Lonar Crater Lake
We’re all made of stars. That’s what I remind myself of when I look around and just see assholes everywhere. Well, thousands of years ago, a falling star came flying towards the Earth and landed just 150 KMs from my current home. So this Diwali, two of my friends, Mr.Aneesh Ajayan and Mr.Vivek Gupta, and I, decided to visit the place. To see the hole it had left behind. Lonar crater is a lake some 150 KMs from Aurangabad that was formed 52,000 years ago when a meteor struck that place. For the sake of accuracy, you can add or subtract 6,000 years to that figure of fifty-two thousand years. [1] The lake is approx 1.2 KMs in diameter, and the crater is about 1.8 KMs in diameter. It is absolutely circular, as one would expect a crater formed by extra-terrestrial fireballs would be, and is supposedly the third largest crater in the world and the largest in Basalt rock. The other craters in volcanic basalt rock are on the moon of Mars. How’s that for awesome! J The driv