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A world map that shows where similary platinum spikes have been discovered in the world. The latest discovery is at the Wonderkrater site in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Credit: Francis Thackeray/Wits University

New research supports hypothesis that asteroid contributed to mass extinction

Via Phys.org Wits University A team of scientists from South Africa has discovered evidence partially supporting a hypothesis that Earth was struck by a meteorite or asteroid 12 800 years ago, leading to global consequences including climate change, and contributing to the extinction of many species of large animals at the time of an episode called the Younger Dryas. The […]

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Grimerica #345 – Graham Hancock

Grimerica #345 – Graham Hancock

Interview Starts at 35:10 Via Grimerica.com *Right Click Save As Graham Hancock joins us. He’s played an integral part in changing the mainstream paradigm of ancient mysteries and human history independent researcher and journalist, author of many books including fingerprints of the gods, magicians of the gods, and his latest America Before, the key to earth’s lost civilization. We chat […]

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A NASA glaciologist has discovered a possible second impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland. Credit: NASA Goddard

NASA finds possible second impact crater under Greenland ice – Phys.org

February 11, 2019 by Maria-José Viñas, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Via Phys.org A NASA glaciologist has discovered a possible second impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland. This follows the finding, announced in November 2018, of a 19-mile-wide crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier—the first meteorite impact crater ever discovered under Earth’s ice sheets. Though […]

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An illustration of the ice-filled crater discovered in Greenland. Photograph: Nasa/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/Natural History Museum of Denmark

Impact crater 19 miles wide found beneath Greenland glacier – The Guardian

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. […]

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