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MOVE over the Big Pineapple and the Big Banana, Australia is now the proud owner of the world’s biggest asteroid impact zone. We have the Big Pineapple, the Big Banana, the Big Prawn and the Big ...
Geophysical evidence suggests there is a massive, magnetized structure deep beneath Australia ... based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research – is the world’s largest ...
Scientists have discovered a 400 km-wide impact zone from a huge meteorite in central Australia which is the largest asteroid impact zone ever found on Earth. A team led by Andrew Glikson from the ...
In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe – based on many years of experience in asteroid ... impact structure.
The record for the largest known asteroid crater on Earth is currently held by the Vredefort impact structure in ... the University of New South Wales in Australia. Scientists, including the ...
Scientists have uncovered traces of what they think could be the world's largest asteroid impact. The structure, hidden in the ground in Australia, is thought to be about 300 miles across.
Researchers believe they’ve discovered the world’s largest asteroid impact crater in New South Wales, Australia ... a central low magnetic zone corresponding to deep deformation above the ...
Scars thought to have been caused by a twin impact at least 300 million years ago were detect­­ed 3km underground in the Warburton Basin, which straddles the South Australia-Northern Territory ...
The sheer power of an asteroid impact that gouged ... A satellite image of the Amelia Creek impact structure in the Davenport Range, in Australia's Northern Territory. A satellite image of the ...
While the strip is large, the asteroid is only expected to be powerful enough to create a 50 kilometre (30 mile) blast zone. The increase in odds of this impact, slight as it is, will alarm people ...
The world’s largest asteroid impact structure could be buried deep in southern New South Wales in Australia, scientists suspect. The record for the largest known asteroid crater on Earth is ...