Roter Kamm crater is one of the most prominent impact features in the region. South Africa tends to have a larger number of impact craters (to the south) than Namibia as much of the country exists on 2.5-3.6 billion year old rock.
IF there are no fragments of the projectile to be found, that would tend to corroborate your theory. Have any core sample been taken around the periphery? There were small (and a few not so small remains recovered from Barringer).
At like 3 minutes into your video move that red circle like an inch to the right or so so it covers 2/3 of Madagascar and then look at it! You'll see what I see immediately if you do this. Also do you know there's a bunch of videos about all the cool rare plants in South Africa and Namibia where you can clearly see rock formations that you talk about in your videos and TH-camrs are like touching them while talking about some plant or something. You should check them out!
@@lestergillis8171 Yea it looks to be a quick fix to a recurring problem relying on old outdated science theories with no empirical evidence. Just like 1900 scientist believed in alien life making cannels on mars.
Thanks for covering this ... the Namib desert is amongst the oldest on the planet, fascinating place.... and up north is the largest iron meteorite, the Hoba, 60 000 kg still where it fell.
Wikipedia says the name is German and translates as such to Red Ridge. Makes sense since Germany had colonial rule over that area from 1884-1915. I would imagine it was named by the Germans at some point, but it could have been named by the researchers who first theorized its origins. I’ve spent half an hour trying to find out who named it and it’s proved… difficult.
Used to be called German west Africa and there are still people in Namibia who speak German. Pretty sure it’s taught in schools too as a standard lesson.
Cool. I live in Luderitz which is on the coast just northwest of the Crater. It being 2.5 kilometers across the impactor would have either being a 250 meter comet or 100 meter iron/nickel asteroid. A while back I used this one asteroid impact simulator to calculate the possible size of the object. If it was a comet then it would have been about 250 meters across. If it was an asteroid then it would have been about 85 to 100 meters across. The size depends on the incoming speed and angle of the object.
I’m a neighbor to your south. I would like to see this when I visit Luderitz at some stage. You explanation makes sense. I wonder if geologists have dug into the crater to try locate traces of iron or nickel.
@@springbok4015 Probably not since any fragments would be widely scattered across the landscape, and buried under tens of meters of sand. With asteroids and comets, the Crater they form is usually 10 to 20 times the size of the object. It also depends on what it's made of, density, the angle it comes in, the speed and where it lands.
Did you take into account the velocity based on where it presumably originated in the solar system? The model you used seems quite sound. In my models I often look at the inferred composition, and see where it made the most sense to originate from in the solar system.
@@springbok4015 of course, permission would be needed for this. However it is of scientific interest to determine what the impactor was. I doubt that a solid piece will be found (but then again I’ve seen weirder stories where iron-nickel fragments get pulled out of craters). There could be hundreds of fragments buried beneath all of the sand and we would not know without a thorough survey
@@GeologyHub Yeah. The program I used is called the Earth Impact Effects Program. It was designed by Robert Marcus, H. Jay Melosh and Gareth Collins. It gives a number off effects. You can put in the distance, what the composition or density it is, the speed, the angle, whether it lands in water, sedimentary or igneous rock.
No everyone, it didn't form a sheet of glass from silicas in the sands back then because there wasn't a desert there! It was a sedimentary rock area with gneiss underneath. So very rocky and old like 3 billion years at least. GH is right about the age of the impact being millions of years ago. The sands came later and the winds piled up the sand inside the circular depression over the time as the sands took over. It is far deeper , at 330 feet deep and 3/4 a mile in diameter.
Hi GeologyHub . Please make a doc on the Kalahari desert in Botswana and the impact crater that formed it. As a novice Im not sure if it is true but I heard that the Kalahari in Botswana is actually a massive crater going up to 3000 ft deep in its centre and over tens of millions of years , filled up with sand from rivers and swamps and is now flat. A farmer friend of mine living in the Kalahari drilled his borehole 3000 ft deep before he hit the rock at the bottom of the now sand filled crater ( about 300 miles diameter ) and once through that rock layer, the water was reached. Due to it being filled with sand and so deep , it absorbs all rainfall and thus there are no rivers and the plants in that area are all water wise plants , tubulers , baobabs , aloes , melons , bulbs etc. Also very fascinating.
