Asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago

[Justo Miranda]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv3e7gl72o

https://www.theguardian.com/science...was-created-by-asteroid-impact-scientists-say

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/c9wdvlj2w24o

 

[patriciaranieri]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv3e7gl72o




https://www.theguardian.com/science...was-created-by-asteroid-impact-scientists-say



https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/c9wdvlj2w24o geometry dash scratch

This is a fascinating discovery! Can this information help us prepare for future asteroid impacts?

 

[publiusr]

This is a fascinating discovery! Can this information help us prepare for future asteroid impacts?

That's what these guys are for
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-space-dynamics-lab-source-software.html

 

[NMaude]

Anton Petrov has just uploaded a video about this discovery:

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the newly found underwater crater found near England - Silverpit Crater
Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...com/articles/s41467-025-63985-z&v=KVjppMVhQp0
Other crater videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_2sLdHN5k
• Previously Unknown Impact 2.5 Million Year...

• Previously Unknown Impact 2.5 Million Year...

• The Biggest Craters on Earth and Asteroids...

• Scientists Identify a Crater that Created ...

• Unexpected Discovery of Another Crater Fro...

• Unexpected Discovery About Two Massive Imp... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsKdmKUV9fo
#crater #impact #silverpit

0:00 Massive crater near the UK
0:50 Craters on Earth
1:30 Craters under water
3:40 New crater in the North Sea - Silverpit Crater
4:50 Previous explanations and new evidence
6:30 When this happened and the tsunami
7:15 Was there a climate influence?
8:30 Conclusions
9:30 What's next?

 

[CJGibson]

There's another one (possibly)

Lairg Gravity Low - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lairg_Gravity_Low

Also, when I worked on BP's Harding platform in the late 1990s, the word was that its reservoir structure was due to it being a meteorite crater. I have never seen anything to support that, but who knows? Could be a collapsed salt dome, the swamp gas of meteorite impact research.

Chris

 

[publiusr]

In Wetumpka, Alabama, we have an asteroid crater excavated by a "shallow" water strike.

 

[CJGibson]

Shocked quartz?
Ah, yes.
Underlying strata fractured?
Yes, very.
Gravity anomaly?
Yes, that as well
Hmmm...Meteorite impact. There's a lot of it about.