#meteorcrater — Public Fediverse posts

Earth's largest meteor crater became home to mysterious ancient carvings, suggesting the catastrophic impact may have transformed into a sacred place for early humans.
#MeteorCrater #AncientMystery #Archaeology #LostHistory #RockArt
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/vredefort-crater-0012142

Amateur Astronomer Discovers 390-Million-Year-Old Meteor Crater in Quebec

📰 Original title: Pit turns out to be 390

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/amateur-astronomer-discovers-390-million-year-old-meteor-crater-in-quebec.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#geology #meteorcrater #geologicaldiscovery #googlemaps

In 2009 I set out on my second US road trip, driving from Houston all the way to Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. Along the way I visited Meteor Crater in Arizona, before reaching California’s granite domes and the cables of Half Dome. From deserts to mountains, this was another step in my photography journey.

#TravelPhotography #LandscapePhotography #RoadTrip #USA #MeteorCrater #Arizona #SierraNevada #Yosemite #HalfDome #NaturePhotography

Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the #MeteorCrater impact at 56 ka: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G53571.1/659552/Grand-Canyon-landslide-dam-and-paleolake-triggered -> Did a meteor impact trigger a landslide in the Grand Canyon? https://news.arizona.edu/news/did-meteor-impact-trigger-landslide-grand-canyon (this is a pretty unusual case in which the scientific paper comes with an affirmative title while the press release about it has one with a question mark).

#Asteroid impact 💥 craters in #OpenStreetMap https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/meteor-craters_94040

Frequency and #risk : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event#Frequency_and_risk

#AsteroidThreat #MeteorCrater #meteorites

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For the past year, I've been collaborating with production designer Alex McDowell and the #JunkConsortium, a network of academic worldbuilders--designers and visionaries imagining a future world built on the detritus of our collapsed society.

This is an example of the geographic #worldbuilding techniques I show to the students--Los Angeles and the Hollywood Hills combined with Arizona's #BarringerCrater.

#MeteorCrater #Cartography

#Forbes 📆 Jul 16, 2023 The #ESA estimates there could be around a million near-earth #asteroids between 30 and 100 meters wide, and 98.9 percent of them remain undiscovered. New #asteroids ☄️ passing this close by #Earth are discovered every week, however #2023NT1 is among the largest seen in the past year. To get a sense of what a direct hit 💥 from an object this size might do, we have to reach back into history a bit, to the Pleistocene epoch 50,000 years ago, when a slightly smaller #asteroid formed the famed #MeteorCrater in #Arizona https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/07/16/hotel-sized-asteroid-undetected-until-two-days-after-close-pass-by-earth/

#AsteroidThreat