{"id":1380,"date":"2010-03-10T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2016-01-08T03:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T08:04:21","slug":"impact-crater-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2010\/impact-crater-on-google-maps","title":{"rendered":"Impact Crater on Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1381\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-10-at-9.17.33-AM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1381 size-large\" title=\"Big-ass crater in the Democratic Republic of Congo\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-10-at-9.17.33-AM1-1024x451.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-10-at-9.17.33-AM1-1024x451.png 1024w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-10-at-9.17.33-AM1-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-10-at-9.17.33-AM1.png 1433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 85vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big-ass crater in the Democratic Republic of Congo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8526093.stm\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=-3.639883,24.500656&amp;num=1&amp;t=h&amp;sll=42.336944,-72.688808&amp;sspn=0.006295,0.006295&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=-3.624442,24.532471&amp;spn=0.867547,1.448822&amp;z=10\" target=\"_blank\">this crater<\/a> some 40 km across may have been caused by the impact of a 2km asteroid several tens of millions of years ago. The prevailing thought is that it was mid-Creatceous \u2014 that is, sort of in the middle of the Age of Dinosaurs. The scientists that discovered it are planning on going and taking field observations. If it&#8217;s what they think, it&#8217;s one of 25 known on Earth, so it&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s wholly unique.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what&#8217;s neat to <em>me<\/em> is that I found it on Google Maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article, this crater some 40 km across may have been caused by the impact of a 2km asteroid several tens of millions of years ago. The prevailing thought is that it was mid-Creatceous \u2014 that is, sort of in the middle of the Age of Dinosaurs. The scientists that discovered it are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2010\/impact-crater-on-google-maps\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Impact Crater on Google Maps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}