By the end of 2050, three to six million meteorites will disappear due to melting ice in Antarctica
]Zurich/Mumbai: Climate change is having a very serious impact on Earth’s coldest and icy continent, Antarctica. Scientists from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) have given a serious warning based on their intensive research and study that due to sudden and dangerous changes in weather and climate, about 300,000 to 600,000 meteorites will disappear from Antarctica by the end of 2050.
That means all the meteorites that are there on the land of Antarctica are on the hard land there. Now warming will melt Antarctica’s ice, causing the land to become wetter and drier, resulting in meteorites falling to the hard ground. Will disappear forever.
The research paper has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
An exploratory study led by Daniele Farinotti, senior science professor at the Glaciology, Hydrology, Hydraulics Laboratory of ETH Zurich Public Research University, shows that Antarctica is a vast repository of meteorites that fell to Earth from space. This means that 60 percent of the meteorites that have fallen on Earth so far have been found from the Antarctic ice sheet. Astronomers from all over the world travel to Antarctica to research and study meteorites.
An important mention in the research paper is that meteorites actually hold answers to the mysteries of our solar system. Meteorites contain other substances, including minerals, by researching the formation of the solar system, including the birth of our Earth and Moon. That is, 4.5 billion years ago, our Earth was born from the Sun and then the Moon was born from the Earth. Apart from this, the secrets of the entire natural process can be known. It is also known under what circumstances life actually started on Earth. Can be applied. Also, the research of meteorites reveals the secrets and miracles of the universe.
On the other hand, the weather and climate changes occurring in vast areas of the Earth are also having a deep impact in Antarctica. Climate change is affecting Antarctica. Due to rising temperatures, Antarctica’s giant glaciers are melting, in particular, about 9,000 meteorites are disappearing from Antarctica’s vast ice sheet due to the impact of a tenth-degree increase in global air temperature.
Ajay Dhar, senior scientist at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG-Navi Mumbai) and who has visited India’s friendly station Antarctica 12 times for research, told Gujarat Samachar based on his extensive research and studies that the Earth’s electromagnetic field (Magnetic field) Meteorites from deep space fall more on the continent of Antarctica. Also, the land of Antarctica is hard and there is a long sheet of ice spread on it.
The land of Antarctica is getting wet due to melting ice. Due to this process, the meteorites present on the hard surface of the ice slide down through the ice. Additionally, melting ice can cause meteorites to drift and become trapped in rocks and stones in Antarctica.
The result will be that, depending on the speed at which the ice is melting in Antarctica due to climate change, by the end of 2050, about 3,00,000 to 600,000 meteorites deposited there will disappear. ice surface.
