[meteorite-list] Please help save the gigantic crater buried deep under the ocean and solid rock!

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:44:50 -0400
Message-ID: <BAY141-W258301743CFD34EAA5E41F88A0_at_phx.gbl>

I might be naive, but why don't they just use the Peruvian method for preserving craters: fill it with urine!





> From: cynapse at charter.net
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:06:00 -0400
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Please help save the gigantic crater buried deep under the ocean and solid rock!
>
> If we don't act now, the whole thing could be destroyed with only trillions of
> dollars and hundreds of years of concerted effort by the entire global
> population! So act today!
>
> http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/07/20/3556594.htm
>
> NASA calls for protection of asteroid impact zone in Mexico
>
> (EFE Ingles Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Mexico City, Jul 20 (EFE).- NASA is
> advocating that the Mexican zone of Chicxulub, where 65 million years ago a
> large meteorite impacted, changing the course of evolution on Earth, be declared
> a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
>
> "It's a site unique in the world" where a phenomenon occurred that "changed the
> evolution of the Earth," Dr. Isabel Hawkins, an Argentine-U.S. astronomer with
> the University of California at Berkeley and contracted with by the National
> Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, to work in the zone, told Efe.
>
> A meteorite calculated to have been 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) in diameter
> created the Chicxulub crater - a feature 200 kilometers (124 miles) wide - when
> it struck the spot just at the point in time separating the Cretaceous and
> Tertiary Periods.
>
> The characteristics of the crater are still being investigated by scientists.
>
> Seventeen years ago, NASA began sending missions to the zone to analyze the
> stratigraphy and geology there with an eye toward comparing the data with other
> verified meteorite impact sites, about 200 of which exist all around the globe.
>
> The special aspect of the Chicxulub impact is that "the dinosaurs that had ruled
> the Earth for 250 million years really disappeared" after the blast, Hawkins
> said.
>
> It was at that point that another group of vertebrates, the mammals, "who were
> smaller and could not compete with the dinosaurs, could gain ground, increase
> their strength and gain importance" evolutionarily, she said.
>
> Now, a scientist for NASA, Colombian Adriana Ocampo, is pushing UNESCO to
> declare the zone a scientific World Heritage Site to preserve the impact
> evidence and bring it to light.
>
> "She wants to support the Mexican government to promote a Unesco initiative,"
> she added.
>
> Hawkins says that her colleague "as a first step, obtained the support of the
> Yucatan government."
>
> During the past week, NASA experts held open scientific-educational sessions in
> the zone to win the confidence of the local residents - about 3,000 of whom live
> in the immediate area - and make them aware "of the risk" for the area and the
> benefits that could result if better scientific protection is implemented there.
>
> Authorities are also speaking about fostering tourism and building a science
> museum to explain the landmark event that happened here millions of years ago.
> EFe
>
> act/bp
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