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I’m torn. Do I upvote or ǝʇoʌdn this?
˙ʇɹɐǝɥ ɹnoʎ ɥʇᴉʍ oפ
Take that flat earthers
Does anyone know where I can visit the crater of a soft impact meteorite?
this also implies the existence of a large dent in the earth’s core and mantle… hmm
Now do chicxulub and the Andes.
You joke, but meteorite impacts causing large igneous provinces on the opposite side of the planet might actually be a thing.
(Uluru and Meteor Crater are provably not an example of this, though, for several reasons: they aren’t antipodes of each other, Uluru is five orders of magnitude older, and the phenomenon I mentioned would’ve been caused by way, way bigger impacts.)
Do they have to be antipodal? If we imagine a clock face overlaid over an image of the earth, if a meteorite strikes vertically (i.e. parallel to the 12-6 line) at 11, could it result in a bulge at 7?
I just find it remarkably lucky that the Arizona meteorite missed the visitor centre by just a few feet.