The drilling, which began on July 23 and is expected to grind on at this site until September, has now reached about 107 meters below land surface.The scientists and heavy equipment handlers hope that by the end of August they will reach the layer of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater where...
1. The largest impact crater on Earth, the Vredefort crater in South Africa, is 99 miles (160 km) wide and was likely created about 2 billion years ago, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. The crater has largely eroded, but based on what's left of the rim, scientists have estimated...
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A crater and its ejecta: An interpretation of Deep Impact We apply recently updated scaling laws for impact cratering and ejecta to interpret observations of the Deep Impact event. An important question is whether... Keith,A.,Holsapple,... - 《Icarus》 被引量: 330发表: 2007年 What is a ...
What remains is a shallow, circular crater. Much of the debris falls nearby and forms an elevated ejecta blanket. Except for the slowest moving asteroid, it doesn't matter what angle the meteor comes in at. The underground explosion produces the crater, not the initial penetration. It also ...
And the spot where the gravity readings are especially high...this is right in the middle of a 500-kilometer wide, circular ridge, what could be part of an old impact crater. And if there was an asteroid impact there in Wilkes Land, the next question is: did it happen 250 million yea...
What could have caused this.Well, with the all the evidence that it was an asteroid that led to the dinosaur extinction, we began asking ourselves: is it possible that another asteroid much earlier caused the Permian Extinction?And so researchers have been looking for an impact crater.FEMALE ...
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Scientists must know how complete the record is in order to find out how long the extinction of dinosaurs took. To use the movie example, it's like trying to find how much time has passed since an event (like a murder) occurred. If all of the frames are present, we know the amount...