They find in the UK the crater caused by an asteroid 1200 million years ago

A team of researchers found a Crater submerged under the water in a remote area of ​​Scotland. This opening, now covered with rocks in the Minch Basin, did an asteroid about 1.2 billion years ago.

This discovery is a new milestone for the discovery by scientists from the British Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen in 2008. At that time, they had found evidence of the collision in the northwestern 39. Scotland, but had not found the exact location of the crater.

"This discovery is exciting," said Ken Amor of the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. The expert commented that excavated material during an impact is rarely preserved as it erodes quickly.

"It is by chance that it has landed in an ancient valley where fresh sediments have quickly covered the rubble and preserved it.The next step will be a detailed geophysical survey in our target area in the basin. Minch, "said Amor.

The scientist said that "It must have been a show when this great asteroid hit an arid landscape, scattering dust and rock debris in a very large area. "At this point, it should be noted that 1 billion, 200 years ago, most of life on this planet was in the oceans.

according to The Guardian, The object was about 1,600 meters wide and crushed about 60,000 kilometers at the time. The resulting crater has an approximate width of 19 kilometers. What remains is submerged about 180 meters deep and covered with sediment.

In statements to the press, the researcher indicated that impacts of this type, with objects of about a kilometer, they rarely occurbetween 100,000 and 1 million years ago.