A paper in Nature Communications provides evidence that Silverpit Crater, on the UK continental shelf, has an extraterrestrial impact origin. go.nature.com/4nL7Zz5 ⚒️ 🧪
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A paper in Nature Communications provides evidence that Silverpit Crater, on the UK continental shelf, has an extraterrestrial impact origin. go.nature.com/4nL7Zz5 ⚒️ 🧪
🚢🚨 Öl-Desaster vor Englands Küste!
Der Tanker #StenaImmaculate kollidiert mit einem Frachter – die Gefahr für das einzigartige Schutzgebiet #SilverPit, Papageientaucher & Robben ist enorm. 🌊 @kdetloff.bsky.social unser Leiter vom Team Meeresschutz berichtet.
Der Tanker #StenaImmaculate kollidiert mit einem Frachter – die Gefahr für das einzigartige Schutzgebiet #SilverPit, Papageientaucher & Robben ist enorm. 🌊 @kdetloff.bsky.social unser Leiter vom Team Meeresschutz berichtet.
A tanker and cargo ship tragically collided off the Yorkshire coast yesterday.
Our first thoughts are with the crew and emergency responders. We are deeply concerned about the potential impact of pollution on seabirds and marine life.
Read more: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
Our first thoughts are with the crew and emergency responders. We are deeply concerned about the potential impact of pollution on seabirds and marine life.
Read more: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
March 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚢🚨 Öl-Desaster vor Englands Küste!
Der Tanker #StenaImmaculate kollidiert mit einem Frachter – die Gefahr für das einzigartige Schutzgebiet #SilverPit, Papageientaucher & Robben ist enorm. 🌊 @kdetloff.bsky.social unser Leiter vom Team Meeresschutz berichtet.
Der Tanker #StenaImmaculate kollidiert mit einem Frachter – die Gefahr für das einzigartige Schutzgebiet #SilverPit, Papageientaucher & Robben ist enorm. 🌊 @kdetloff.bsky.social unser Leiter vom Team Meeresschutz berichtet.
Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say
Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say
Silverpit crater off Yorkshire coast was caused by cathedral-sized asteroid that set off 100-metre tsunami 43m years ago
Deep below the seabed, 80 miles off the coast of Yorkshire, is a remarkable crater that has divided scientists – was it, thrillingly, created by an asteroid crash? Or more mundanely was it the result of geological salt movements?
Today, the decades-long scientific debate can be settled. The Silverpit crater 700 metres below the seabed under the North Sea was in all likelihood created by a direct hit from an asteroid or comet about the size of York Minster that hurtled towards the Earth more than 43m years ago. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say
It still blows my mind that *anyone* thought the Silverpit Crater in the North Sea was a salt-tectonic structure...🤯
February 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It still blows my mind that *anyone* thought the Silverpit Crater in the North Sea was a salt-tectonic structure...🤯
But geologists considered how shallow the crater is, its lack of iron & other factors, & waited for more evidence.
Last year, it arrived:
"Shocked minerals only form at extreme transient shock pressures that cannot be replicated by other terrestrial processes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Last year, it arrived:
"Shocked minerals only form at extreme transient shock pressures that cannot be replicated by other terrestrial processes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multiple lines of evidence for a hypervelocity impact origin for the Silverpit Crater - Nature Communications
The origins of Silverpit Crater have remained controversial since its discovery >20 years ago. This paper presents evidence for an extraterrestrial impact origin, including 3D seismic, computer sim...
www.nature.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
But geologists considered how shallow the crater is, its lack of iron & other factors, & waited for more evidence.
Last year, it arrived:
"Shocked minerals only form at extreme transient shock pressures that cannot be replicated by other terrestrial processes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
3/
Last year, it arrived:
"Shocked minerals only form at extreme transient shock pressures that cannot be replicated by other terrestrial processes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
3/
☄️ Asteroid crater found under North Sea
Scientists confirm the 2-mile-wide Silverpit crater off Yorkshire was made by an asteroid 43m years ago, triggering a 100-m tsunami.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Geology 🧪
Scientists confirm the 2-mile-wide Silverpit crater off Yorkshire was made by an asteroid 43m years ago, triggering a 100-m tsunami.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Geology 🧪
Multiple lines of evidence for a hypervelocity impact origin for the Silverpit Crater - Nature Communications
The origins of Silverpit Crater have remained controversial since its discovery >20 years ago. This paper presents evidence for an extraterrestrial impact origin, including 3D seismic, computer sim...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
☄️ Asteroid crater found under North Sea
Scientists confirm the 2-mile-wide Silverpit crater off Yorkshire was made by an asteroid 43m years ago, triggering a 100-m tsunami.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Geology 🧪
Scientists confirm the 2-mile-wide Silverpit crater off Yorkshire was made by an asteroid 43m years ago, triggering a 100-m tsunami.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Geology 🧪
Silverpit Crater may have formed from an impact. eos.org/articles/sub...