Do the Popigai crater in Russia! There are a few good ones in Russia. I bet you can spot one on the map in Eastern Russia if ya'll know what you ate looking at (maybe two or 3). A fun challenge ^_^
Have you covered Crater Mountain before? Next to Kings Canyon National park in California, i saw it on google earth, and looks like quiet a big ancient volcano complex?
I have flown over that crater a few times enroute from Windhoek to Cape Town and the pilot usually tells us about it , only , that it is not an impact crater but a geyser type of geological explosion from very deep that happened as a once off incident. Perhaps due to the fact that originally the Namib desert was about 4000 ft above sea level and has eroded since to 1500 ft , thus with less resistance and as a result allowing the high pressure hot spot to explode. There are geo faults in that area. About 35 miles from that crater is Ai-ais at the lower end of the Fish River Canyon , comparable to the Grand Canyon. Ai-Ais is a resort and has hot water springs too . So that crater and the springs must be from the same fault line. Not far from it is also a massive meteorite that hit circa 1902 . It is about 98 % iron and is lying exposed . I estimated it at 100 tons but dont know how deep it goes into the ground. Its top is about 2ft above the ground. There are many more fascinating geo features in that desert . Ive been through it about 14 times.
Good analysis... yes comets would have different impact characteristics. Comets being mostly frozen gas, would break up in upper atmosphere and surviving fragments impacting would not leave normal solid debris. I made an observation about the impacts near Great Lakes being comets or comet fragments like Jupiter's multiple impact event. It was the start of the YD period. Large pieces Ice Sheet were blasted in ballistic arc and was responsible for the Carolina Bays. You can imagine geologists looking for asteroid impact debris at ground zero of Tungusta event. No smoking gun because it was a gaseous comet. Everything evaporated post impact.
Hi GeologyHub. Thank you for the latest video. Very interesting hypothesis. I came across a circular landmark that could be an impact crater in Algeria but haven't been able to track down any info on it. Here are the coordinates if you'd like to take a look: 25°51'15.7"N 0°35'03.6"E
I'd agree with you a smaller liquid and gas mainly object hitting land has airburst potential greater than it's kinetic mass and density would suggest. Maybe this impact also spread wildfires further too contributing to the formation of the desert by creating a large vaporization of life and vegetation in the area!
This paper says there was limited impact melt, less than expected for the size: "Geophysical profile of the Roter Kamm impact crater, Namibia" JAN 27, 1998. "In addition, the scarcity of impact melt and suevite (Reimold et al., 1997) fragments found so far at the surface, despite a number of detailed geological rim traverses, could also be interpreted to indicate that only a limited amount of impact melt was produced in the Roter Kamm impact event." DOI:10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01649.x
There's one in Libya I found looking at Google Earth when the US attacked. It's pretty visible if you zoom in far enough, and look where nothing else would be.
Asteroid impact, 300km~500 km in diameter Impact crater equal to the diameter of the moon ----> 3,500km Location ----> Congo River circular (inner impact ring) Nigeria -------- Victoria Falls (outer impact ring)
So I'm not educated in the particular sciences to know, this isn't a criticism... But what led you to determine it was a comet rather than an asteroid? What are the signs to look for there? Love your videos by the way, if college wasn't needless expensive you've almost convinced me to study geology.
Don't know if this is of any interest to you, but would like info on how the Great Lakes formed, thanks. There is evidence the Lakes are getting about an inch shallower every year.
"During the last ice age, the mile-thick Laurentide ice sheet covered most of Canada and the northern contiguous United States. The massive weight and movement of this glacier gouged out the earth to form the lake basins. About 20,000 years ago, the climate warmed and the ice sheet retreated."
Something hit south of Egypt maybe 20 million years ago leaving a patch of green glass on the surface. Much later(obviously), this glass was made into jewelry for the Pharaohs. How did that one form?
Very thought provoking. Wouldn't an atmospheric comet breakup tend to lead to numerous smaller impactors hitting shotgun style, rather than a single deep impactor?
