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The biggest and oldest are in > marth) Quecunland ayd they became A giant asteroid seems on a collision “It will be possible to solve this prob- younger and smaller as they progress course with Earth, according to Soviet lem only in one way - by setting up an south. According to the theory, the Aus- scientist Alexander Voytsekhovsky. All-World Space Service for the defence tralian aaineut has drifted northovera British astronomers have calculated of Earth,” he said. eeronery, hot spot’ deep below the that the asteroid, discovered four years Mentioning lost civilizations, he said Earth’s crust. ago and known as “1983 TV”, will col- Atlantis may be only a hypothesis, “but | Regular eruptions from the hot spot lide with the Earth in the year 2115, says huge craters on the Earth’s surface may have formed the boomerang trail as Voytsekhovsky. caused by large meteoroids are a real- _ the continent snaked across it in a ‘dog- “If studies confirm that the two ce- ity’. He said only a great catastrophe leg’ fashion. The most recent southern lestial bodies will collide, then our suc- could explain why such diverse civiliza- volcanoes are the smallest, suggesting cessors will have two choices in order to tions as the Egyptians, Assyrians and the hot spot is cooling down. save themselves - either to make the the Mayans began their calendars at Northern Drift asteroid alter its course, or to blow it up almost exactly the same time. in space,” he wrote in the newspaper Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya. “Given the present level of scientific and technological progress, the second option is more realistic. “But the complexity of the problem is obvious even to laymen.” Vast sums of money would be needed to precisely locate the asteroid and send a space interceptor to destroy it. The Australian continent is being pushed north at the rate of six cen- timetres a year as the oceans grow wider, according to Dr Laurie Drake, senior lecturer in Earth Sciences at Sydney’s Macquarie University. The continental plates also shift up to ten centimetres each year around the June solstice, causing minor tremors, says Dr Drake. This is due to the fact that theearth ‘winds up’ and slows down an- Nexus New Times Three : 3 Boomerang Volcanoes Ancient Australian volcanoes have / @OOMERUNG Sg slowly marched down the East clue to next ) CE RnerERn coast, forming chainsin the shape of 1 : boomerangs pointing west. volcanic Many of the eastern volcanic fields 1 : are young and dormant and an eruption eruption could happen “at any time,” but a new theory about the regular ‘return’ of the boomerang formations may help pre- dict when and where our next volcano will erupt. After twenty years of study and field work, Australian Museum geologist Dr Lin Sutherland recently noticed the regular boomerang shapes and that the boomerangs kept returning further south over time. HOTSPOTS “Although it may not seem so, CORRE eastern Australia is one of the great real ener volcanic belts of the world,” Dr Suth- erland said. nually in its elliptical orbit. major volcano. Deep gas discharges Aborigines Witnessed Tasmania Next? have also been detected in Tasmanian Eruptions Dr Sutherland, a senior Museum re- | minesandsomeofthecrustin theregion “Some are so fresh they look like they searcher in earth sciences, believes a is much hotter than surrounding areas, _ iptesl rust venieaiaemenanee . mighty rift opened up like a zipper be- but the time of another eruption is | eS an pe neath the floor of the Coral and Tasman anyone’s guess. yas they poe tas nbovigines aie Seas 90 to 65 million years ago. “It could be tomorrow or it could be tainly witnessed eruptions and the last The rift in th 1 5,000 Bat Kediearthedh one, at Mount Gambier in South Austra- gains aes aiding ft eee lia robably meparad-onte abbott 4.000 where beneath Bass Strait, so Tasmania of it happening again soon are pretty de pa y ' is the most likely candidate for our next high,” said Dr Sutherland. years ago.” Eastern Australia’s volcanoes have e erupted regularly over the past 99mi- | Asteroid On Course for Earth lion years. The biggest and oldest are in > north Queensland and they become A giant asteroid seems on a collision “It will be possible to solve this prob- younger and smaller as they progress course with Earth, according to Soviet lem only in one way - by setting up an south. According to the theory, the Aus- scientist Alexander Voytsekhovsky. All-World Space Service for the defence tralian continent has drifted northovera British astronomers have calculated of Earth,” he said. eeronery, hot spot’ deep below the that the asteroid, discovered four years Mentioning lost civilizations, he said Earth’s crust. ago and known as “1983 TV”, will col- Atlantis may be only a hypothesis, “but Regular eruptions from the hot spot lide with the Earth in the year 2115, says huge craters on the Earth’s surface may have formed the boomerang trail as Voytsekhovsky. caused by large meteoroids are a real- the continent snaked across it in a ‘dog- “If studies confirm that the two ce- ity’. He said only a great catastrophe leg’ fashion. The most recent southern lestial bodies will collide, then our suc- could explain why such diverse civiliza- volcanoes are the smallest, suggesting cessors will have two choices in order to tions as the Egyptians, Assyrians and the hot spot is cooling down. save themselves - either to make the the Mayans began their calendars at Northern Drift asteroid alter its course, or to blow it up almost exactly the same time. in space,” he wrote in the newspaper Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya. “Given the present level of scientific and technological progress, the second option is more realistic. “But the complexity of the problem is obvious even to laymen.” Vast sums of money would be needed to precisely locate the asteroid and send a space interceptor to destroy it. The Australian continent is being pushed north at the rate of six cen- timetres a year as the oceans grow wider, according to Dr Laurie Drake, senior lecturer in Earth Sciences at Sydney’s Macquarie University. The continental plates also shift up to ten centimetres each year around the June solstice, causing minor tremors, says Dr Drake. This is due to the fact that theearth ‘winds up’ and slows down an- Nexus New Times Three 3 volcanic eruption Asteroid On Course for Earth clue to next