New crater found in Egypt

[herpguy]

Scientists have recently discovered a large, 19 mile (31 kilometer) crater in Egypt. The astroid that made the crater was probably about 3/4 of a mile wide. An impact like that would have destroyed everything in hundreds of miles. For comparison, the Chicxlub crater that was left by the asteroid that may have killed the dinosaurs is about 100 to 150 miles (160 to 240 kilometers) wide.

 

The crater was discovered in satellite images by Boston University and researchers Forouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim. El-Baz named the crater Kebira which means "large" in Arabic.

 

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/060303_big_crater.html

 

I find it amazing that we are still discovering things like this today. I hope research continues on this subject, it may save us from astroids in the future .

[wormholeman]

Ya, thats interesting..Also note that in here in canada there is a crater very large also. I dont know much about it but there is one in canada too.