Via: TheGuardian.com Crater appears to be result of mile-wide iron meteorite just 12,000 years ago A huge impact crater has been discovered under a half-mile-thick Greenland ice sheet. The enormous bowl-shaped dent appears to be the result of a mile-wide iron meteorite slamming into the island at a speed of 12 miles per second as recently as 12,000 years ago. […]

A huge asteroid called 3200 Phaethon is heading towards Earth and it’s named after a Greek god who almost caused the apocalypse Via Metro.co.uk It’s named after an ancient god who nearly wiped out humanity – so you be forgiven for feeling pretty nervous to hear about a gigantic three-mile-wide asteroid that’s set to zoom past Earth in December. A […]

By RYAN O’HARE FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 07:34 EST, 31 August 2016 | UPDATED: 07:36 EST, 31 August 2016 Via: Dailymail.co.uk [Editors note: for comparison, the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Siberia on 2/15/13, was ~17m or ~56 ft in diameter, it exploded with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs.] Earth just had a ‘close shave’ with a 180ft asteroid – […]