History of Russia

218,000,000 years ago, the impact of a large asteroid on Wilkes Land, Antarctica, caused a crater 500 km in diameter, the collision would have produced about 8000 million megatons. At 1000 km from the impact, the fireball rose in the sky with a brightness 130 times higher than the Sun, causing winds of more than 5000 km / H with pressures of up to 32.6 bars, and earthquakes above 11 degrees on the...