Crater From World’s Third Largest Asteroid Found In Australia
After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized
meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine
the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that
flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop
imagining, because scientists say it happened. Scientists
recently discovered the impact zone of a six mile-wide asteroid
that is said to have grudge humped Australia some 300 million
years ago – leaving behind a crater measuring 120 miles wide,
and causing the brutal extermination of nearly all living
things. This finding marks the third largest asterhole ever
uncovered on the planet. Scientists say that the seismic shock
and blazing fireball likely incinerated a large portion of Earth
before emitting greenhouse gasses from the crater that lingered
within the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. However,
this devastation happened long before the existence of
dinosaurs. Researchers say that this di