I might be naive, but why don't they just use the Peruvian method for preserving craters: fill it with urine!
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:06:00 -0400 > Subject: [meteorite-list] Please help save the gigantic crater buried deep > under the ocean and solid rock! > > If we don't act now, the whole thing could be destroyed with only trillions of > dollars and hundreds of years of concerted effort by the entire global > population! So act today! > > http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/07/20/3556594.htm > > NASA calls for protection of asteroid impact zone in Mexico > > (EFE Ingles Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Mexico City, Jul 20 (EFE).- NASA is > advocating that the Mexican zone of Chicxulub, where 65 million years ago a > large meteorite impacted, changing the course of evolution on Earth, be > declared > a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. > > "It's a site unique in the world" where a phenomenon occurred that "changed > the > evolution of the Earth," Dr. Isabel Hawkins, an Argentine-U.S. astronomer with > the University of California at Berkeley and contracted with by the National > Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, to work in the zone, told Efe. > > A meteorite calculated to have been 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) in diameter > created the Chicxulub crater - a feature 200 kilometers (124 miles) wide - > when > it struck the spot just at the point in time separating the Cretaceous and > Tertiary Periods. > > The characteristics of the crater are still being investigated by scientists. > > Seventeen years ago, NASA began sending missions to the zone to analyze the > stratigraphy and geology there with an eye toward comparing the data with > other > verified meteorite impact sites, about 200 of which exist all around the > globe. > > The special aspect of the Chicxulub impact is that "the dinosaurs that had > ruled > the Earth for 250 million years really disappeared" after the blast, Hawkins > said. > > It was at that point that another group of vertebrates, the mammals, "who were > smaller and could not compete with the dinosaurs, could gain ground, increase > their strength and gain importance" evolutionarily, she said. > > Now, a scientist for NASA, Colombian Adriana Ocampo, is pushing UNESCO to > declare the zone a scientific World Heritage Site to preserve the impact > evidence and bring it to light. > > "She wants to support the Mexican government to promote a Unesco initiative," > she added. > > Hawkins says that her colleague "as a first step, obtained the support of the > Yucatan government." > > During the past week, NASA experts held open scientific-educational sessions > in > the zone to win the confidence of the local residents - about 3,000 of whom > live > in the immediate area - and make them aware "of the risk" for the area and the > benefits that could result if better scientific protection is implemented > there. > > Authorities are also speaking about fostering tourism and building a science > museum to explain the landmark event that happened here millions of years ago. > EFe > > act/bp > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _________________________________________________________________ Try Chicktionary, a game that tests how many words you can form from the letters given. Find this and more puzzles at Live Search Games! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/207 ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
