{"id":29358,"date":"2020-07-04T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29358"},"modified":"2020-07-04T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T20:02:37","slug":"digging-a-hole-with-thors-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/04\/digging-a-hole-with-thors-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging A Hole With Thor&#8217;s Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research on the <strong>Chicxulub<\/strong> impact crater, generally considered the remains of the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, yielded the following fascinating diagram of the impact:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New simulations have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the &#39;deadliest possible&#39; angle. The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60\u00b0, which maximised the amount of climate-changing gases <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xqv3AmE4oH\">https:\/\/t.co\/xqv3AmE4oH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/faKoIAR25E\">pic.twitter.com\/faKoIAR25E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rainmaker1973\/status\/1265568577601638400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fascinating to think of granite as acting like a very low-grade rubber, isn&#8217;t it? It clearly compresses and then decompresses, leaving a peak, as shown at the end of the simulation. Compare to the lunar crater <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moretus_(crater)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Moretus<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Moreus-LRO.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Moreus-LRO.jpg?resize=480%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Moreus-LRO.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Moreus-LRO.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Moreus-LRO.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information courtesy of the <strong>Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera<\/strong> concerning central peak formation in lunar impact craters is <a href=\"http:\/\/lroc.sese.asu.edu\/posts\/532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research on the Chicxulub impact crater, generally considered the remains of the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, yielded the following fascinating diagram of the impact: New simulations have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the &#39;deadliest possible&#39; angle. The simulations show that the asteroid \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/04\/digging-a-hole-with-thors-hammer\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29374,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358\/revisions\/29374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}