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According to the Daily Mail, a group of international scientists completed an examination of the crater, which is under the ice Greenland. Immediately specify that his study began back in 1997 year, however, only radar sounding of recent years allowed to establish the final dimensions of this “space fault “at a depth of approximately 1000 meters, like much another.
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That’s what Dr. John Paden of Kansas says about it University (USA) participating in this study:
Today we can say with accuracy that the crater under the thickness of the Hiawatha glacier is the largest ever left on our planet with meteorites (from 25 such formations). Also, it is the best preserved in its originality – glaciers after all. Its width is more than 30 kilometers. Meteorite itself was diameter of a kilometer or even a half. This disaster happened. here from about 3 million to 12 thousand years ago – more precisely it is not yet possible to determine. Cosmic body impact on the surface The earth turned out to be so strong that within a radius of a hundred kilometers here all life was destroyed, and the fragments of the meteorite reached the coast modern Canada.
Unfortunately, scientists say, we are not safe from falling to Earth something similar in mass and destructive power, and at the same time time, it is quite possible that something can fly from space and more serious …
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