@@DrewNorthup Perhaps only pedantic differences, but differences none the less. For example: A multiple impact even in a fairly narrow area will still leave a wider, shallower crater with a more random (less than circular) crater rim. It would also tend to suppress the formation of the central peak. It's also suggests another possibility that there may be smaller craters nearby that have eroded or filled in with desert sand, if it was an only slightly broken up anything. Perhaps the only remaining evidence to us is the core impact. Knowledge is like a hydra. 1 answer leads to 10 questions. The trick usually is finding the right question.
Aircraft and the middle of nowhere, cool. And of course the crater, wonder how far to water or a road. I'm good with a comet, I still think something fast started the Hawaiian islands chain, punched a hole right through the Pacific Plate.
I can understand coming up with different measurements for the type of interstellar object that created the crater but how the hell are you able to determine where that object originated from the solar system?
By the erosion of the crater and by looking at things like geochemical alteration and faulting that imprint over each other, if one is imprinted over or cutting through another then you can confidentally say which one had to be there first, then if you can age date one or more features you can make fair assumptions about others based on their physical relationship to each other.
There is a large possible impact crater near camp Verde no one seems to know about if interested I will send you Directions it’s more filled in been there twice looks just like Barringer crater but smaller same up turned rocks impact silt ect.
It seems likely, that traveling in excess of 51Km/second that a small comet would not have made it to the earths surface. Instead, traveling at that speed, hitting the earths atmosphere, it would have detonated at some elevation above the ground. eg Tunguska.
You could do a calculation involving the heat load arriving on the surface of the asteroid. It would it be a large power of 10 in Watts. You need to know quantities like the conductivity of rock, also the total pressure on the leading part of the asteroid (order of air density x velocity^2 due to density of atmosphere), also the energy of the arriving air molecules per unit area per unit time, likely order of air density x velocity^3. I suspect that the leading side of the asteroid would be vaporised, layer by layer, more quickly than heat could conduct to the interior (since heat conduction is a slower process). That probably means that the conductivity of the asteroid is not important.
The amount of energy required to make a crater of a given size is appropriately equal to the mass of the object that created the crater multiplied by its velocity, we know roughly how fast most meteors fall to earth so from that we can calculate its approximate mass, and then because we know the density (rock) we can calculate its volume.
Love your channel. I have asked this question before and was discouraged by an "expert". Going to try again. Have you noticed how the deepest earthquakes in the world are unusually clustered at 180 degrees?
How can you suggest that it was a comet fragment as opposed to some other type of meteorite? You haven't cited anything besides circumstantial evidence and admitted that hardly any evidence exists.
"It contrasts with the accepted theory...which doesn't in my opinion withstand a basic eyeball test and seems off." That's the kind of reasoning I'd expect from a Flat Earther or Creationist.
It's an explosion at the impact site, which has circular symmetry. The majority of craters on the Moon are also circular, in spite of the fact that the impact directions must have been spread over all possible angles. It takes an oblique impact within about 10 degrees of the horizontal to generate an extended crater. Many of the lunar craters have asymmetric ejecta blankets indicating an oblique impact, but the craters themselves are still circular.
EDM - Electrical Discharge Machining Many craters tend to be almost perfectly spherical. Impact craters very rarely achieve this symmetry. Furthermore, if we look at the craters on the moon, for example, why do the vast majority of impacts appear to have been created by something emanating from directly above, and not at randomn angles as you might expect from projectiles moving through space? . Some of the craters exhibit internal spiral patterns. Impact craters don't do this. . Crater chains often appear in straight lines. The chances of this happening are close to zero. . Channels begin and end out of nowhere. . Channels tend to be predominantly flat floored, ending with steep walls. . Channels often criss-cross, ignoring pre-existing channels. Liquids don't do this. . Channels often run up hill. Again, liquids don't tend to do this. . Many planetary rilles run for thousands of miles in almost straight lines or wave like patterns. . Missing debris. Assuming some of the features are produced by traditional methods, where did the material that has been removed go to? Most of these electrical features are reproducible in the lab. Sometimes these features are explained away as lava flows, or collapsed lave tubes, even where there is little evidence for any other volcanic activity. Wind and water may also be cited, but typically the planets concerned are supposed to be dry, or at least have been for many millions of years. It is also interesting to note that many meteorites hit the earth without producing craters, and that we find many craters with no evidence of any impact!
