Fact 105: Is Tooting near a volcano?
Fact 105: Is Tooting near a volcano?
Yes it is, however I am not only talking about Tooting in London uk I am also talking about the Mars crater also called Tooting because the crater is named helpfully after surprise, surprise, Tooting Village in London.
This is because the crater is less than 60km in diameter and in accordance with the International Astronomical Union's rules for planetary nomenclature (nomenclature is Latin and basically means choosing of names for thing), which specify that craters on Mars less than 60 km in diameter can be named after villages with a population less than 100,000 so because the crater is 27.2km or 28km they disided to name the crater Tooting.
The Tooting crater is 1,300km due West (270 degrees) Westward of a volcano on Mars called the Olympus Mons, Olympus Mons is estimated to still be an active volcano and could erupted sometime in the future.
Tooting Village is however about only 670.3km away from an Extinct volcano in Edinburgh, the Extinct volcano in question is the one were Edinburgh Castle is situated.
And there is a extinct volcano buried under clay (500 feet deep under ground) 81 miles from London in the village of Warboys, Cambridgeshire sits a volcano (Extinct) that dates back over 300 million years old.
The Extinct and underground volcano so it is technically only 85.0 miles (and 500feet) away from Tooting Village.
