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The Bermuda Triangle is a legendary part of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico the place dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances encompass some of these accidents, together with one through which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers grew to become disoriented whereas flying over the space ; the planes had been by no means discovered . The identify Bermuda Triangle refers to a area of ocean bordered by Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, and it was first delivered to public consideration again in the 1950s by a journalist named Edward Van Winkle Jones, who wrote a narrative for the Related Press about a big quantity of ships and planes that had disappeared in the area . When the Ellen Austin approached the foggy waters of the Sargasso Sea — an space of the Atlantic Ocean that overlaps with the Bermuda Triangle — the crew encountered a totally stocked, deserted ship. Seeing this as a chance ...

 An asteroid impact is also the stuff of science fact. There are obvious craters on Earth (and the moon) that show us a long history of large objects hitting the planet. The most famous asteroid ever is the one that hit Earth 65 million years ago. It's thought that this asteroid threw so much moisture and dust in to the atmosphere that it cut off sunlight, lowering temperatures worldwide and causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. In movies, an incoming asteroid is usually a very last-minute shock: a big, deadly rock hurtling right toward Earth like a bullet out of the darkness, with only weeks or days between its discovery and its projected impact. That is a real threat, according to an April 2019 presentation by NASA's Office of Planetary Defense that Live Science attended. But NASA believes that it's spotted most of the largest, deadliest objects that have even a small chance of striking Earth — the so-called planet killers. (Of course, there are probably plenty of smal...