There are many reasons why craters can have different shapes, it depends on the angle in which they hit the atmosphere and then the planet. Also the moon doesn't have an atmosphere to speak of to cause any deflection or wear down the craters over time due to rain and such. And there are plenty of meteors that simply explode before they actually impact like the one in Siberia and we recently saw again on a smaller scale. more loosely held together asteroids could easily break apart and turn into multiple impactors which would indeed cause straight lines of craters because they won't just suddenly go off in random directions.
@@TheDanEdwards Valles Marineris in the Laboratory? th-cam.com/video/dSRLb85UAEA/w-d-xo.html You do know plasma is highly electrical and has 3 modes dark, glow and arc discharge? Have you notice the search for dark matter and dark energy has failed. Over one hundred research papers and no joy. Have you notice Fusion power research has failed after over 80 years of research. How does our Sun work? Look at all the unsolved problems Astrophysics and Particle Physics and you could call it pseudoscience lacking empirical evidence. Industrial manufacturing does use EDM so its not quackery. Gravity is a weak force compared to Electromagnetism.
@@SilvaDreams " more loosely held together asteroids could easily break apart and turn into multiple impactors which would indeed cause straight lines of craters because they won't just suddenly go off in random directions. " Has any one observed what you think or is a wild guess lacking empirical evidence . Remember when volcanoes with lava flows was the answer for many of the features just like asteroids and meteor were dusty snow balls. Oh and don't forget 1901 scientist believed alien's were on mars building cannels.
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Roter Kamm crater is one of the most prominent impact features in the region. South Africa tends to have a larger number of impact craters (to the south) than Namibia as much of the country exists on 2.5-3.6 billion year old rock.
IF there are no fragments of the projectile to be found, that would tend to corroborate your theory.
Have any core sample been taken around the periphery?
There were small (and a few not so small remains recovered from Barringer).
You should check out Palaborwa, its an extinct volcano that blew itself up in SA. Now hosts unique fauna and flora but awesome to see from sat view
Correction. Its Pilanesberg not Palaborwa
At like 3 minutes into your video move that red circle like an inch to the right or so so it covers 2/3 of Madagascar and then look at it! You'll see what I see immediately if you do this. Also do you know there's a bunch of videos about all the cool rare plants in South Africa and Namibia where you can clearly see rock formations that you talk about in your videos and TH-camrs are like touching them while talking about some plant or something. You should check them out!
@@lestergillis8171 Yea it looks to be a quick fix to a recurring problem relying on old outdated science theories with no empirical evidence. Just like 1900 scientist believed in alien life making cannels on mars.
Thanks for covering this ... the Namib desert is amongst the oldest on the planet, fascinating place.... and up north is the largest iron meteorite, the Hoba, 60 000 kg still where it fell.
I also greatly enjoy the local species of lovebird in the desert :). We have introduced flocks of them in Arizona
@@GeologyHub .. I suppose they were introduced for hunting season licences in a few decades when their numbers get too high.
"Roter Kamm" sounds german and can be translated to "Red Ridge", which would be fitting judging by the images.
Wikipedia says the name is German and translates as such to Red Ridge. Makes sense since Germany had colonial rule over that area from 1884-1915. I would imagine it was named by the Germans at some point, but it could have been named by the researchers who first theorized its origins. I’ve spent half an hour trying to find out who named it and it’s proved… difficult.
Yeah Namibia was originally German Southwest Africa
Used to be called German west Africa and there are still people in Namibia who speak German. Pretty sure it’s taught in schools too as a standard lesson.
Thank you
@@jpmudkip1870 could be possible
Cool. I live in Luderitz which is on the coast just northwest of the Crater. It being 2.5 kilometers across the impactor would have either being a 250 meter comet or 100 meter iron/nickel asteroid. A while back I used this one asteroid impact simulator to calculate the possible size of the object. If it was a comet then it would have been about 250 meters across. If it was an asteroid then it would have been about 85 to 100 meters across. The size depends on the incoming speed and angle of the object.
I’m a neighbor to your south. I would like to see this when I visit Luderitz at some stage. You explanation makes sense. I wonder if geologists have dug into the crater to try locate traces of iron or nickel.
@@springbok4015 Probably not since any fragments would be widely scattered across the landscape, and buried under tens of meters of sand.
