What is it and where is it located?
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What is it and where is it located?
When a giant space rock slammed into Earth 65 million years ago near the present-day village of Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula, not only did it wipe out a lot of dinosaurs, it left behind a huge crater and, inside that pock, an even bigger mystery.
A tourist in the jungle outside Chicxulub, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of Cancun, wouldn’t see any evidence of the crater, now buried in eons of sediment. And she wouldn’t suspect she was standing more than a half-mile (1 kilometer) above the center of the crater.
But scientists found the crater a decade ago using seismic monitoring equipment designed to hunt for oil. And now they have created an animated computer model that shows how the crater might have formed — and how it would have left behind an otherwise inexplicable inner ring.
The collision
A comet or asteroid the size of a small city rocked the planet, sending giant tsunamis across the ocean and earthquakes reverberating around the globe. It also turned much of the Yucatan into mush, scientists suspect, causing rock to behave like a thick
….liquid.
Lord liverwurst,
Please, can you send a link where one can get info about this collision etc..
Best wishes
A. Weiler
Just put any of ‘liverwurst’s’ text into Google and you will come up with:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/asteroid_jello_001122.html
which may or may not survive formatting here.
With a little help from Google images – we think the Richat Structure in Mauritania.
The Yucatan impact crater is mostly under water now, with a town near the center (on the coast).
Couldn’t decide if it was impact crater (no rim), or I thought volcanic – seems I was wrong on both counts.
Having hit the answer, the photo is a landsat picture, and the “green” is a figment of the coloring process, the actual structure is surrounded by desert.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/asteroid_jello_001122.html
hope this works
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/
planetearth/asteroid_jello_001122.html
I put an extra space in the middle between the / and planetearth. this should at least print everything needed. just patch the two parts back as one.
hope this works.