Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia 109
An anonymous reader writes "One of the largest meteorite impacts in the world has been discovered in the South Australian outback by geothermal researchers. It may explain one of the many extinction events in the past 600 million years, and may contain rare and exotic minerals. The crater is said to have been 'produced by an asteroid six to 12 km across' — which is really big!"
discovered? (Score:0, Insightful)
Uh... where was it hiding?
Re:discovered? (Score:5, Insightful)
Obviously not in the article.. not even one damn picture of it..
Re:Meh, I've seen bigger... (Score:3, Insightful)
Nobody is saying this is the biggest crater ever created in the solar system.
But, they are saying that anything which creates a crater of that size on Earth is going to make one hell of a mess. From TFA:
In this case, "big" is relative. And, me, I'd call this pretty damned big in terms of what it actually signifies.
You can niggle over the fact that Titan has a bigger crater if you like. Me, I wouldn't want to be around when something like this happened. Have you gotten so jaded with this stuff as to lose track of what it actually means?