With asteroids and comets, the Crater they form is usually 10 to 20 times the size of the object. It also depends on what it's made of, density, the angle it comes in, the speed and where it lands.
Did you take into account the velocity based on where it presumably originated in the solar system? The model you used seems quite sound. In my models I often look at the inferred composition, and see where it made the most sense to originate from in the solar system.
@@springbok4015 of course, permission would be needed for this. However it is of scientific interest to determine what the impactor was. I doubt that a solid piece will be found (but then again I’ve seen weirder stories where iron-nickel fragments get pulled out of craters). There could be hundreds of fragments buried beneath all of the sand and we would not know without a thorough survey
@@GeologyHub Yeah. The program I used is called the Earth Impact Effects Program. It was designed by Robert Marcus, H. Jay Melosh and Gareth Collins. It gives a number off effects. You can put in the distance, what the composition or density it is, the speed, the angle, whether it lands in water, sedimentary or igneous rock.
I genuinely love this channel's content. 10/10
No everyone, it didn't form a sheet of glass from silicas in the sands back then because there wasn't a desert there!
It was a sedimentary rock area with gneiss underneath. So very rocky and old like 3 billion years at least.
GH is right about the age of the impact being millions of years ago. The sands came later and the winds piled up the
sand inside the circular depression over the time as the sands took over. It is far deeper , at 330 feet deep and 3/4 a mile
in diameter.
Very interesting, I really enjoy those who add a little of their own thinking, instead of just repeating what others have come up with. Great job.
Hi GeologyHub . Please make a doc on the Kalahari desert in Botswana and the impact crater that formed it. As a novice Im not sure if it is true but I heard that the Kalahari in Botswana is actually a massive crater going up to 3000 ft deep in its centre and over tens of millions of years , filled up with sand from rivers and swamps and is now flat. A farmer friend of mine living in the Kalahari drilled his borehole 3000 ft deep before he hit the rock at the bottom of the now sand filled crater ( about 300 miles diameter ) and once through that rock layer, the water was reached.
Due to it being filled with sand and so deep , it absorbs all rainfall and thus there are no rivers and the plants in that area are all water wise plants , tubulers , baobabs , aloes , melons , bulbs etc. Also very fascinating.
Very interesting video. Thank you for sharing this with us!
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I had never heard of this... Great info!! I learn something new almost everyday on this channel, and I have slways loved geology.
Love to see a video on the various Astroblemes in Texas some where rather large
Very good. Thank you
Do the Popigai crater in Russia! There are a few good ones in Russia.
I bet you can spot one on the map in Eastern Russia if ya'll know what you ate looking at (maybe two or 3). A fun challenge ^_^
Have you covered Crater Mountain before? Next to Kings Canyon National park in California, i saw it on google earth, and looks like quiet a big ancient volcano complex?
I have flown over that crater a few times enroute from Windhoek to Cape Town and the pilot usually tells us about it , only , that it is not an impact crater but a geyser type of geological explosion from very deep that happened as a once off incident. Perhaps due to the fact that originally the Namib desert was about 4000 ft above sea level and has eroded since to 1500 ft , thus with less resistance and as a result allowing the high pressure hot spot to explode. There are geo faults in that area. About 35 miles from that crater is Ai-ais at the lower end of the Fish River Canyon , comparable to the Grand Canyon. Ai-Ais is a resort and has hot water springs too . So that crater and the springs must be from the same fault line.
Not far from it is also a massive meteorite that hit circa 1902 . It is about 98 % iron and is lying exposed . I estimated it at 100 tons but dont know how deep it goes into the ground. Its top is about 2ft above the ground. There are many more fascinating geo features in that desert . Ive been through it about 14 times.
The science supports an impact origin.
I don't think geothermal explosions usually produce such neat circular marks.
Good analysis... yes comets would have different impact characteristics. Comets being mostly frozen gas, would break up in upper atmosphere and surviving fragments impacting would not leave normal solid debris. I made an observation about the impacts near Great Lakes being comets or comet fragments like Jupiter's multiple impact event. It was the start of the YD period. Large pieces Ice Sheet were blasted in ballistic arc and was responsible for the Carolina Bays. You can imagine geologists looking for asteroid impact debris at ground zero of Tungusta event. No smoking gun because it was a gaseous comet. Everything evaporated post impact.
