Google Earth Images Confirm Mythological Meteor Impact
Australian Aborigine mythology begins in a period known as the "dream time", before the emergence of humanity. Many stories about the dream time include legends about stars, gods, or rocks falling from the sky. And new research utilizing Google Earth surveys of the outback show that many of those myths may actually be historically accurate. Writing in the journals Archaeoastronomy and Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Duane Hamacher, an astrophysicist Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, describes how examination of Aborigine myths led him to discover previously unidentified blast crater about 81 miles south of the town of Alice Springs. Related ArticlesFour Years of Google Earth, and What Has it Found? Google Earth Reveals Oddities and Secrets Google Earth Reveals Secret Chinese SubmarineTagsScience, Stuart Fox, aborigine, Australia, craters, google maps, maps, meteorites, meteors, mythology, spaceIn the myth, a star falls to Earth at a site the Arrernte tribe call Puka. Hamacher located the...