Wandertag: What Happened in the Crater of the Nördlinger Ries?
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The Nördlinger Ries is a gigantic crater. For a long time, many geologists did not want to believe that an asteroid hit there 14.8 million years ago.
14.8 million years ago an asteroid struck into today's southern Germany and left strange rocks. Franzi and Karl tell the Nördlinger Ries in this podcast episode on AstroGeo-Wandertag: Why did geologists reject the impact theory over many decades?
For AstroGeo we regularly research a whole story. Only if you support us financially will the podcast remain free of charge. Thank you! Around 14.8 million years ago, today's southern Germany experiences a catastrophe: At a cosmic speed of over 54,000 kilometers per hour, an asteroid rushes towards the Earth. Due to its size of over one kilometer, it is hardly slowed down by the atmosphere and strikes into the eastern foothills of the Swabian Al…
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