The study of meteorite craters on Earth provides information about the dynamic evolution of bodies within the Solar System. Bosumtwi crater is a well studied, 10.5 km in diameter, ca. 1.07 Ma old impact structure located in Ghana. The impactor was ∼ 1 km in diameter, an ordinary chondrite and struck the Earth with an angle between 30∘ and 45∘ from the horizontal. We have used a two phase backward integration to constrain the most probable parent region of the impactor. We find that the most likely source region is a high inclination object from the Middle Main Belt.
@article{arxiv.1305.3631,
title = {A statistical dynamical study of meteorite impactors: a case study based on parameters derived from the Bosumtwi impact event},
author = {M. A. Galiazzo and Á. Bazsó and M. S. Huber and A. Losiak and R. Dvorak and C. Koeberl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3631},
year = {2015}
}