Submerged Crater near Europe Tied to an Impact - Eos
New subsurface imaging and rock samples suggest that Silverpit Crater formed from an impact that occurred roughly 45 million years ago.
eos.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Silverpit Crater may have formed from an impact. eos.org/articles/sub...
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Після двадцяти років суперечок науковці нарешті довели, що кратер Silverpit у Північному морі утворився внаслідок удару астероїда понад 40 мільйонів років тому.
Після двадцяти років суперечок науковці нарешті довели, що кратер Silverpit у Північному морі утворився внаслідок удару астероїда понад 40 мільйонів років тому.
October 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Після двадцяти років суперечок науковці нарешті довели, що кратер Silverpit у Північному морі утворився внаслідок удару астероїда понад 40 мільйонів років тому.
Після двадцяти років суперечок науковці нарешті довели, що кратер Silverpit у Північному морі утворився внаслідок удару астероїда понад 40 мільйонів років тому.
Silverpit e l’asteroide caduto nel Mare del Nord.
Gli abissi al largo della Gran Bretagna nascondono una cicatrice silenziosa ma eloquente, una testimonianza di un impatto cosmico che 43 milioni di anni fa ha lasciato segni indelebili nella geologia e nella memoria del pianeta.
🔭 Via @media.inaf.it
Gli abissi al largo della Gran Bretagna nascondono una cicatrice silenziosa ma eloquente, una testimonianza di un impatto cosmico che 43 milioni di anni fa ha lasciato segni indelebili nella geologia e nella memoria del pianeta.
🔭 Via @media.inaf.it
Silverpit e l’asteroide caduto nel Mare del Nord
Gli abissi al largo della Gran Bretagna nascondono una cicatrice silenziosa ma eloquente, una testimonianza di un impatto cosmico che 43 milioni di anni fa ha lasciato segni indelebili nella geologia ...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Silverpit e l’asteroide caduto nel Mare del Nord.
Gli abissi al largo della Gran Bretagna nascondono una cicatrice silenziosa ma eloquente, una testimonianza di un impatto cosmico che 43 milioni di anni fa ha lasciato segni indelebili nella geologia e nella memoria del pianeta.
🔭 Via @media.inaf.it
Gli abissi al largo della Gran Bretagna nascondono una cicatrice silenziosa ma eloquente, una testimonianza di un impatto cosmico che 43 milioni di anni fa ha lasciato segni indelebili nella geologia e nella memoria del pianeta.
🔭 Via @media.inaf.it
October 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
UPDATE: when Mesolithic people roamed this now-drowned landscape, they should have been able to see a 2-mile-wide crater - and this seems to be the cause of it: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Wow!
(Hat-tip to @mytholder.bsky.social).
Wow!
(Hat-tip to @mytholder.bsky.social).
September 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
UPDATE: when Mesolithic people roamed this now-drowned landscape, they should have been able to see a 2-mile-wide crater - and this seems to be the cause of it: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Wow!
(Hat-tip to @mytholder.bsky.social).
Wow!
(Hat-tip to @mytholder.bsky.social).
Researchers have confirmed that the Silverpit crater beneath the North Sea was created by an asteroid impact over 43 million years ago, revealed by seismic imaging and shock-altered rock
#AsteroidImpact
#Cosmos
🧪☄️⚒️🌊
Source:
www.hw.ac.uk/news/2025/sc...
Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AsteroidImpact
#Cosmos
🧪☄️⚒️🌊
Source:
www.hw.ac.uk/news/2025/sc...
Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evidence of an ancient asteroid impact in the North Sea
earthsky.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Researchers have confirmed that the Silverpit crater beneath the North Sea was created by an asteroid impact over 43 million years ago, revealed by seismic imaging and shock-altered rock
#AsteroidImpact
#Cosmos
🧪☄️⚒️🌊
Source:
www.hw.ac.uk/news/2025/sc...
Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AsteroidImpact
#Cosmos
🧪☄️⚒️🌊
Source:
www.hw.ac.uk/news/2025/sc...
Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you replied "possible withdrawal of rock support due to salt mobility," congratulations! That's exactly the result of a debate in the Geological Society of London in 2009.
I love this. We unqualified science enthusiasts would yell "HOLY CRAP FIRST CONFIRMED IMPACT CRATER IN GREAT BRITAIN"...
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I love this. We unqualified science enthusiasts would yell "HOLY CRAP FIRST CONFIRMED IMPACT CRATER IN GREAT BRITAIN"...
