Том: 21 , Год издания: 2019

On many territories of the Earth, the unnaturally flat extended surface areas are observed that are geomorphologically expressed relative to the adjacent areas and resembling a pattern of a planed-down tree in satellite images. A new hypothesis is proposed, explaining the formation of such a pattern due to the Earth capturing a massive satellite with a diameter exceeding 500 km, which in the pro- cess of rotation around the Earth along the downward trajectory at a high speed destructively affects the planet surface.