The hypothesis that dinosaurs disappeared as a result of an asteroid impact has found new confirmation. But scientists now believe there is not one but two asteroids Daily Mail.
Scientists from Heriot Watt University have found evidence that a second destructive space rock hit the Earth at the same time, approximately 66 million years ago. It was about 500 meters in diameter and crashed into the crust near the modern coast of the Republic of Guinea in West Africa.
The first evidence of its existence was discovered in 2022, and now researchers have received new high-resolution 3D seismic images of a depression approximately nine kilometers deep, confirming their suspicions.
Dr. According to Wisdin Nicholson, the asteroid came from the northeast at an angle of 20 to 40 degrees. The fall speed is estimated to be 72,000 km/h.
On October 1, American scientists was discovered Ancient seabed located more than 400 kilometers below the Earth’s surface. It is assumed that compression of the mantle occurs as a result of subduction, which is the process of one tectonic plate sinking beneath another.
Earlier astronomers removed Rumors of a “second moon” approaching Earth.