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The World’s Oldest Asteroid Crater Has Finally Been Identified – And It May Have Changed Earth’s Climate
The Vredefort crater in South Africa, estimated to be 2.023 billion years old, was long considered Earth’s oldest impact structure. However, new research places Yarrabubba at least 200 million ...
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Vredefort crater (IMAGE)
The impactor formed Vredefort crater, what is today the biggest crater on our planet. Using updated simulation data, University of Rochester researchers discovered the impactor that formed ...
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What a 3.5 billion-year-old meteor crater tells us about the Earth
Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South Africa and is also the world’s biggest at over 155miles across.
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6 biggest asteroid strikes on Earth
They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.
Earth's oldest-known crater discovered in outback WA is 3.47 billion years old, study finds
The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.