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Mystery Earth's Largest Gravitational Hole Bottom Indian Ocean

Mystery Earth's Largest Gravitational Hole Bottom Indian Ocean The Mystery of Earth's Largest Gravitational Hole at the Bottom of the Indian Ocean (Photo: Times of India) -  The gravitational hole at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is the largest on Earth, and this has been a mystery that has baffled scientists since the hole was discovered in 1948.  Now a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IIS) think they have found the answer. According to them, the hole in the Indian Ocean was caused by fragments from a sunken ocean or the bottom of another much older ocean.  In this mysterious part of the Indian Ocean, the gravitational pull is much weaker than anywhere else on Earth. This gravitational hole, is the largest (and deepest) gravitational anomaly in the world, and is officially known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL). The Geoid is a theoretical model of worldwide sea level, whose irregularities are related to variations in Earth's gravit

Research Reveals 99 Percent of Earth's Gold Buried in One Place

Research Reveals 99 Percent of Earth's Gold Buried in One Place  - It turns out that 99% of Earth's gold is stored in one location. However, humans cannot enjoy this gold because it is deep in the Earth's core.  "What we can conclude is that 99 percent of the Earth's gold content is in its core," said researcher Bernard Wood from Macquarie University.  Wood and his team managed to find the location of the gold through research. The research came from inspiration regarding asteroids that have a similar composition to Earth.  They measured the composition of carbonaceous chondrites in meteorites from the asterite. From there, the composition of the asteroid becomes a reference for measuring the composition of Earth's materials.  The results revealed that elements insoluble in molten iron would not exist in the Earth's core. So there are elements that are abundant in the crust compared to the core.  The research team's assumption is