March 9th 06, 06:46 PM
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Maybe Darla took a dump [ Huge Crater Found in Egypt
On 9 Mar 2006 09:37:45 -0800, "Raving Loonie"
wrote:
Why is the story; listed below; largely ignored. ... I would have
thought that it was a ' big deal' ????
I don't see any "pushing" of this news, vis a vis, the regular internet
channels ...
Puzzled,
RL
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" Scientists have discovered a huge crater in the Saharan desert, the
largest one ever found there.
The crater is about 19 miles (31 kilometers) wide, more than twice as
big as the next largest Saharan crater known. It utterly dwarfs Meteor
Crater in Arizona, which is about three-fourths of a mile (1.2
kilometers) in diameter.
In fact, the newfound crater, in Egypt, was likely carved by a space
rock that was itself roughly 0.75 miles wide in an event that would
have been quite a shock, destroying everything for hundreds of miles.
For comparison, the Chicxulub crater left by a dinosaur-killing
asteroid 65 million years ago is estimated to be 100 to 150 miles (160
to 240 kilometers) wide.
The crater was discovered in satellite images by Boston University
researchers Farouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim.
El-Baz named the crater "Kebira," which means "large" in Arabic
and also relates to its location on the northern tip of the Gilf Kebir
region in southwestern Egypt.
"Kebira may have escaped recognition because it is so large," equal
to the "expanse of the Cairo urban region from its airport in the
northeast to the Pyramids of Giza in the southwest," El-Baz said
today. "Also, the search for craters typically concentrates on small
features, especially those that can be identified on the ground. The
advantage of a view from space is that it allows us to see regional
patterns and the big picture." ...
See http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ig_crater.html for
source and more ...
Maybe Darla took a dump.
Jade
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