New asteroid impacts found on Earth.

Science is not only for scientists and Nobel Prize winners, it is also for normal people who can investigate and discover things, as happened in September to Joel la Point who was collecting data to go camping in the north coast region of Quebec. . In Canada, I was using Google Maps as many people use to see what the place where they have to go is like and how Atlases were used in the past.

Using Google Maps, he discovered a formation that could be the crater, an impact crater left by an ancient asteroid. The structure is about 15 km in diameter and has a peculiar shape around Lake Marsal, which is that mass of water that we are seeing, in Earth impact craters erode rapidly due to the action of water, the movement of tectonic plates, most of the surface of our planet is less than 700 million years old, for that reason we do not see craters everywhere, like It happens on the moon or Mars, but that doesn't mean the Earth wouldn't have received fewer impacts.

In this case, the preliminary analysis states that the crater could have been formed between 38 to 450 million years ago, it is a huge margin, yes, but it is a preliminary analysis, an expedition of geologists will have to be organized to analyze the rocks and make a drilling, drilling is the definitive method to confirm the existence of an impact crater, and a drilling allows you to know the age, the energy released and even collect samples of possible asteroids.

This 15 km diameter era is colossal, it would have meant a large-scale regional destruction, but what we are going to see now is a colossal asteroid that produced a colossal crater, an extinction or an impact at a Planetary level, they call it a meteorite. , but the meteorite is the rock of the asteroid when it is on the ground, but in this case it is brutal, four times the height of Mount Everest, this is an investigation by scientists from Harvard University that they published on October 21 and They have thus revealed what has been a colossal impact

This impact occurred 3.26 billion years ago, at that time the Earth was already a planet with life, there were bacteria and microscopic beings, there were no animals, but it was populated by all these beings that in the end evolved and gave rise to animals and us, The data provided by researchers about the impact is monstrous, the research refers to the impact as crater S2 and they have found geological evidence of this impact in the green rock belt of Barberton Greenstone in South Africa.

They have done a meticulous job of collecting samples, examining samples and various analyzes and have managed to determine that an asteroid four times the size of Mount Everest impacted in that place, the exact estimate is that it was between 40 to 60 km in diameter, it was a flying island. , left a crater 500 km in diameter, by volume it would be 200 times larger than the one that impacted Chixulub in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and whose impact about 66 million years ago put an end to the era of non-avian dinosaurs and Giant reptiles.

The Yucatan crater is about 180 km in diameter, this is much larger, this was a catastrophe on a planetary level, it could have left the planet sterile, it would have been the end point of life on Earth, the question is how we emerged; because researchers have obtained surprising details, details that tell us what and also details that give us clues about how life can evolve on other planets.

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