After being discovered .. all you want to know about the biggest asteroid pit hit the UK
Scientists have discovered a 25-mile hole produced during the worst ever asteroid effect in the United Kingdom, and warned of the possibility of another space rock that would cause a similar level of destruction in the future.
Evidence of the disaster was first found near the Scottish town of Ullapool more than a decade ago, but the huge hole left by the 13 billion-tonne rock has now been identified. Scientists have confirmed that the collision occurred 1.2 billion years ago and caused a powerful explosion More than 900 million bombs from Hiroshima.
"Rarely, the material that was excavated during the impact of a giant meteorite on Earth is rarely preserved because it is rapidly eroded, so this is a very exciting discovery," said Oxford Earth scientist Ken O'Mear.
Although the event is old, scientists predict the possibility of a similar event in the future, given the number of asteroid and comet fragments floating in the solar system, they believe that a collision of this magnitude occurs once every 100,000 to one million years.
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