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February 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
If you replied "possible withdrawal of rock support due to salt mobility," congratulations! That's exactly the result of a debate in the Geological Society of London in 2009.
I love this. We unqualified science enthusiasts would yell "HOLY CRAP FIRST CONFIRMED IMPACT CRATER IN GREAT BRITAIN"...
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I love this. We unqualified science enthusiasts would yell "HOLY CRAP FIRST CONFIRMED IMPACT CRATER IN GREAT BRITAIN"...
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In 2002, petroleum scientists found this vast geological feature under the North Sea, 80 miles off the coast of East Yorkshire.
That centre section is 3km wide, the surrounding rings are 10km end to end - & it's clearly tens of millions of years old.
Go on then. What's your best guess?
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That centre section is 3km wide, the surrounding rings are 10km end to end - & it's clearly tens of millions of years old.
Go on then. What's your best guess?
1/
February 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
In 2002, petroleum scientists found this vast geological feature under the North Sea, 80 miles off the coast of East Yorkshire.
That centre section is 3km wide, the surrounding rings are 10km end to end - & it's clearly tens of millions of years old.
Go on then. What's your best guess?
1/
That centre section is 3km wide, the surrounding rings are 10km end to end - & it's clearly tens of millions of years old.
Go on then. What's your best guess?
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Це дослідження, опубліковане 20 вересня 2025 року в журналі Nature Communications, ставить Silverpit в один ряд із відомими кратерами, такими як Чиксулуб у Мексиці.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Це дослідження, опубліковане 20 вересня 2025 року в журналі Nature Communications, ставить Silverpit в один ряд із відомими кратерами, такими як Чиксулуб у Мексиці.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say
Silverpit crater off Yorkshire coast was caused by cathedral-sized asteroid that set off 100-metre tsunami 43m years ago
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Multiple lines of evidence for a hypervelocity impact origin for the Silverpit Crater www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multiple lines of evidence for a hypervelocity impact origin for the Silverpit Crater - Nature Communications
The origins of Silverpit Crater have remained controversial since its discovery >20 years ago. This paper presents evidence for an extraterrestrial impact origin, including 3D seismic, computer simulations and ‘shocked’ minerals near the crater.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Multiple lines of evidence for a hypervelocity impact origin for the Silverpit Crater www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Minä aloin lukemaan Silverpit-kraaterista. Ei pitäisi selata Bluuskia työpäivän aikana.
August 26, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Minä aloin lukemaan Silverpit-kraaterista. Ei pitäisi selata Bluuskia työpäivän aikana.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
If you missed this on the news, it’s probably because it was a very heavy news cycle 43-46,000,000 years ago.
If you missed this on the news, it’s probably because it was a very heavy news cycle 43-46,000,000 years ago.
A massive asteroid hit the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami
A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 milli...
www.sciencedaily.com
March 11, 2026 at 6:56 AM
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
If you missed this on the news, it’s probably because it was a very heavy news cycle 43-46,000,000 years ago.
If you missed this on the news, it’s probably because it was a very heavy news cycle 43-46,000,000 years ago.
W 2002 r. w południowej części Morza Północnego odkryto krater Silverpit. Wiek krateru oceniono na 43–46 mln lat, a naukowcy zaczęli się spierać, co do jego pochodzenia. Międzynarodowy zespół naukowy przedstawił analizy, które stanowią najsilniejszy dowód, że krater powstał wskutek upadku asteroidy.
Około 45 milionów lat temu do Morza Północnego wpadła asteroida
W 2002 roku w południowej części Morza Północnego odkryto krater Silverpit. Wiek krateru oceniono na 43–46 milionów lat, a naukowcy zaczęli się spierać, co do jego pochodzenia. Międzynarodowy zespół n...
kopalniawiedzy.pl
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
W 2002 r. w południowej części Morza Północnego odkryto krater Silverpit. Wiek krateru oceniono na 43–46 mln lat, a naukowcy zaczęli się spierać, co do jego pochodzenia. Międzynarodowy zespół naukowy przedstawił analizy, które stanowią najsilniejszy dowód, że krater powstał wskutek upadku asteroidy.
'...researchers say they finally have definitive proof that the Silverpit Crater, a buried structure in the North Sea, was created by an asteroid strike more than 40 million years ago'.
It's all very well quoting scientific experts, but what does Nigel Farage think?
It's all very well quoting scientific experts, but what does Nigel Farage think?
September 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
'...researchers say they finally have definitive proof that the Silverpit Crater, a buried structure in the North Sea, was created by an asteroid strike more than 40 million years ago'.
It's all very well quoting scientific experts, but what does Nigel Farage think?
It's all very well quoting scientific experts, but what does Nigel Farage think?
