we r supposed to desined interpretation centre at lonar giving info abt crater
so if can u mail me plan and section of the crater , microclimate of the lonar
hiee very interesting info
i m a student of architecture from srir JJ college mumbai
we need to execute a project at a site in lonar...it would be great if u could mail me a site plan and images of the region...ur assiatance would help a lot...since the site is pretty remote its sorta tough tofind a proper layout...thanks..
hi vasheela iam deepak i m stay in Bombay but i don t no lonar crater about may be i am coming in 2010 in lonar
i have visited lonar twice as an amateur astronomer.but sadly to say that it is not maintained.let us do something to save it. sureshchopane@rediffmail.com
Mr Nice says:
2 years ago
Hi Vasheela, Very interesting information but there are lots of spelling mistakes on your hubs. I think you should compose and check the spellings with Microsoft word and then post them.