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How to Discover Impact Craters with Google Earth
Maikel_NAI writes "Believe it or not, Emilio Gonzalez, a Spaniard amateur began his crater search at home after reading an article about the discovery of Kebira, the biggest one found in the Sahara. After a couple of minutes he located two craters. After checking the records, he realized these were completely new, and now two geologists confirm his findings. And there is more, these craters may be part of a chain studied by NASA geologist Adriana Ocampo, so if it's confirmed that these new ones are part of the same episode, it could mean the definitive evidence for her theory of an asteroid broken into pieces fallen in that area."
Here's a KMZ I put together to show the locations of the craters. If you have Google Earth installed you can just upzip it then double-click the icon. Clkoerner.com Enjoy!
Zoom in on the coastline of southern Cuba and you'll see a narrow bay cutting deeply into the shore. With a little imagination you can almost see the IVth, Vth and VIth ammendments of the Constitution of the United States of America being violated.
Over the past year I've been reading slashdot less and less because it's impossible to enjoy any technical or science discussion without parsing through a host of imbeciles foisting thier political beliefs into the discussion. The slashdot powers-that-be added a Politics section to provide a platform for people to stand on their political soapbox. Wake up moderators! This is a SCIENCE discussion. The parent isn't insightful, he's off topic!