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Odd Impact Crater found in the North Sea

Posted by michael on from the cosmic-billiards dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just noticed this on MSNBC. It seems they discovered an impact crater in the North Sea that doesn't look like anything else seen on Earth. Supposedly it looks like something usually seen on moons of Jupiter."

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  1. No, that's the hard way... by eyepeepackets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...to catch space rocks. If you let them hit the water, they splash all over everything and heat up the air. Better to catch them _before_ they enter the atmosphere.

    See, if the dinosaurs had been smarter, they wouldn't be extinct. Q.E.D.

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