BIG BANG IN ANTARCTICA -- KILLER CRATER FOUND UNDER ICE

Ohio State University ^ | 01 June 2006 | Staff (press release)

[PatrickHenry]

Everybody be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Altair333]

This is huge news if it pans out.

[NormsRevenge]

300-mile-wide crater

That's a big 'un. Wow.

[BenLurkin]

Lunar Mascons:

[DBrow]

Is the P-T event associated with an irridium layer?

[WoofDog123]

I had wondered if the super-continent break-up might have been related to a monsterous impact.

[BenLurkin]

Near Lake Vostok?

[Centurion2000]

The Chicxulub meteor is thought to have been 6 miles wide, while the Wilkes Land meteor could have been up to 30 miles wide -- four or five times wider.

30 miles wide. Kinda explains why 95% of life died out.

[The_Victor]

while the Wilkes Land meteor could have been up to 30 miles wide

That's gonna leave a mark....

[lesser_satan]

bump

[Robert A Cook PE]

Their research, backup data, and logic looks pretty good.

It makes sense that an earlier collision (but smaller than the original earth -> moon collision) happened to kill the Premian species.

It is Bush's fault that the crater lies on a rift line.

[Lekker 1]

I'm sure women and minority dinosaurs were hardest hit.

[angkor]

My crater is bigger than your crater.

[Dog]

300 mile wide crater...wow.

[Diego1618]

This doesn't surprise me in the least. I have a feeling before it's all over we'll find all kinds of things buried under a mile of ice.....things that will answer a lot of questions.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ok.

now, knowing that the Antarctic land mass has moved a long ways since the breakup of the original continental masses, why did the mass they found underneath stay with the surface rock?

[JRios1968]

Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs -- an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.

And it was caused by Karl Rove!

[WoofDog123]

that must have had an exponentially greater climate impact than the C-T (alvarez) impact.