Hi GeologyHub. Thank you for the latest video. Very interesting hypothesis. I came across a circular landmark that could be an impact crater in Algeria but haven't been able to track down any info on it. Here are the coordinates if you'd like to take a look: 25°51'15.7"N 0°35'03.6"E
Actually that makes sense. Thank you I loved this.
Very well done
The name tells. "Roter Kamm" or Red Crest. Namibia used to be a German colony.
Can we get another flood basalt video soon?
Have you done a video on the Serpent Mound Impact structure in southern Ohio?
Oooo potential controversy! I love it.
I love your videos, but,, I wish you would include miles, and miles per hr as you do kilometers. PLEASE....
I'd agree with you a smaller liquid and gas mainly object hitting land has airburst potential greater than it's kinetic mass and density would suggest. Maybe this impact also spread wildfires further too contributing to the formation of the desert by creating a large vaporization of life and vegetation in the area!
Of course we enjoyed this video! You don't need to hope.
I would really like to see something on Craters of the Moon or Island park caldera.
This paper says there was limited impact melt, less than expected for the size: "Geophysical profile of the Roter Kamm impact crater, Namibia" JAN 27, 1998. "In addition, the scarcity of impact melt and suevite (Reimold et al., 1997) fragments found so far at the surface, despite a number of detailed geological rim traverses, could also be interpreted to indicate that only a limited amount of impact melt was produced in the Roter Kamm impact event." DOI:10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01649.x
I enjoyed this video as usual but the audio didn't seem as good as what I've come to expect.
Hello! I’d like you to cover the Siljan impact crater i Sweden.
There's one in Libya I found looking at Google Earth when the US attacked. It's pretty visible if you zoom in far enough, and look where nothing else would be.
Asteroid impact, 300km~500 km in diameter
Impact crater equal to the diameter of the moon ----> 3,500km
Location ----> Congo River circular (inner impact ring)
Nigeria -------- Victoria Falls (outer impact ring)
Would've been nice hearing you debunk why you think it was not an asteroid.
He did, he explained what a comet is made up off vs a asteroid.
2:55 Richter or MMS? And why would Richter ever be used over MMS?
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Cover the impact creating the vreedefort ring
Can you talk about the Ontong Java Plateau ?
What is the reason for your hypothesis, the shallowness of the crater compared to how wide it is?
So I'm not educated in the particular sciences to know, this isn't a criticism...
But what led you to determine it was a comet rather than an asteroid? What are the signs to look for there?
Love your videos by the way, if college wasn't needless expensive you've almost convinced me to study geology.
Wouldn't a sample examination of the debris give us a chemical differentiation between a meteorite and a comet? Has one been done already?
Don't know if this is of any interest to you, but would like info on how the Great Lakes formed, thanks. There is evidence the Lakes are getting about an inch shallower every year.
Great Lakes asteroid impact marks
"During the last ice age, the mile-thick Laurentide ice sheet covered most of Canada and the northern contiguous United States. The massive weight and movement of this glacier gouged out the earth to form the lake basins. About 20,000 years ago, the climate warmed and the ice sheet retreated."
0:35 "It is 70 km NW of the border with South Africa..." So about 12 miles from nowhere.
Why dont you do a story on Wolf creek crater in the northern part of Western Australia.
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Something hit south of Egypt maybe 20 million years ago leaving a patch of green glass on the surface. Much later(obviously), this glass was made into jewelry for the Pharaohs. How did that one form?
Likely a comet or loosely held together rocky asteroid that blew up before actual impact due to a steep angle when it went through the atmosphere.
There are hot and salt lakes in Saskatchewan....what causes this...thanks
Very thought provoking. Wouldn't an atmospheric comet breakup tend to lead to numerous smaller impactors hitting shotgun style, rather than a single deep impactor?
If they hit close enough together there isn't much difference.
@@DrewNorthup Perhaps only pedantic differences, but differences none the less.
For example: A multiple impact even in a fairly narrow area will still leave a wider, shallower crater with a more random (less than circular) crater rim.
It would also tend to suppress the formation of the central peak.
It's also suggests another possibility that there may be smaller craters nearby that have eroded or filled in with desert sand, if it was an only slightly broken up anything.
