{"id":98714,"date":"2025-10-24T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/98714\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:49:07","slug":"crater-suggests-an-asteroid-hit-guangdong-10000-years-ago-with-blast-like-40-atomic-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/98714\/","title":{"rendered":"Crater suggests an asteroid hit Guangdong 10,000 years ago with blast like 40 atomic bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have confirmed that a large crater in China\u2019s southern Guangdong province formed as a result of an asteroid impact<\/a> around 10,000 years ago, at a time when human civilisation was undergoing rapid development.<\/p>\n

The Jinlin crater, located near the city of Zhaoqing, is just the fifth confirmed impact crater in China and the first one to be identified in the country\u2019s southern region.<\/p>\n

Through analysis of the tilted bowl-shaped crater on a hillside with a diameter of about 900 metres (2,952 feet), the team determined that it was likely caused by an extraterrestrial object<\/a> around 30 metres (98.5 feet) in diameter.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouthern China covers about one-quarter of the nation\u2019s land area. The Jinlin crater is the first confirmed impact structure in this region,\u201d the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes on October 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe energy released by the impact is estimated to be 600,000 tonnes of TNT,\u201d said Chen Ming, study author and a researcher at the Centre for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists have confirmed that a large crater in China\u2019s southern Guangdong province formed as a result of an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[32766,72590,72591,607,72595,20799,72588,72593,72596,72589,111,139,69,32101,147,72594,392,72592],"class_list":{"0":"post-98714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-asteroid-impact","9":"tag-baijifeng-crater","10":"tag-chen-ming","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-extraterrestrial-object","13":"tag-guangdong-province","14":"tag-hailin-crater","15":"tag-holocene","16":"tag-jinlin-crater","17":"tag-matter-and-radiation-at-extremes","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-qinghai-tibet-plateau","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-southern-china","24":"tag-space","25":"tag-zhaoqing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}