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Latest news about a contemporary (?) W. Africa crater: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/asteroid-that-eradicated-dinosaurs-not-a-one-off-say-sci
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Latest news about a contemporary (?) W. Africa crater:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/asteroid-that-eradicated-dinosaurs-not-a-one-off-say-scientists https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/asteroid-tha...
Some nice maps and seismic sections in the paper:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn3096 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn3096
It seems possible that the Nadir Crater (9.5N 17W) is 'half way' between Shiva (2.5S? 55E) and Chicxulub (21.5N 90W) with (+12N +72W) step between them - making some wild assumptions about Shiva's location 65m years ago, when India was near the Reunion Hotspot:
https://socratic.org/questions/where-was-india-65-million-years-ago https://socratic.org/questions/where-was-india-65-million-ye...
So one asteroid splitting into 3+ pieces, of different sizes, but roughly the equal separation? Like Shoemaker-Levy 9?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9