Shane Bergin

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128 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea · Is photographic memory a real thing? · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

Very big, you know.

And as you say, it's controversial.

What they were doing is a new form of kind of ultrasound effectively to try and look at images of what's there.

And crucially, they were looking at taking samples.

And it was the samples that gave them the clue, the kind of the real, the smoking gun.

Yeah, that's what they found here.

As they found something called shocked quartz and also feldspar crystals.

Exactly.

It can only have been made from a huge intensity event.

So like an asteroid collision is the thing they've arrived at.

So they're absolutely certain now that it was this asteroid.

It struck the Earth about 40 million years ago and its diameter was around 160 metres.

And they're able to tell from the samples that it came in at a low angle from the west.

So from the Irish direction, right?

That's the important thing to stress here.

Much smaller than the one that hit the dinosaurs or caused the death of the dinosaurs, which was between 10 and 15 kilometres.

So city-sized asteroid that hit the Earth.

But this one in Yorkshire would have caused a huge amount of damage.

Tsunamis with waves of over 100 metres tall

So it's absolutely incredible that after all this time, they're able to tell us now with great confidence where this unusual crater came from.

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