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'Fried Egg' may be impact crater
BBC News ^ | Friday, December 18, 2009 | Jonathan Amos

Posted on 12/20/2009 9:37:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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1 posted on 12/20/2009 9:37:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 12/20/2009 9:37:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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3 posted on 12/20/2009 9:38:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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More interesting to me is the fact that scientists say that if the Earth were struck by an object that large, it would wipe out all higher life forms. So how did the higher life forms we have survive that?


4 posted on 12/20/2009 9:43:45 AM PST by Brilliant
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Looks like the fried egg was a straight in impact, if that ‘s what it is.

The smaller egg appears to have been impacted from the right in that picture.


5 posted on 12/20/2009 9:44:00 AM PST by Ole Okie
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Atlantis. No Doubt.


6 posted on 12/20/2009 9:45:29 AM PST by screaminsunshine (!!)
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A lot of big impacts are “doublet”, caused by multiple pieces of a former whole, like the SL-9 comet impacts on Jupiter.


7 posted on 12/20/2009 9:48:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: Brilliant

The sea.

The Eltanin impact about 2 million years ago hit in the Southern Pacific (I think it was the Pacific) near Antarctica. The submerged crater was found during the multi-year International Geophysical Year in the 1950s, and named after the boat that carried the researchers. Subsequently the iridium signature of the impact has been identified.


8 posted on 12/20/2009 9:50:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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Mass populations can’t. But you can find various places on the earth where a society could survive through a bad period, and just continue on.

If you had to pick a realistic threat to society...the impact threat is 99 times more realistic than climate change...yet for every dollar spent on climate change...one cent gets spent on impact and meteor studies.


9 posted on 12/20/2009 9:51:36 AM PST by pepsionice
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It’s in the right place... :’) Shades of Otto Muck!


10 posted on 12/20/2009 9:52:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: Brilliant
Overstated, but supported. From http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-ever-happened-to-the "The fossils show a statistical variation in extinction rates having a period of approximately 26 million years. The two periodic peaks of extinction after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, 65 million years ago, are at the end of the Eocene (roughly 37 million years ago) and in the Middle Miocene (about 17 million years ago).
11 posted on 12/20/2009 9:53:41 AM PST by stormer
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Or more. Here are examples from the moon and Mars...


12 posted on 12/20/2009 9:57:43 AM PST by stormer
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"If you had to pick a realistic threat to society...the impact threat is 99 times more realistic than climate change...yet for every dollar spent on climate change...one cent gets spent on impact and meteor studies."

That's right. It is a mathematical certainty that Earth will again be hit by an asteroid/comet of such size that it will cause near-global level extinction. It's anything but a mathematical certainty that the earth is warming in any significant way do to man.

13 posted on 12/20/2009 10:02:43 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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Interesting... Most of those impacts seem to be missing the central uplift of the “fried egg” (or else it is obscured by dust and debris) - perhaps due to differing substrate materials at the point of impact...


14 posted on 12/20/2009 10:06:26 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Brilliant
So how did the higher life forms we have survive that?

Who says they did? Think of it as a celestial reset button.

15 posted on 12/20/2009 10:06:53 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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“one cent gets spent on impact and meteor studies.”

That much? I would have thought it was much smaller - like .001 cent, concidering the multi-billions spent worldwide on the Great Hoax.


16 posted on 12/20/2009 10:20:58 AM PST by PIF
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“So how did the higher life forms we have survive that?

Who says they did? Think of it as a celestial reset button.”

They left before the impact and haven’t been back since -— Earth is still waiting for a higher life form to evolve/be created.


17 posted on 12/20/2009 10:22:55 AM PST by PIF
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To: SunkenCiv

And the cities are round! Just like the theory says - here are still elephants etc under the domes.


18 posted on 12/20/2009 10:24:09 AM PST by PIF
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To: Zeppo
Interesting observation. Here's an example from Ganymede - the central mounts seem to be evident. I could only speculate as to any of a number of variables. Substrate, energy at impact, and gravity would seem to be the main culprits.


19 posted on 12/20/2009 10:29:28 AM PST by stormer
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To: SunkenCiv

I like mine over easy. Very cool..

the amount of energy involved. wow.

and it could happen again. 8-}


20 posted on 12/20/2009 10:31:40 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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