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Burckle Crater is an undersea crater likely to have been formed by a very large scale and relatively recent (c. 2800-3000 BC) comet
Comet

A comet is a Small Solar System body that orbits the Sun and, when close enough to the Sun, exhibits a visible coma or a tail?both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the Comet nucleus....
 or meteorite
Meteorite

A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earth's surface. While in space it is called a meteoroid....
 impact event
Impact event

An impact event is the collision of a large meteoroid, asteroid or comet with the Earth. Impact events have been a plot and background element in science fiction since knowledge of real impacts became established in the scientific mainstream....
. It is estimated to be about 30 km (18 mi) in diameter , hence about 25 times larger than the 1.2 km Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately east of Flagstaff, Arizona, near Winslow, Arizona in the northern Arizona desert of the United States....
 (image shown at right).

It is located to the east of Madagascar
Madagascar

Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....
 and west of Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
 in the southern Indian ocean
Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....
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Meteor
Burckle Crater is an undersea crater likely to have been formed by a very large scale and relatively recent (c. 2800-3000 BC) comet
Comet

A comet is a Small Solar System body that orbits the Sun and, when close enough to the Sun, exhibits a visible coma or a tail?both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the Comet nucleus....
 or meteorite
Meteorite

A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earth's surface. While in space it is called a meteoroid....
 impact event
Impact event

An impact event is the collision of a large meteoroid, asteroid or comet with the Earth. Impact events have been a plot and background element in science fiction since knowledge of real impacts became established in the scientific mainstream....
. It is estimated to be about 30 km (18 mi) in diameter , hence about 25 times larger than the 1.2 km Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately east of Flagstaff, Arizona, near Winslow, Arizona in the northern Arizona desert of the United States....
 (image shown at right).

It is located to the east of Madagascar
Madagascar

Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....
 and west of Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
 in the southern Indian ocean
Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....
. Its position was determined in 2006 by the Holocene Impact Working Group
Holocene Impact Working Group

The Holocene Impact Working Group is a group of scientists from Australia, France, Ireland, Russia and the USA who hypothesize that meteorite impacts on Earth are more common than previously supposed....
 using evidence of its existence from prehistoric chevron
Chevron (land form)

A chevron is a wedge-shaped sediment deposit_ observed on coastlines around the world. These formations sometimes include tiny fossils from the ocean....
 dune
Dune

In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by aeolian processes. Dunes are subject to different forms and sizes based on their interaction with the wind....
 formations in Australia and Madagascar that allowed them to triangulate
Triangulation

In trigonometry and geometry, triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline, rather than measuring distances to the point directly....
 its location.

Burckle Crater lies at in the Indian Ocean and is 12,500 feet (3,800 m) below the surface.

Indianocean

Formation

Burckle Crater has not yet been dated by radiometric analysis of its sediments. The Holocene Impact Working Group think that it was created about 5,000 years ago (c. 2800-3000 BC) during the Holocene
Holocene

The Holocene is a geological Epoch which began approximately 11,700 years ago . According to traditional geological thinking, the Holocene continues to the present....
 epoch
Epoch

Periodization* Epoch - A defining moment in the beginning of, or characteristic of, a distinctive historical period or era.* On the geologic time scale, a span of time smaller than a "period" and larger than an "age"....
 when a comet impacted in the ocean, and that enormous megatsunami
Megatsunami

Megatsunami is an informal term to indicate a tsunami that has initial wave heights that are much larger than normal tsunami. Unlike usual tsunamis, which originate from tectonic plate and the raising or lowering of the sea floor, known megatsunamis have originated from large scale impact events such as landslides and meteor impacts....
s created the dune formations which later allowed the crater to be pin-pointed.

Legend

As not only the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
, but other ancient writings from various cultures make reference to a 'great flood', it is possible that these legends are associated with this event. This time period saw: a) the Indus Valley Civilization
Indus Valley Civilization

The Indus Valley Civilization , abbreviated IVC, was an ancient civilization that flourished in the Indus River basin. Primarily centered along the Indus river, the civilization encompassed most of Pakistan, including its Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan provinces, and extending into modern day Indian states of Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab...
 and the end of its Early Harappan Ravi Phase at ca. 2800 BC; b) the end of the pre-dynastic
Sumerian king list

The Sumerian King List is an ancient text in the Sumerian language that lists monarch of Sumer from Sumerian and foreign dynasties. It records the location of "official" kingship, along with the rulers and the lengths of their rule....
 "antediluvian" rulers of the Sumerian civilization and the start of the First Dynasty of Kish
Sumerian king list

The Sumerian King List is an ancient text in the Sumerian language that lists monarch of Sumer from Sumerian and foreign dynasties. It records the location of "official" kingship, along with the rulers and the lengths of their rule....
 after 2900 BC. ("After the flood had swept over, and the kingship had descended from heaven, the kingship was in Kish
Kish

Kish may refer to:...
."); c) the pre-Xia dynasty
Xia Dynasty

The Xia Dynasty of China is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals....
 rule of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of China starting ca. 2850 BC (with the first two figures, Fuxi and Nuwa, as husband and wife credited with being the ancestors of humankind after a devastating flood).

See also

  • Spaceguard
    Spaceguard

    The term Spaceguard loosely refers to a number of efforts to discover and study near-Earth objects . Arthur C. Clarke coined the term in his novel Rendezvous with Rama where SPACEGUARD was the name of an early warning system created following a catastrophic Impact event....
  • B612 Foundation
    B612 Foundation

    The B612 Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to protecting the Earth from Impact event. Their immediate goal is to "significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner by 2015"....
  • Torino scale
    Torino Scale

    The Torino Scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets.It is intended as a tool for astronomy and the public to assess the seriousness of collision predictions, by combining probability statistics and known kinetic damage potentials into a single threat value....
  • Fenambosy Chevron
    Fenambosy Chevron

    The Fenambosy Chevron is one of four chevron on the southwest coast of Madagascar, near the tip of Madagascar, 600 feet high and three miles from the ocean....
  • Impact event
    Impact event

    An impact event is the collision of a large meteoroid, asteroid or comet with the Earth. Impact events have been a plot and background element in science fiction since knowledge of real impacts became established in the scientific mainstream....


External links

  • Impacts more recent and often, researchers say
  • Science of Tsunami Hazards (2003), Vol. 21, #3, p 174.