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A crater with a diameter of almost five hundred kilometers was discovered in Antarctica by researchers (Ohio University) led by Dr. Ralph von Frese back in 2006. Moreover, scientists determined that the crater stores a huge depth of 850 meters metal mass is another mystery of the ice continent.
Giant meteorite leaving this monstrous crater in the area Wilkes Land, most likely, caused a breakaway of modern Australia from the prehistoric supercontinent of Gondwana. Such NASA experts made the assumption not so long ago, Having analyzed the data of gravitational deviations, registered by GRACE satellites.
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Today, scientists have already determined that the age of the crater is not less than 250 million years old. It turns out that he is older than the world the famous Chiksulub crater, whose formation from impact a huge celestial body is associated with the death of prehistoric fauna on Earth. Moreover, asteroid Wilk is approximately in five times the size of the Chiqsulu crater, he was approximately 50 kilometers in diameter.
Such a giant, says Professor von Frese, was supposed to call the catastrophe on our planet is far greater than the extinction of dinosaurs. And now this huge cosmic body is resting under the Antarctic at a great depth …
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By the way, independent researchers put forward a more bold hypothesis: under the ice of Antarctica is not an asteroid, but giant alien spaceship that back in that distant time, apparently, crashed on our planet, turning it into some time is a real nightmare. Fortunately, then people on Earth have not yet It was. Or were there anyway? We do not know and cannot know about that far time. Now if we could get to that interstellar ship and penetrate into it …
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