Perhaps the only remaining evidence to us is the core impact.
Knowledge is like a hydra. 1 answer leads to 10 questions. The trick usually is finding the right question.
Aircraft and the middle of nowhere, cool. And of course the crater, wonder how far to water or a road. I'm good with a comet, I still think something fast started the Hawaiian islands chain, punched a hole right through the Pacific Plate.
Not likely considering the depth of ocean.
Is there any impact glass associated with this?
Did you do Tungusga?
Question. Is the moon hyperion a comet that got captured by Saturns gravity.
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You'd think in 4 million years more than 100 meters would have filled in from blowing sand.
I hope we will have defence and can protect our planet!🌞
The Tsar Bomb was 50 megatons of TNT. Is it possible you are underestimating the explosive power of this event?
I can understand coming up with different measurements for the type of interstellar object that created the crater but how the hell are you able to determine where that object originated from the solar system?
If his hypothesis is correct, that the object was a comet, then the place of origin would have to be the outer solar system.
How do you know when this event took place? What did you measure? I. e., how do you know it was millions of years ago and not thousands?
By the erosion of the crater and by looking at things like geochemical alteration and faulting that imprint over each other, if one is imprinted over or cutting through another then you can confidentally say which one had to be there first, then if you can age date one or more features you can make fair assumptions about others based on their physical relationship to each other.
_"5 metre asteroid ..."_
Barringer crater is half the diameter of Roter Kamm and its impactor was 50 metres across.
It was Iron Impacter not a Comet
There is a large possible impact crater near camp Verde no one seems to know about if interested I will send you Directions it’s more filled in been there twice looks just like Barringer crater but smaller same up turned rocks impact silt ect.
@@ringhunter1006 Near Camp Verde? I've never heard of such. What is it?
@@petercollingwood522 would you like directions also do you have Google earth or ?
@@ringhunter1006 I would like directions. I don't have google earth but my wife does. She's a geology lecturer.
It seems likely, that traveling in excess of 51Km/second that a small comet would not have made it to the earths surface. Instead, traveling at that speed, hitting the earths atmosphere, it would have detonated at some elevation above the ground. eg Tunguska.
This is also a possibility that must be considered. I just could not find a better fit given the available evidence.
You could do a calculation involving the heat load arriving on the surface of the asteroid. It would it be a large power of 10 in Watts. You need to know quantities like the conductivity of rock, also the total pressure on the leading part of the asteroid (order of air density x velocity^2 due to density of atmosphere), also the energy of the arriving air molecules per unit area per unit time, likely order of air density x velocity^3. I suspect that the leading side of the asteroid would be vaporised, layer by layer, more quickly than heat could conduct to the interior (since heat conduction is a slower process). That probably means that the conductivity of the asteroid is not important.
Orcs are sending comets from their home world in the Oort Cloud at us.
4.8 million years ago, where did you pull that number from????
Go look it up.
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Every dinosaur bone ever tested has carbon-14. Try looking that up.
Then drawn on that left calf muscle
How can you say it's less dense then say it's going faster than normal asteroids.
"Roter Kamm" is german for "red ridge"
I love seeing something new
I'm not very interested in a big hole in a desolate wilderness... Glad it missed populated areas...
Richter scale? What rock have you had your head under for the past half-century?
Where does the logic of a 5 meter sized astroid come from.
The amount of energy required to make a crater of a given size is appropriately equal to the mass of the object that created the crater multiplied by its velocity, we know roughly how fast most meteors fall to earth so from that we can calculate its approximate mass, and then because we know the density (rock) we can calculate its volume.
I find your hypothesis to be plausible.
Are there any impact craters in Greece ?
The lakes of Zerelia are thought to be impact craters, but it has yet to be confirmed.
Love your channel. I have asked this question before and was discouraged by an "expert". Going to try again. Have you noticed how the deepest earthquakes in the world are unusually clustered at 180 degrees?
The commit is what caused the desertHe used to be all jungles
How can you suggest that it was a comet fragment as opposed to some other type of meteorite? You haven't cited anything besides circumstantial evidence and admitted that hardly any evidence exists.
He did explain, the difference is comet is composed of different material than meteorite. Which would affect the impact it has.
He said that it was a personal hypothesis.
