The approximate time of Kaali meteorite fall is 7500-7600 years ago. Kaali is the only sacred lake in Estonia created by a meteorite. At the height of 5-10 km meteorite fell apart and came down to the ground in pieces the biggest of which created a big crater with diameter of 110 m and depth of 22 m and 8 smaller craters.
The many findings of the bones of domestic animals give a reason to believe that it used to be a sacrificial site. Among the world’s giant craters Kaali crater is on 8th place. Kaali field of meteorite craters on Saaremaa is the rarest nature wonder in Estonia, being at the same time the most spectacular in Eurasia.
Note that this is thought to be only one of three meteorite impact events that have occurred in populated areas and have survived in human memory and the only one in Europe. It survives in Estonian, Karelian and Finnish mythologies and folk tales, being also described in the Finnish national epic *Kalevala*. The impact energy is thought to be comparable with that of the Hiroshima bomb blast.
u/Captain__Spiff
I’d love to sit and meditate here
Does kaali mean something in Estonian? It means “cabbage” in Finnish.
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The approximate time of Kaali meteorite fall is 7500-7600 years ago. Kaali is the only sacred lake in Estonia created by a meteorite. At the height of 5-10 km meteorite fell apart and came down to the ground in pieces the biggest of which created a big crater with diameter of 110 m and depth of 22 m and 8 smaller craters.
The many findings of the bones of domestic animals give a reason to believe that it used to be a sacrificial site. Among the world’s giant craters Kaali crater is on 8th place. Kaali field of meteorite craters on Saaremaa is the rarest nature wonder in Estonia, being at the same time the most spectacular in Eurasia.
Note that this is thought to be only one of three meteorite impact events that have occurred in populated areas and have survived in human memory and the only one in Europe. It survives in Estonian, Karelian and Finnish mythologies and folk tales, being also described in the Finnish national epic *Kalevala*. The impact energy is thought to be comparable with that of the Hiroshima bomb blast.
u/Captain__Spiff
I’d love to sit and meditate here
Does kaali mean something in Estonian? It means “cabbage” in Finnish.