ABSTRACTThe Carolina “craters” or “Bays” seem unlikely to have had a meteoritic origin, because: (a) not one meteorite is known to have been indisputably associated with any of the hundreds of craters, tho many are very small; (b) the subsurface strata are undisturbed; (c) the smaller craters are not more “filled‐in” than the larger; and (d) the symmetry of the Rains, South Carolina, group can hardly be explained by a chance distribution of 6 bodies traveli