[blam]

There's a good, quick video at the site.

[blam]

Catastrophism Ping.

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Is that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?

[SunkenCiv]

Red Planet’s Ancient Equator Located
Scientific American (online) | April 20, 2005 | Sarah Graham
Posted on 04/24/2005 8:18:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1390424/posts

New Theory: Catastrophe Created Mars’ Moons
space.com | 29 Jul 03 | Leonard David
Posted on 07/29/2003 8:56:47 AM PDT by RightWhale
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/954539/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam. Two earlier, related topics posted above.

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[RightWhale]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/news/mro-20080625.html
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Andrews-Hanna and co-authors Maria Zuber of MIT and Bruce Banerdt of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., report the new findings in the journal Nature this week. A giant northern basin that covers about 40 percent of Mars’ surface, sometimes called the Borealis basin, is the remains of a colossal impact early in the solar system’s formation, the new analysis suggests. At 5,300 miles across, it is about four times wider than the next-biggest impact basin known, the Hellas basin on southern Mars. An accompanying report calculates that the impacting object that produced the Borealis basin must have been about 1,200 miles across.
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http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Giant_Impact_Explains_Mars_Dichotomy_999.html
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“It’s a very old idea, but nobody had done the numerical calculations to see what would happen when a big asteroid hits Mars,” said Francis Nimmo, associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC and first author of one of the papers.
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Van Flandern has been talking about this for decades. Hoagland, for a decade. Earth has a feature suspiciously like this, just about the size of the moon.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Just in case...