On the detection of the Wilkes Land impact crater

• Published in: Earth, Planets and Space
• Main Authors: Klokočník, Jaroslav, Kostelecký, Jan, Bezděk, Aleš
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2018
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Wilkes Land anomaly; impact crater/basin/mascon; Antarctic gravito-topographic model; gravity aspects; Antarctic; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10084/131644; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-018-0904-7

The definitive existence of a giant impact crater, two times larger than the Chixulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula, from an extraterrestrial origin, 1.6 km beneath Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, remain controversial. Here, we use the latest high-resolution gravito-topographic geopotential (SatGrav...