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The possible impact site is located at the edge of the Bellingshausen Sea (part of the Southern Ocean). The Eltanin impact is thought to be an asteroid impact in the eastern part of the South Pacific Ocean that occurred around the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary approximately 2.51 ± 0.07 million years ago. [1]
Some scholars have argued that an impact event in an ocean or sea may create a megatsunami, which can cause destruction both at sea and on land along the coast, [42] but this is disputed. [43] The Eltanin impact into the Pacific Ocean 2.5 Mya is thought to involve an object about 1 to 4 kilometres (0.62 to 2.49 mi) across but remains craterless.
Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, US; Impact Meteor Crater Viewer Google Maps Page with Locations of Meteor Craters around the world; Impact Craters at Lunar and Planetary Institute
An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. The world was given only seven hours warning that it was being approached by ...
According to the university, Herd went to the crash site and measured a 2-square-centimeter (less than a square inch) divot in the walkway that was formed by the meteorite’s impact.
There are several lists of meteorite impacts of various types available: Category:Lists of impact craters contains lists on various planets, including Earth by continent; Meteorite falls are observed; Meteorite finds are rocks found on the ground which are geologically identified as meteorites; Meteorite contains lists of the most notable of ...
The meteorite struck Earth when it was still in its early years, a water world with only a few continents sticking out of the sea. In their fieldwork, Drabon said, they were looking for spherule ...
The Eltanin impact has been confirmed (via an iridium anomaly and meteoritic material from ocean cores) but, as it fell into the Pacific Ocean, apparently no crater was formed. The age of Silverpit and the confirmed Boltysh crater (65.17 ± 0.64 Ma), as well as their latitude , has led to the speculative hypothesis that there may have been ...