I'm not sure. It's not that deep
"It contrasts with the accepted theory...which doesn't in my opinion withstand a basic eyeball test and seems off."
That's the kind of reasoning I'd expect from a Flat Earther or Creationist.
I bet that meteor is worth a few quid get the spades out .
Coming in at a 45 deg angle and then leaving a perfect circular hole is a bit of a stretch for me.
It's an explosion at the impact site, which has circular symmetry. The majority of craters on the Moon are also circular, in spite of the fact that the impact directions must have been spread over all possible angles. It takes an oblique impact within about 10 degrees of the horizontal to generate an extended crater. Many of the lunar craters have asymmetric ejecta blankets indicating an oblique impact, but the craters themselves are still circular.
@@ceejay0137 Amazing, thx.
Don’t bother it was just a dirty snowball .sack it?
Its not an impact crater, aint deep enough for its diamiter... yikes, and asteroids and comets are the same damn thing! wowzers
Uh........no.
@@booklover6753 uh, yeah
EDM - Electrical Discharge Machining
Many craters tend to be almost perfectly spherical. Impact craters very rarely achieve this symmetry. Furthermore, if we look at the craters on the moon, for example, why do the vast majority of impacts appear to have been created by something emanating from directly above, and not at randomn angles as you might expect from projectiles moving through space?
. Some of the craters exhibit internal spiral patterns. Impact craters don't do this.
. Crater chains often appear in straight lines. The chances of this happening are close to zero.
. Channels begin and end out of nowhere.
. Channels tend to be predominantly flat floored, ending with steep walls.
. Channels often criss-cross, ignoring pre-existing channels. Liquids don't do this.
. Channels often run up hill. Again, liquids don't tend to do this.
. Many planetary rilles run for thousands of miles in almost straight lines or wave like patterns.
. Missing debris. Assuming some of the features are produced by traditional methods, where did the material that has been removed go to?
Most of these electrical features are reproducible in the lab.
Sometimes these features are explained away as lava flows, or collapsed lave tubes, even where there is little evidence for any other volcanic activity. Wind and water may also be cited, but typically the planets concerned are supposed to be dry, or at least have been for many millions of years.
It is also interesting to note that many meteorites hit the earth without producing craters, and that we find many craters with no evidence of any impact!
There are many reasons why craters can have different shapes, it depends on the angle in which they hit the atmosphere and then the planet. Also the moon doesn't have an atmosphere to speak of to cause any deflection or wear down the craters over time due to rain and such.
And there are plenty of meteors that simply explode before they actually impact like the one in Siberia and we recently saw again on a smaller scale. more loosely held together asteroids could easily break apart and turn into multiple impactors which would indeed cause straight lines of craters because they won't just suddenly go off in random directions.
" Electrical Discharge Machining" - quackery.
@@TheDanEdwards Valles Marineris in the Laboratory? th-cam.com/video/dSRLb85UAEA/w-d-xo.html You do know plasma is highly electrical and has 3 modes dark, glow and arc discharge? Have you notice the search for dark matter and dark energy has failed. Over one hundred research papers and no joy. Have you notice Fusion power research has failed after over 80 years of research. How does our Sun work? Look at all the unsolved problems Astrophysics and Particle Physics and you could call it pseudoscience lacking empirical evidence. Industrial manufacturing does use EDM so its not quackery. Gravity is a weak force compared to Electromagnetism.
@@SilvaDreams " more loosely held together asteroids could easily break apart and turn into multiple impactors which would indeed cause straight lines of craters because they won't just suddenly go off in random directions. " Has any one observed what you think or is a wild guess lacking empirical evidence . Remember when volcanoes with lava flows was the answer for many of the features just like asteroids and meteor were dusty snow balls. Oh and don't forget 1901 scientist believed alien's were on mars building cannels.
@@TheDanEdwards th-cam.com/video/pD69C7bAfis/w-d-xo.html
Pure speculation.
Wrong. It was a UFO. 🤣
Yes, back then there was no SHADO to prevent alien invaders.
You don't provide any evidence in support of your hypothesis other than your personal observation of the shape of the crater. Disappointing.
He literally did in the video, did you miss the part of him explaining the composition of the two types to show why it affects the impact?
need video of the impact