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A mysterious hole has appeared in the Yamal peninsula

A mysterious hole has appeared in the Yamal peninsula.

The mysterious new crater at the end of the world

Meteorite, or something else?

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The giant hole appeared close to a forest some 30 kilometres from Yamal’s biggest gas field Bovanenkovo. Experts are confident that a scientific explanation will be found for it and that it is not – as one web claim suggested – evidence ‘of the arrival of a UFO craft’ to the planet.

A report and footage highlighted by Zvezda TV says the dark colour of the crater indicates ‘some temperature processes’, without explaining more what they may mean. Others say that the darkening around the inner rim indicates its formation was accompanied by severe burning scorching the edges.

via Large crater appears at the ‘end of the world’.

Filed Under: Planet Earth Tagged With: Meteorite, Siberia

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