Large crater appears at the 'end of the world'

By The Siberian Times reporter:  Mysterious 'gigantic' hole in remote region spotted by helicopters over gas-rich Yamal peninsula.
  The striking puncture in the earth is believed to be up to 80 metres wide but its depth is not estimated yet. A scientific team has been sent to investigate the hole and is due to arrive at the scene on Wednesday.
  The cause of its sudden appearance in Yamal - its name means the 'end of the world' in the far north of Siberia - is not yet known, though one scientific claim is that global warming may be to blame.
  There is additionally speculation it could be caused by a space object - perhaps a meteorite - striking earth or that it is a sinkhole caused by collapsing rock beneath the hole caused by as yet unknown factors.
  The giant hole appeared close to a forest some 30 kilometres from Yamal's biggest gas field Bovanenkovo.   Experts are confident that a scientific explanation will be found for it and that it is not - as one web claim suggested - evidence 'of the arrival of a UFO craft' to the planet...Continue reading...