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World's 1st mountaintop impact crater discovered in northeastern China
Live Science ^ | September 14, 2023 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 09/17/2023 6:23:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

A two-peaked mountain in northeastern China is the site of the world's first confirmed mountaintop crater.

A nearly mile-wide (1.6 kilometer) divot in a Chinese mountaintop is actually an impact crater from a long-ago meteorite landing.

The newly discovered crater, located in northeastern China not far from the North Korean border, is the first confirmed mountaintop crater on Earth. Researchers aren't sure when the impact happened, but it left a circular depression and split the mountaintop into two peaks, known as Front Baijifeng and Rear Baijifeng.

The mountain peaks are littered with rock fragments known locally as "celestial stone," which turns out to be a scientifically accurate moniker... rocks on the peaks bear the telltale shock patterns of an impact with a space object...

The granite that makes up the crater formed between 150 million and 172 million years ago, which means the impact must have happened after this period, but the exact timing remains unknown, according to the new paper. Weathering patterns at one of the only other two confirmed impact craters in China — the Yilan crater in Heilongjiang province — are similar to the patterns seen on Baijifeng, the researchers wrote, suggesting their ages might be similar.

Yilan crater, at 49,000 years old, is the largest impact crater under 100,000 years old ever found. The third impact crater in China, also confirmed by Chen, is called the Xiuyan crater, also in the country's northeast.

A very massive crater, known only from the scattered glassy rocks created by the impact that fell as far away as Australia, may also be buried beneath the desert in northwestern China, according to research published in August in the journal Scientific Reports. But scientists have yet to uncover its location.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; china; impact; science; xiuyancrater; yilancrater
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Chinese scientists have found evidence that Baijifeng Mountain was hit by an object from space, resulting in its twin peaks and unique impact structure.
Image credit: Centre for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research
Image credit: Centre for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research

1 posted on 09/17/2023 6:23:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 09/17/2023 6:23:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

They should have said this is the first mountaintop “meteor” crater ever found. I remember when it was common to refer to a volcano’s caldera as a “crater.”


3 posted on 09/17/2023 7:08:50 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Berosus

You’ve seen one you’ve seen em’ all.


4 posted on 09/17/2023 7:35:24 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: SunkenCiv
A two-peaked mountain in northeastern China is the site of the world's first confirmed mountaintop crater.A nearly mile-wide (1.6 kilometer) divot in a Chinese mountaintop is actually an impact crater from a long-ago meteorite landing.

News to me that meteorites 'land'. /s

5 posted on 09/17/2023 8:40:51 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

Would you prefer “touch down”? Maybe “ease their way to the surface”?


6 posted on 09/17/2023 9:22:44 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: SunkenCiv

There’s lots of meteor craters on tops of mountains. You can’t see them because of the trees. You have to go into the mountains and ask the hunters or the Indians. They won’t show up on a satellite or aerial photo. These people have very little common sense. They must be city slickers...never set foot in the mountains.


7 posted on 09/17/2023 9:32:43 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: bunkerhill7

Hunting as kids we found 3 on top of Mountain here 8 miles from my farm..later We flew over them in Stearman cropduster and took couple of photos. We recognize right away because my sister has one in her farm and we walked right over the edges of them and said, Hey! Nobody builds a wall with no stones...”
Some of them are guess wait for it.mountain lakes... Who woulda thunk it


8 posted on 09/17/2023 9:42:54 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: bunkerhill7

Looking back now I fogger it was part of a comet breaking up coz couples years ago we found mor in a straight line 5 miles away


9 posted on 09/17/2023 9:44:41 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: bunkerhill7

Could be caldera - A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption.

Unless the geology says positively no vulcanism!

Also, it would be good to get some samples and see if they show impact stress before concluding they were from meteorites.


10 posted on 09/17/2023 9:47:48 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

So...the twin peaks were actually a single peak at one time until the meteorite hit? I bet that kicked up some debris.


11 posted on 09/17/2023 10:09:58 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: SunkenCiv
"The mountain peaks are littered with rock fragments known locally as "celestial stone,"..."

"How to get Celestial Stone & Shell in Terraria! Moon & Sun Stone, Moon Charm & Neptune's Shell!"

12 posted on 09/17/2023 10:17:41 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Berosus

I don’t see anything particularly noteworthy. There must be literally thousands of ancient strike sites now largely obliterated by time, tectonic movement & earthquakes and erosion.


13 posted on 09/17/2023 10:35:18 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: moovova

Cosmik Debris (Live From Edinboro, PA - May 8, 1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwMPRSWaeiM


14 posted on 09/17/2023 10:52:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Cosmik Debris. Love me some Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.


15 posted on 09/17/2023 11:06:25 AM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: SunkenCiv

They seem to have forgotten the Cumberland Gap in the USA.


16 posted on 09/17/2023 11:10:41 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Frank Zappa...a true & gifted showman...and very interesting person. Per wiki:

“He always encouraged his fans to register to vote on album covers, and throughout 1988, he had registration booths at his concerts.[9]: 348 He even considered running for president of the United States as an independent.[9]: 365 [137]”


17 posted on 09/17/2023 11:14:11 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova
He was a libertarian and probably a curmudgeon. In the High Times interview back, hmm, early-1980s or maybe 1890s I dunno, he talked about being on a plane next to a Spanish politician (maybe their head of state) and being asked for some advice. His political aspirations were probably never 100 percent serious, but he said his platform was to dismantle the federal gov't except for the DoD. Sort of constructionist. :^)

18 posted on 09/17/2023 11:23:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Deaf Smith

I bought a pair of pants at the Cumberland Gap, and guess what? There was a hole in them! ;^)


19 posted on 09/17/2023 11:25:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Reily

The craters are the top of granite mountains. The glaciers would have wiped volcanoes down smooth. These got shaped edges blasted right into the granite.
My cousin is a geologist.
He told me they were parts of a comet because they are close together not many many miles apart except the other group.


20 posted on 09/17/2023 11:29:32 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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