Comment by karaterobot

I just finished reading The Empty Quarter by St John Philby, which has bit about trying to find the lost city of Wabar, now associated with the Wabar meteor crater. The Bedouin guides talk about a chunk of iron the size of a camel, which some of them had seen personally. At the time of the expedition, they couldn't t find it anymore, presumably because the sand had covered it up. This was 1932. In 1966, the sands had shifted again and the iron was visible to a National Geographic expedition. By 1982, it had nearly disappeared again. I have no trouble believing the remains of a meteor could exist in the sands near Mauritania, and not happen to be locatable at the moment.