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- jofer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Well, there was an earlier thread, but this one seems to be getting more diggs, so I'll repost my comment here, if no one minds too terribly...
Whether or not the link to the end-Permian extinction plays out, this is neat just because it's one of the first studies to use data from the GRACE satellite system, which (finally) gives us a way to measure gravity anomalies over land from space. The satellite system is pretty damn neat... The variation in the acceleration due to gravity is measured by precisely measureing the distance between two satellites... It's rather impressive technological feat, in my mind, anyway. At any rate, findings like this are just a taste of what may come out of this data set...
I have to admit, though a 300 mile wide crater is _damned_ impressive! Still, the Permian-Triassic extinction has long been used as an example of long-tem processes causing a mass extinction, so it will be interesting to see how the timing works out on this one.
The fact of the matter is that it's "rather hard" to get at the actual geology in the area, so even though this is really, really exciting work, it will take a long time (and actual hard-rock geology) before it gains widespread acceptance. At any rate, ...well... imagine an impact large enough to leave a 300 mile crater! If it turns out to be true, and the timing matches, no one will argue too much that it played a damn significant role in the end-Permian extinction.
I'm more a little skeptical about the statements that it may have instigated the breakup of Gonwonda... Helped it along, certainly, but the conditions would have have to have been right to begin with. I'll just have to wait for the actual papers to be published, to see what they have to say, I guess... At any rate, the thought that an impact could break apart a continent is damned interesting, to say the least!
Anyway, enough rambling... - szelij, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Can't believe i haven't noticed this reply to feature before. In any case, i don't know about the impact being the catalyst in the breakup of the super-continent but mass extinction events happens periodically in the planet's history.
The impact 250 million years ago caused a massive extinction event and no doubt in the future there will be more. The solar system moves in a sea-saw orbit/motion (If i remember correctly) and it passes though a region littered with the carcasses of the formation of the galaxy(asteroids and the likes) so periodically these asteroids gets attracted into the centre of our solar system and usually it slams into Jupiter and the other gas giants due to their immense gravity.
But sometimes a few escapes and some crashed onto Earth and triggers an extinction event. I think we're heading for one since a few million years ago we just passed through the asteroids and in the coming aeons these asteroids should be approaching the inner planets.
The question here first and foremost is; will the human race prosper fast enough to escape a catastrophic extinction event or will it go the way of the dinosaurs and die before it can really stretch its wings.
I for one think we'll kill ourselves off and the planet's ecosystem before any asteroid kills us... - dziban303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hey: Upon further research on this topic, I found a link to an abstract published in the Journal of Geophysical Research dated 10 September 1979, titled "No giant meteorite crater in Wilkes Land, Antarctica."
"Schmidt (1962) suggested that a large gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, Antarctica, was caused by the impact of a huge meteorite and that the impact was also the australite source predicted by Barnes (1961). His suggestion was recently revived by Weihaupt (1976). However, Weihaupt's analysis does not stand up to critical examination, and Schmidt's (1962) arguments have been negated by the subsequent discovery of much higher subglacial relief than was previously realized. Recent definitive airborne radio-echo sounding that shows no evidence for the supposed crater has effectively disproved the hypothesis."
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979JGR....84.5681B - vegasbright, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is big news for Geo geeks like myself. If they can give good evidence for what caused the Permian extinction then thats a possible Nobel right there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8it's the first impact!
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I found a video of the impact: http://www.ezprezzo.com/videoclips/meteor_impact_animation.html
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7"I for one think we'll kill ourselves off and the planet's ecosystem before any asteroid kills us..."
I agree with the first point but not the second. It's conceited to beleive humans can destroy Earth's ecosystem on our own. Even in the event of a global nuclear war, most complex life would return within a few hundred million years. Lots of microorganisms wouldn't care about a nuclear war - neither would those vent dwellers at the bottom of the sea. Hell, it'll take the Sun's expansion to finally kill off all life on Earth.
You've got to respect the tenacity of Mother Nature, and the insignificance of one specifies in the grand scheme of things. - fjoggen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"So now we know how the earth reversed polarity... That great big blast just shoved it over to the other end of the earth."
The shifting of earths magnetic field is something which happen on a regular basis and have nothing to do with asteroids crashing into mother earth, at least not in theory.
We believe that when earths magnetic field weakens the balance of the systems is destroyed and we get "hot spots" with magnetic fields around the globe. This "hot spots" will create disturbance in the magnetic filed and create locale magnetic north and south poles. (For those familiar with a Japanese manga called One Piece, it could be compared the the Grand Line, but then again not....) This locale North or south poles is what in the long run will allow the magnetic filed to revert.
In geology we use this events to for example determine the age of a bedrock and similar. - jamesmorad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3its only a matter of time before the second impact and NERV takes over.....
better learn how to use your AT fields... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The term "Big Bang" refers to the theory of the beginning of the universe, not the mass extinction during the Permian-Triassic period. Just thought I'd point that out.
- Drizzit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just love how anything that disagrees with the chuch is the work of the debbil.
- Drizzit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now that's just cool. However, I think something on that scale (Moon sized from the looks of it) would probably blow the planet to peices.
- ZerozenOnes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is one cool video man, worth a digg in itself. Suddenly I don't think hurricanes are all that scary anymore...
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That's not true. My priest told me so. And he speaks to god, directly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Well, there have been 4 or 5 Massive extension events in the few billion years the planet's been here.
- msafi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Does it contain evidence of extraterrestrial life? Are you sure it was not artificially made by the National Reconnaissance Office to deceive NASA?
- gadgetuk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Yeah, goddam Mother Nature. Think's she's so smart, i'm going to stick a tank of super in my Hummer and run the sucker all day long - that'll learn her.
- floejoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ok, this makes no sense, the Earth is 6000 years old by all biblical accounts, I don't know where these "scientists" get their information but it sure is not the Bible, so they must not be christians. And can we really trust an east-coast liberal scientists with a gay agenda if they are not Christians? I think not.
Next thing you know they will be telling us life may have possibly hitched a ride on one of these meteors.
The Earth was intelligently designed with craters so to throw off all non-believers on a path away from God. It only makes sense, people. - september, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's exactly what I thought when i first read this. First Impact, anyone?
- shelby1076, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Its AvP all over again
- RevLoki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Uhhh... praise jeebus?
- psychorhino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1...At the very center of the crater, scientists found the remains of a mysterious ancient being. Tentatively named "Jenovah," scientists are puzzled by the creature's size and physical attributes. "We hope to uncover more answers about 'Jenovah' and its relationship to the meteor crash," says lead scientist Dr. Gast.
- Norante, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Second Impact. Where did they take Adam? :o
- tolbs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Man, haven't laughed that hard for a long while.
- Mahlke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Trivia: Also used as the set for the Director's Cut of Deep Impact alternate ending. The removal of ice from a 30 sqare miles area contributed to the movie's 3 billion dollars production costs.
- julesp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Mother Nature? Tenacity?
- EvanWest, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1For those of you who didn't know, this is where Alien VS. Predator was filmed.
- rdot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2So now we know how the earth reversed polarity... That great big blast just shoved it over to the other end of the earth.
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