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BIZARRE! Diamond-laden town built inside an asteroid CRASH site in this country

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BIZARRE! Diamond-laden town built inside an asteroid CRASH site in this country

[ad_1] The Earth is filled with bewildering places and structures and in most cases they are either built naturally by forces within the Earth or by humans. However, there is one place on Earth that ranks among the most unique places on the planet, yet the credit does not go either to humans or the planet itself. Nordlingen is a small town in Bavaria, Germany which may not appear out-of-the-ordinary, but it is much frequented by NASA and ESA astronomers. Why? It's because the entire town is built on an asteroid crash site. Yes, as an asteroid strike actually happened there! But that's not all. Surprisingly, the stones used to construct most of the structures in the town are filled with diamonds, thanks to the asteroid.It turns out that 15 million years ago, a massive one-kilometer-wide ...

This asteroid news from NASA will terrify you! It is quite SERIOUS

[ad_1] On its official website, NASA mentions that the chances of an asteroid large enough to cause a global catastrophe (about one kilometer in width) striking the Earth is once every 100,000 years on average. However, a NASA chief scientist has put serious doubts about that asteroid strike claim after revealing that there could be a big miscalculation in estimating both the number of large asteroids hitting our planet as well as how devastating these blows were. As different space agencies build different asteroid defense mechanisms to protect us from future threats, there might be less time than we realize.According to a report by Science.org, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center chief scientist, James Garvin, revealed during his presentation at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Co...

At HORRIFIC 280 metres, Asteroid Vredefort, which formed Earth’s largest crater, was HUGE

[ad_1] The impactor (most likely an asteroid) that formed the Vredefort crater is much larger than previously believed. Researchers developed a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth's largest crater Vredefort crater nearly two billion years ago. They found the impactor (most likely an asteroid) that formed the Vredefort crater is much larger than previously believed. But according to new research from the University of Rochester, the impactor may have been much bigger and would have had devastating consequences across the planet. This research, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, provides a more accurate understanding of the large impact and will allow researchers to better simulate impac...