Gold miners discover a three-mile-wide meteorite formed 100 million years ago in the outback of Australia
- A meteorite has been found in the outback of Western Australia
- The crater spread across three miles and formed 100 million years ago
- The team found shoot angles at the site, which is a sign of a meteorite
- They are formed from the high pressure and high velocity shock waves produced by a large impact object.
Gold miners stumble upon a major meteorite in the outback of Western Australia, which was created about 100 million years ago.
Using electromagnetic surveys, the researchers were able to create images of an impact site called the Ora Banda crater below the surface to determine if it extends across three miles.
Shoot angles were found from the Earth formed by high pressure and high velocity shock waves – ‘tell-tale signs of the impact of a meteorite.’
Ancient vegetation was also found from the remains, which will be further analyzed in microscopic pollen to collect a more accurate date of time when the hole was filled.
Gold miners stumble upon a major meteorite in the outback of Western Australia, which was created about 100 million years ago. Using electromagnetic surveys, the researchers were able to create images of the impact site beneath the surface across three miles.
The miners were working near the historic Goldfield mining town of Ora Banda on the north-western side of the Kalgurli-Boulder.
Geologist and geophysicist Dr. Jason Meyers said: ‘The Ora Banda crater was a gift.’
‘Geologists working on it were digging holes for gold and they found some unusual rocks.’
‘It was in the back of their minds that they didn’t really agree with anything else they saw and they thought it was the result of a meteorite.’
Shoot angles recovered from the site, which produce a large impact object from high pressure and high velocity shock waves – ‘tell-tell signs of a meteorite impact’
The miners worked near the historic Goldfields mining town of Ora Banda on the northwest side of the Kalgurli-Boulder.
He said ABC It ‘estimates that it is about 100 million years old, based on its location and the rate of erosion and some of the soil that fills the sides.’
The team found the remains along with the ancient vegetation, analyzed by palette oncologists and searched for microscopic pollen.
Curtin assists University Meyers, and searches glass drops with zircon and other minerals cemented in the shoot corners to determine the exact date when the impact occurred.
The team estimates that the crater is 100 million years old, but said it happened between 250 million and 40 million years ago.
Light may be emitted when zircon and other materials deep in the hole evaporate and re-crystallize. resource.ly Reports.
“The energy emitted during the impact of the asteroid will be greater than the combined energy from all the atomic tests conducted so far,” Meyer told Resource.li.
Curtin assists University Meyers, and searches for glass droplets with zircon and other minerals cemented in the shoot corners and determines the exact date when the impact occurred.
Ancient vegetation was also found from the remains, which will be further analyzed in microscopic pollen to collect a more accurate date of the time the hole was filled.
Or Banda Crater is five times larger than the famous Wolf Creek Crater in Australia. Wolf Creek was formed by a meteorite believed to have crashed into the Earth 300,000 years ago
If the crater had been hit during the Cretaceous, it would not have been affected by the dinosaur era, it would have been hit by an asteroid that left an impact crater 90 miles across the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico about 66 million years ago.
Or Bunda Crater is five times larger than the famous Wolf Creek Crater in Australia.
Wolf Creek was formed by a meteorite believed to have crashed into the Earth 300,000 years ago.
The meteorite remains a huge hole 2,890 feet visible on the surface.
It was believed to be the second largest crater in the world.
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