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Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia

Posted by timothy on from the convict-labor-can-fill-it-back-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of the largest meteorite impacts in the world has been discovered in the South Australian outback by geothermal researchers. It may explain one of the many extinction events in the past 600 million years, and may contain rare and exotic minerals. The crater is said to have been 'produced by an asteroid six to 12 km across' — which is really big!"

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  1. Obama's a pussy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your self-evident truth of the day. How's that Hope and Change smelling 2 years later? A bit rancid, no? So much for a new era of politics, post-racialism, and government transparency. The funniest thing has been watching all those wide-eyed 18-year-olds voting for the first time realize that this shiny new suit that distracted them all during the election season was in fact empty, and that the President in fact does not have the powers of an emperor. Lot, fucking twits.