Talk:Eltanin impact

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Did you know... that the Eltanin Impact of a small asteroid in the Pacific Ocean resulted in the highest density of deposited meteoritic material on Earth?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/October.

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A different map needed.[edit]

A map of "The Pacific Ocean" centred on the equator, in this context is kinda useless. Much more useful woudl be a map of the Pacific centred either "roughly or exactly" on the impact site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.54.191 (talk) 08:30, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree Shaddim (talk) 21:37, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the map has been improved, but there are now two maps of roughly the same image in slightly different mapping formats. Furthermore, the "Location map" template appears broken. It doesn't have the proper border around it, and the text runs too close to the image, but I don't know how to fix it. When I look at the template page, this problem doesn't appear, but I don't know why.Jess_Riedel (talk) 11:56, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What is the contradiction[edit]

In the passage "At the time of the impact in the Late Pliocene, the Earth was cooling; but the impact and disruption to the weather could have triggered the start of ice cap formation in the Northern Hemisphere.", I do not understand exactly what the contradiction ("but") is supposed to be. Can someone who understands the reasoning of the authors of this passage fix the confusing grammar?

To paraphrase the sentence, I believe it means, "At the time of the impact, the Earth was cooling (for various reasons) which would have led to ice cap formation. BUT alternatively, the impact itself could have been the trigger of said ice cap formation." Titus III (talk) 08:56, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]