[NormsRevenge]

Landsat image (color composite) of the newfound Kebira Crater in the Western Desert of Egypt at the border with Libya. The outer rim of the crater is about 19 miles (31 km) in diameter. Image courtesy of Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

[muawiyah]

Yup, we got one of them too ~ right down to the concentric rings ~ the center of the impact is over there on the Delmarva peninsula. You can make out the circular shape by checking out the "FAll LINE" in NJ, PA, MD, VA and NC.

Makes for really interesting subsurface structures too!

[A CA Guy]

Wonder when that hit, because that was for sure almost 4 times the size needed to end all life on earth when it hit.

Pre-Bush's fault for sure.

[martin_fierro]

24° 40' 23.24" N, 24° 57' 51.02" E on Google Earth

[Lancey Howard]

Great post!

[Cvengr]

I wonder what proof exists this is not an older sinkhole, or simply an indentation from that great knuckleball emanating from the Big Bang.

[adorno]

In fact, the newfound crater, in Egypt, was likely carved by a space rock that was itself roughly 0.75 miles wide in an event that would have been quite a shock, destroying everything for hundreds of miles.

It seems that with this crater from a space rock and all of the other similar collisions that the earth has endured during its history, that there should be no signs of life on the planet.

[Flavius]

great post,thanks

[BostonianRightist]

How was this just discovered now? 19 mile diameter - are we gonna find another "New World" again?

[The KG9 Kid]

"... The crater was discovered in satellite images by Boston University researchers Farouk El-Baz..."

Also known as 'Apollo space program legend Dr. Farouk El-Baz'.

[NormsRevenge]

Kibera crater ping

[Right Wing Assault]

Wow! Even with the circle around it, though, it seems kind of hard to miss.

Maybe there's a big chunk of rock in there someone could worship.

[wideminded]

Somewhere in Western Egypt is the Qattara Depression, a large area that is quite far below sea level. IIRC one of the early proposals for the "peaceful use" of nuclear explosives was to blast a channel to the Qattara Depression from the Mediterranean Sea, thus creating a new inland sea and perhaps moderating the climate of the western desert, creating more habitable land in Egypt. Another proposal involves using conventional means to excavate large enough channel from the Mediterranean to allow hydroelectric power to be generated by water descending into the Depression (and then evaporating). Apprently this idea has also been shelved for now.

[Tzimisce]

I was about to say - 19 miles in diameter would be hard to miss.

[blam]

I wonder if it came at the same time as this one discovered in Iraq when Saddam drained the swamps in the south?

Disaster That Struck The Ancients

Iraq - Dated to 2200BC

[mowowie]

Just saw a movie that centered aroud a huge crater in Australia in a very remote place called Wolfe Creek. Very huge and impressive. Anybody ever seen it?

[seastay]

wonder if the crater this anything to do with this spectacle At the south-east corner of the Ka'bah, near the door, is the famous black stone, which forms a part of the sharp angle of the building, at four or five feet above the ground. The black stone is an irregular oval. about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller storm of different shapes and sizes. According to the rites of the pilgrimage, this stone; which is called ar-Ruknu ‘l-Yamani, or Yaman pillar, should only be touched with ,the right hand as the pilgrim passes it, butSir Richard Burton, who made the pilgrimage in disguise in 1853, have suggested that the Black Stone is really a meteorite. www.bible.ca/islam/ islam-meteorite-worship.htm

[Havoc]

Good grief. These folks probably spell words in their cherios and look for faces in the shadows of their shag carpets.

[metmom]

Looks like this is the day for scientists finding things, ping

[taxesareforever]

just discovered this huge crater on earth but yet are able to tell whether there is global warming by the melting of ice caps. Something truly wrong with this picture.