Mystery of the mile-wide ring in Antarctica: Enormous scar may be crater from house-sized meteorite

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 12, 2015 | Richard Gray

[C19fan]

An enormous impact crater thought to have been created by a meteorite the size of a house smashing into Earth has been discovered in the Antarctic ice sheet. Scientists conducting a routine aerial research flight above East Antarctica noticed a strange ring-like structure in the normally flat and featureless ice. It appeared to be a series of broken 'icebergs' surrounded by a 2km (1.24 miles) wide circular scar, surrounded by a few other smaller circular scars in the ice.

[C19fan]

Movies like "The Thing" have taught me mysterious ring in Antarctica = Bad News!

[freedumb2003]

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Artist's rendition of the cataclysmic event:

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I can think of several better places for it to land.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

[Jim Noble]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

One thing that puzzles me about that shot from John Carpenter's 'The Thing'.

Did the Norwegians excavate that site? Did they remove the material from above the spacecraft? If so, where is all the snow and ice? Plus, with the resources available to them in Antarctica, it would have been a near impossible task to excavate and remove that much material. I mean, we're talking Arcturian megatons of snow and ice.

[wiggen]

Short story, “Who Goes There?” written in 1938.

[Red Badger]

It gives the ‘impression’ of recent descent...............

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I mean, we’re talking Arcturian megatons of snow and ice. “

A bigger question is, how did those three guys do it?

[DAC21]

[null and void]

John W. Campbell, Jr.

No movie will ever be able to capture the quiet claustrophobic horror of that tale.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Similar to the Tunguska Event?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

A bigger question is, how did those three guys do it?

Well, they didn't. That's McCready, Fuchs and the Doc from the American station. The Norwegians discovered the spacecraft and presumably excavated it. We know it wasn't a recent crash because in the film Doc states that based on the depth, it has been in the ice for about 100,000 years. So...that means it was buried.

[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

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[Albion Wilde]

It's this. It's just frozen over:

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks C19fan.

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[tophat9000]

I really do love the original “The Thing” far more then the remake

[rdl6989]

George Noory, please pick up the yellow courtesy phone.

[publius911]

Scientists conducting a routine aerial research flight above East Antarctica...

If you want to drive yourself crazy, ponder this...

All directions are "North" when on Antarctica.

So where is "East Antarctica?"